Industrial agriculture and its technological package (intensive farming, mechanization, use of chemicals) are no longer in position to ensure food security (Altieri et al., 2012). To overcome the strongly negative externalities produced by this model, agroecological transition may be considered...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to suggest countermeasures to reduce the damage of manufacturers in halal industries and to increase the transparency of the halal market along with raising some problems of halal supply chain management (HSCM). Design/methodology/approach – To achieve...

We examine the effect of social capital on buyer-supplier relationships. We report evidence that firms make larger relationship-specific investments when their supply chain partners are headquartered in states with high social capital. This result is more pronounced in environments where supply...