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Adaptation in Food Networks: Theoretical Frame Work and Empirical Evidences

Martino, Gaetano; Frascarelli, Angelo - International European Forum on Innovation and System … - 2012

on two related aspect: the integration among the agents and the adaptation in the face of emerging disturbances. The … paper aims at addressing the problem on what are the role of the adaptation processes in the implementation of sustainable … strategies in Food Networks. Adaptation is a central problem of economic organisations (Williamson, 1985, 1991), and its …

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US Consumers’ Perception of Local and Organic Food: An Analysis Based on Means-End Chain Analysis and Word Association

Haas, Rainer; Sterns, James; Meixner, Oliver - International European Forum on Innovation and System … - 2013

The market of local and organic food is still a niche market in the USA, despite its strong growth rates. Both offer consumers an alternative to a globalized anonymous food supply chain. Yet local food and organic food seem to be overlapping and to some degree competing food concepts. While the...

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Hegyi, Adrienn; Homolka, Fruzsina; Sebők, András - International European Forum on Innovation and System … - 2013

Sustainability is arguably one of the greatest challenges to Hungary in the future. The question is how to meet this need and tackle this challenge that requires commitment from the different players of the supply chain. This aim of the work within the FP7 Salsa project was to detect, explore...

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Contracts Between Small Scale Soybean Farmers and the Biodiesel Industry in Brazil: An Application of Principal-Agent Model

Clemente, Felippe; Silva Júnior, Aziz Galvão da - International European Forum on Innovation and System … - 2013

A contract is considered incomplete when the optimal solution for a contractual problem requires some information from the parts which is not observable by one or both parts. This problem is found in the biodiesel production chain among small scale farmers and biodiesel companies in Brazil,...

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Drivers of Eco-Innovation in the Italian Wine Industry

Muscio, Alessandro; Nardone, Gianluca; Stasi, Antonio - International European Forum on Innovation and System … - 2013

The importance of eco-innovations for industry has been rising exponentially in recent years. However, even if recent trends show that firms are increasingly committed to eco-innovations, there is little knowledge on why and how companies integrate environmental sustainability into new product...

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Impacts of Improved Animal Welfare Standards on Competitiveness of EU Animal Production

Harvey, David; Hubbards, Carmen; Majewski, Edward; … - International European Forum on Innovation and System … - 2013

The paper presents results of the FP7 Econ-Welfare Project “Assessing the socio-economic consequences of measures promoting good animal welfare”. The paper illustrates the economic consequences at the farm level of indicative improvements in animal welfare conditions for pigs and cattle and...

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Empirical Findings from Dutch Food Industry

Vorst, Jack G.A.J. van der; Peeters, Lotte; Bloemhof, … - International European Forum on Innovation and System … - 2013

with environmental and social performance. Therefore, in 2012, we started a collaborative project on this topic named SCALE (Step Change in Agri-food Logistics Ecosystems). SCALE aims to improve the sustainability of food and drink supply chain logistics in the context of rising food demands,...

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Price Versus Non-price Incentives for Participation in Quality Labeling: The Case of the German Fruit Juice Industry

Herrmann, Roland; Bleich, Simon - International European Forum on Innovation and System … - 2013

Quality assurance and labeling play an important and increasing role in firms’ marketing strategies. In almost all cases, a price incentive has been stressed as the major incentive for firms to participate in such schemes. We argue here that important non-price incentives for participation in...

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Benefits through Utilising EPC Network Components in Service-Oriented Envi-ronments – an Analysis using the Example of the Food Industry

Tröger, Ralf; Reiche, Robert; Schiefer, Gerhard - International European Forum on Innovation and System … - 2013

readily available, and of the quality and diversity consumers expect. However, prevalent information systems (IS) of companies in the food industry are not ready to support further significant improve-ments. They especially lack the capability to exchange relevant information in an efficient...

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Lifting the Veil of Social Unrest about Food The Dynamics behind Transitions in Food Chains

Buurma, Jan; Hennen, Wil; van Mil, Eveline; Verwaart, Tim; … - International European Forum on Innovation and System … - 2012

This paper presents a novel approach to gain a deeper understanding of the forces driving sustainability transitions in food production and consumption. It follows a complex adaptive systems approach to study processes leading to sociotechnical innovations on a timescale of typically a decade....

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