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China’s melamine milk adulteration crisis highlights the challenges that arise as large well-capitalized companies procure raw materials from a diffused supply chain of scattered small farmers and milk collection stations. As milk prices climbed sharply in 2007 and companies branched out into...
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The following contribution describes how an E-collaboration platform may be used within new product development. In order to develop a new dairy product (a yoghurt dessert), a leading Austrian dairy co-operated with representatives from the Austrian University of Natural Resources and Applied...
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The ongoing internationalization of markets has become a major issue also for companies of the agribusiness …. Nevertheless, neither the degree of internationalization of agribusiness firms nor the internationalization …-performance relationship in the agribusiness sector have been analyzed thoroughly so far. To help fill this void, we use panel data compiled …
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Due to the nature of the food supply chain, an increase of the integration's degree in the chain may be an important … theoretical background showing the relationship between integration and performance. A description of the theoretical and … methodological aspects of performance measurement and its extension (including the integration aspect) was also made within the …
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on two related aspect: the integration among the agents and the adaptation in the face of emerging disturbances. The … integration or non-integration better facilitates ‘adaptive, sequential decision making’ in the sense of Williamson (Gibbon, 2005 … because of the degree of integration. The field research was carried out by documents analysis and interviews. The paper …
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The paper concerns the integration in food networks under a governance point of view. We conceptualize the integration …
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-food companies may be an increase of the integration's degree in the chain. Therefore, exploring the relationships among these … theoretical background showing relationship between integration and performance. A description of the theoretical and … methodological aspects of performance measurement and its extension (including the integration aspect) was also made in the paper …
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the primary aim of meeting domestic demand. Changes in ownership contribute to the strengthening of vertical integration …
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The International Food and Agribusiness Management Review is published quarterly by IFAMA. www.ifama.org. TEACHING …
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The aim of our research is to determine - on the grounds of the facts of an average dairy family farm – the necessary economic size to provide subsistence for a four member family, which solely has income from this activity. Our study used three different calculation models. The models...
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