Whether China's low fertility rate is the consequence of the country's strict population control policy is a puzzling question. This paper attempts to disentangle the Chinese population control policy's impacts on the fertility rate from socioeconomic factors using the synthetic control method...

China’s traditional culture makes rural women and men take on different family responsibilities. We use the 2014 ‘China Family Panel Studies’ (CFPS) data to empirically study the impact of children care and elderly care on rural married women going out to work, and explore the welfare...

This article focuses on the problem: what external (stakeholder) and internal (structural/organizational) factors drive companies inthe food- and agribusiness towards innovative environmental management? Innovative companies are those considered to have adopted asupply-chain perspective, instead...

The present paper focuses on the perceived quality of information exchange between government and business (G2B) in the field of environmental reporting in the Dutch agrifood industry. It seems most important for environmental performance enhancement (a concept that includes the quality of...

This s tudy at tempt s to empirically inves tigate the effect of guanxinetworks on buyer - seller relationships and on firm performance invegetable indus t ry in P.R. China. We interviewed 167 vegetable producersand 84 companies to tes t our conceptual relationship mo del. Resultsdemons t rate...

This paper aims at comparing the innovative potential of leading food processing companies inemerging and developed economies. We asked ourselves how the clearly differing economicand social conditions of two areas that are only comparable in terms of their number ofinhabitants (about 16 to 18...

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...

This paper aims to analyze the effectiveness of the different cluster organization functions (services, activities and information sources) of Food Valley Organization in the Dutch agifood innovation system, as evaluated by its member companies. It is concluded that, in accordance with cluster...