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| Vandermeulen, Valerie; Vuylsteke, Anne; Van Huylenbroeck, Guido. |
| Together with the evolution from the agro-industrial model to the sustainable rural development model (Roep and Wiskerke 2004), a part of the agro-food market has evolved from an anonymous, mass food market to a quality-food market. This shift is driven by factors, such as the changing relations between supply chain actors due to concentration in retail and processing, the growing importance of quality standards, considerable changes in consumer habits and preferences, the increasing attention for the multifunctional dimensions of agriculture and the establishment of new markets for public goods and services (Kirwan, Slee et al. 2003; Jahn, Zerger et al. 2007). As a consequence, the contemporary agro-food markets are more and more characterised by... |
| Tipo: Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Farm Management; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Production Economics. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/122011 |
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| Vuylsteke, Anne; Van Huylenbroeck, Guido. |
| This paper focuses upon the case of alternative food supply chains (AFSCs) as a "laboratory" for the implementation of sustainability concepts on a larger scale. To realize this type of upscaling, two important conditions should be fulfilled: the initiatives have to combine a performing internal organisation with the ability to understand and interact with the larger food system. To explore these concepts, the theory of hybrid organisations and the system innovation policy approach are discussed. Theory and empirical evidence learns that both concepts are complementary, as they both stress the importance of networking with actors that can be situated within or outside the supply chain. |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness; Industrial Organization. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6610 |
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| Vuylsteke, Anne; Van Huylenbroeck, Guido. |
| Collaboration between stakeholders in the agro-food sector is nowadays a common phenomenon. Despite the huge diversity observed, this paper argues that collective action always results in the establishment of a collective organization (whether formally organized or not), which is characterized by the presence of a coordination centre. This organism represents all partners united in the collective and performs tasks by order of the individual members and the group. From a theoretical point of view, all collective organizations qualify as hybrid organizations, which can be studied through the lens of Transaction Costs Economics. Hybrids governance structures are a large set of arrangements that are situated between markets and hierarchies. When organizing... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Collective action; Coordination mechanisms; Hybrid governance structures; Agribusiness. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/44263 |
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