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| Raynaud, Emmanuel; Sauvee, Loic; Valceschini, Egizio. |
| For many agricultural products, the quality of the final products strongly depends on different stages of the productive chain. This stresses the importance of relationships between quality signal owners and suppliers in the vertical chain. Based on a New Institutional Economics analysis, the goal of this paper is twofold: (i) to design a framework to study the links between quality signaling, coordination in the supply chains and the institutional environment, (ii) to conduct a comparative analysis to identify, compare and explain the modes of organization implemented for the governance of different quality signs. The general hypothesis is that, in order to assure the credibility of a quality signal, there must be an efficient alignment between quality... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Alignment; Credibility; Governance structures; Quality signals; Agribusiness; L14; L15; L22. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24917 |
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| Abdirahman, Zam-Zam; Sauvee, Loic. |
| The contemporary agrifood sectors have witnessed a rapid increase in the use of intangibles, i.e. inputs built upon information, knowledge and communication assets. Consequently firms, in their move towards competitiveness, try to innovate in line with these trends. Innovations in agrifood sectors were traditionally focused around new products and new technologies, and often seen as incremental. Innovations based upon intangibles need a broader view of what is innovation, especially in the context of food SMEs. Indeed food SMEs, which roles in the structuration and dynamism of the food economy in Europe is crucial, have at the same time difficulties and limitations in their innovativeness capacity for intangibles. The main objective of the communication is... |
| Tipo: Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/122026 |
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