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Non-price competition is increasingly important in world food markets. Recently, the expression export sophistication has been introduced in the economic literature to refer to a wide set of attributes that increase product value. An index has been proposed to measure sophistication in an...
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preferred quality and safety attributes, retail forms and retail outlets for major livestock products and by type of consumers …
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The paper proposes a model in which it is hypothesized that firm characteristics influence both costs and benefits of … costs and benefits on the one hand and perceived actual outcomes on the other, and is tested in a series of regression … impacted by firm size and the number of quality management systems certified, while actual overall benefits only by firm size …
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In recent decades the northwestern part of Germany (Weser-Ems region) has come to focus on intensive pork production. This has led to public outrage about the disposal of biological waste, farmers’ complaints about the high cost of leasing land, soaring risks of animal diseases, and the...
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other food attributes such as quality, integrity, and safety. When (re)designing food supply-chain networks, from a … concept ‘quality controlled logistics’ (QCL) hypothesizes that if product quality in each step of the supply chain can be … in higher product availability, constant quality, and less product losses. The paper discusses opportunities of using …
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This paper is concerned with the role of network administrative organizations (NAOs) in the development of social capital in inter-organizational networks aiming at supporting their members to innovate in the food sector through interacting with one another. A multi-case study approach is used...
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Market orientation (MO) – which is the propensity of a firm to collect and utilise information from the market – is an important leverage of competitive advantage. This paper helps to better understand why some owner-managers engage with market intelligence why others simply do not. The...
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sustainable regional netchains, focussing on chain governance mechanisms (coordination mechanisms, quality management systems …
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The present paper aims at answering the question how cluster organization functions are implemented in a high-tech, a medium to high-tech and a low to medium-tech cluster. Data were collected by semi-structured interviews from three clusters in the Netherlands, an agri-food cluster (as an...
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Firms in the agri-food industry are embedded in a system of institutions, regulations and policies that shape their economic environment and affect their conduct and performance. Changes in this system can propose new challenges for the firms that need to adequately and efficiently change and...
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