This article analyses the effect of the East-European business environment on quality management as a means of operationalising chain management strategies. The particular focus on the Ukrainian agri-food business in combination with fifteen in-depth expert interviews reveals the infancy of...

This study explores the alignment between vertical coordination (VC) and horizontal coordination (HC) in Indonesian vegetable value chains. This alignment helps buyers to design efficient coordination mechanisms with regard to the production of safe and high-quality vegetables. We use a...

The aim of this study is to analyze the impact of governmental market interventions in Serbia, among them a wheat export ban, on the country's integration into the international wheat market and the domestic wheat-to-bread supply chain during the global commodity price peaks in 2007/08 and...

Supply Chain Management hat sich zu einem betriebswirtschaftlichen Fachgebiet mit besonders gravierendem Wandel entwickelt. Insbesondere werden bei einer Supply Chain grosse Verbesserungspotenziale vermutet. Hartmut Werner zeigt konkrete Wege zur Ausschöpfung dieser Optimierungsmöglichkeiten...