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| Bremmers, Harry J.; Poppe, Krijn J.; Wijnands, Jo H.M.; van der Meulen, Bernd M.J.. |
| The goal of this paper is to assess the effect of regulatory burdens in the European dairy industry on its competitiveness. A theoretical foundation is provided by transaction cost economics and total quality management insights. The effects of legislation on administrative requirements and competitiveness are supposed to be mediated by impacts on innovativeness, company strategy, food safety system availability, as well as the available information & communication capabilities. We will connect to previous research (Wijnands et al., 2007) and the findings therein. Four sub-questions are addressed: • what is the relationship between administrative burdens, innovation and competitiveness? • what is the relationship between administrative burdens, food... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Dairy industry; Competitiveness; Administrative burdens; Food safety; Labelling; Livestock Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/44275 |
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| Poppe, Krijn J.; Wijnands, Jo H.M.; van der Meulen, Bernd M.J.; Bremmers, Harry J.. |
| Globalization is an important issue in the food industry, although most food is still locally produced and consumed. Many small and medium enterprises characterize the industry. Results of WTO negotiations intensify the international competition, in which the EU and USA are the largest players. Countries like Brazil, India and China are gaining market share. This raises the following research questions: 1. How competitive are the EU and US food industry and their sub-sectors? 2. Which role plays innovation and legislation in the competitiveness of the industry? 3. How will the competitiveness develop under future globalization and trade liberalization? The goal of this study is to fill these knowledge gaps. |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness; International Relations/Trade. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/9919 |
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| Bremmers, Harry J.; Haverkamp, Derk-Jan; Sabidussi, Anna; Omta, S.W.F. (Onno). |
| This article focuses on the problem: what external (stakeholder) and internal (structural/organizational) factors drive companies in the food- and agribusiness towards innovative environmental management? Innovative companies are those considered to have adopted a supply-chain perspective, instead of a focus on the single business unit. We propose that innovativeness is associated with stakeholder wishes (the government, the public environmental policy being a major influential factor), in combination with structural characteristics of the firm (like R&D-efforts, culture and managerial competences). We surveyed 492 companies in 2002, to get insight into the causes of innovativeness in the Dutch agri-food sector, and supplemented this data by means of a... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Environmental management; Innovation; Governmental policy; Stakeholder influences; Agricultural and Food Policy; Environmental Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/48328 |
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| Bremmers, Harry J.; Omta, S.W.F. (Onno). |
| 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 information given to stakeholders in our view) that companies are entangled in a network of intermediary institutions (branch organizations, covenants, existence of chain leaders etc.). It seems that that these mediating institutions are very instrumental in translating the governmental message to the companies. The companies choose the (related to the development of internal care) improvement of electronic reporting as the most promising innovation for the G2B... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness; Environmental Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/34409 |
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| Bremmers, Harry J.; Sabidussi, Anna. |
| The problem we address in this paper is that in projects focusing on public-private cooperation to stimulate innovation in the Netherlands, initiatives often lack continuation after the study-phase. We extracted possible influencing variables from business and (transaction) cost economic theorizing, stakeholder and capability theory. Moreover, we used measures for classifying projects with respect to financial interdependencies between participants. We supposed that project characteristics influence managerial behavior to continue or stop. We studied 28 projects (20 supply chain projects and 8 biological product development projects). Our aim was to explore the barriers and success factors for these co-innovation projects: innovation as a cooperative... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Agricultural Finance; Marketing; Co-innovation; Food industry; Supply chains; Investments. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/49224 |
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