Abstract
Olive oil is one of the main agricultural products of the countries that make up the Mediterranean basin. The low profitability of this sector of activity and the growing challenges of an increasingly turbulent market force the sector to search for more efficient organization. The aim of this paper is to determine the organisational and technological factors associated with the most economically efficient Tunisian olive-growing organisations. To this end, firstly the Data Envelopment Analysis method has been used to establish a hierarchy of the most efficient organizations. Secondly, the Qualitative Comparative Analysis method has been used, which allows us to establish the relationships of variables that explain the highest levels of economic efficiency. The results obtained show that the academic training of the top manager, training in information technology, the age of the organisation and the existence of plans and budget items for the adoption of information and communication technologies are variables that explain this greater efficiency.
Highlights
Olive oil is a basic product of the so-called “Mediterranean diet”
It should be noted that 95% of the Tunisian olive grove is a traditional crop, cultivated on dry land and with almost no input of chemical fertilizers, which has facilitated its conversion to the organic system
The results of the BCC_O efficiency analysis show that a very small group of organisations can be considered efficient, namely 13.33 percent. Characterizing these organizations with higher values of economic efficiency it is observed that they respond to large entities, which develop a greater control over the value chain, as is the case of the State’s agro-complexes
Summary
Olive oil is a basic product of the so-called “Mediterranean diet”. The world production of olive oil presents a continuous tendency of growth due to the technological improvements, the extension of the irrigation system and the gradual increase of the olive grove surface (Parras et al, 2013). In Tunisia the olive oil sector plays a very important role, both at the economic level and at the environmental and social levels. The olive grove occupies 36% of the total arable land and 79% of the surface dedicated to arboriculture. Tunisia is positioned as one of the largest producers and exporters of organic olive oil in the world (Ben Abdallah et al, 2018)
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