Staal Wästerlund, Dianne and Kronholm, Thomas
(2014).
Market analysis of harvesting services engaged by private forest owners in Sweden.
I/In: Biennal Meeting of the Scandinavian Society of Forest Economics, 21-24 May 2014, Uppsala, Sweden.
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Abstract
The forest industry in several Nordic countries is heavily dependent on the timber supply of the non-industrial private forest owners. This study focused on the behaviour of forest owners on the timber market when they chose a timber procurement organization. The study was made with a survey among forest owners that during the year 2011 notified the Swedish Forest Agency that a final felling would be performed on their forest property by way of their timber procurer. The survey was answered by 418 forest owners (79% male and 21% female). It was found that there was no difference in age distribution between the forest owners in the sample compared to the total age distribution of forest owners in Sweden. Harvesting was more common on large properties. Half of the forest owners had made timber deals with other timber procurement organizations before. Earlier research suggested that forest owners do not analyse the market, but this study suggest that a change may have occurred. Although a majority of the timber deals were made on the initiative of the forest owner, 17.2% of the deals were based on a tender of the forest owner and this concerned mainly large timber deals. One in four of the forest owners experienced problems, mainly related to how the harvesting operation was performed. Female forest owners, absentee owners and share owners experienced significantly more problems. The results indicate that the forest industry may need to intensify their efforts to learn and understand forest owners better, especially with the new generation forest owners, to maintain their level of timber procurement from the private forest sector.
Authors/Creators: | Staal Wästerlund, Dianne and Kronholm, Thomas |
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Title: | Market analysis of harvesting services engaged by private forest owners in Sweden |
Series Name/Journal: | Scandinavian forest economics |
Year of publishing : | 2014 |
Depositing date: | 12 January 2016 |
Number: | 45 |
Page range: | 111-119 |
Number of Pages: | 9 |
Place of Publication: | Uppsala |
Publisher: | Scandinavian Society of Forest Economics |
ISSN: | 0355-032X |
Language: | English |
Publication Type: | Conference Paper (Paper) |
Refereed: | No |
Article category: | Scientific peer reviewed |
Version: | Published version |
Full Text Status: | Public |
Agris subject categories.: | E Economics, development, and rural sociology > E10 Agricultural economics and policies K Forestry > K50 Processing of forest products |
Subjects: | (A) Swedish standard research categories 2011 > 4 Agricultural Sciences > 401 Agricultural, Forestry and Fisheries > Forest Science (A) Swedish standard research categories 2011 > 5 Social Sciences > 502 Economics and Business > Economics (A) Swedish standard research categories 2011 > 5 Social Sciences > 502 Economics and Business > Business Administration |
Agrovoc terms: | timber, consumer behaviour, harvesting |
Keywords: | timber procurement, customer relations, harvesting services, loyalty |
URN:NBN: | urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-e-3167 |
Permanent URL: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-e-3167 |
ID Code: | 12844 |
Faculty: | S - Faculty of Forest Sciences |
Department: | (S) > Dept. of Forest Resource Management (NL, NJ) > Dept. of Forest Resource Management |
Deposited By: | SLUpub Connector |
Deposited On: | 12 Jan 2016 10:47 |
Metadata Last Modified: | 09 Sep 2020 14:17 |
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