It was expected that price liberalisation and privatisation in transition economies would spontaneously result in the necessary institutions that underpin Western market economies. However, these institutions are not developing as expected. The objective of the paper is to understand why these...

Despite growing interest in meat traceability systems, very little research has been done on consumer needs and perception of traceability. This gap is partly filled by the present study of consumer perception of meat traceability in Belgium, based on cross-sectional data collected in June 2001....

The ornamental plant cultivation could benefit from networking, as the locus of innovation is no longer the individual farm, but increasingly the network within which the farm is embedded. The main contribution of this paper is to shed light on the relation between networking and innovation and...