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Purpose Journals in business logistics, operations management, supply chain management, and business strategy have initiated ongoing calls for Big Data research and its impact on research and practice. Currently, no extant research has defined the concept fully. The purpose of this paper is to...
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Quality considerations are increasingly important drivers of production and coordination choices for players in the agrofood chain. Incentive contracts between farmers and processors, shippers, and other buyers are an increasingly popular means of coordinating to improve food quality. This...
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In recent years, European farmers have been facing two new phenomena: agricultural commodity price volatility and a decrease in agricultural added value. These issues led the High Level Forum to censure low transparency in relationships between firms and frequently unfair commercial practices,...
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The relevance of quality and typical food as strength for Rural Local Systems (rls) is widely recognized in literature (Antonioli Corigliano, 1999; Brunori, 1999; Pacciani et al., 2001; Cecchi, 2002). Generally speaking, the chance of a rls to build a competitive advantage often depends on the specificities...
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In recent years, large food distributors poured considerable effort in the definition of private standards of food safety for their products. Despite these efforts, medium and large retailers have yet to begin advertising to their consumers the adoption of such standards and, in doing so, do not...
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the efficiency of risk management and identifies the factors (personal, institutional, dimensional, technological, and … natural) of governance choice. Next, it presents stages in the analysis of risk management and the improvement of public … intervention in the governance of risk. Finally, it identifies the contemporary opportunities and challenges for risk governance in …
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of agriculture. But fragmented and unclear data governance arrangements may weaken farmers’ willingness to adopt digital …
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should be nowadays replaced with a network-oriented view. Closer insight into the concept of systemic risk can refer to the … have disastrous effects and cause extreme damage as the number of network nodes goes to infinity. Strongly interconnected …
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We examine incentives for network-specific investment and consider the implications for network governance. We model a … two-sided market in which participants making payments over a network platform can invest in a technology that reduces the … marginal cost of using the platform. A network effect results in multiple equilibria -- either all agents invest and use of the …
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