It's a jungle out there : : the strange animals of economic organization in agri-food value chains / / edited by Gaetano Martino [and four others].

This book aims to explore the variety in organizational forms that exists in the European agri-food sector, and to identify an appropriate theoretical framework that includes a set of conceptual instruments to analyse this variety. Moreover, this framework should be helpful in the exploration of the...

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Place / Publishing House:Wageningen, The Netherlands : : Wageningen Academic Publishers,, 2017.
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (394 pages) :; illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Finding our way in the jungle: insights from organization theory / C. Ménard
  • Linnaeus in the jungle: configurational lenses for discerning forms of economic organization in agri-business / A. Grandori
  • A three-tiered approach to the economics of hybrids: an application to the agricultural innovation sector / J.E. Hobbs
  • Horizontal integration between farmers: governing cooperation through different enforcement mechanisms / A. Chlebicka, J. Falkowski and B. Łopaciuk-Gonczaryk
  • Italian network contracts viewed from the perspective of transaction cost economics / F. Ventura, M.C. D'Arienzo and G. Martino
  • Traceability standards and vertical coordination / S. Stranieri and A. Banterle
  • Transactions in coffee and milk agri-food value chains: why measure? / J.P. de Souza and S.M.S. Bánkuti
  • The apparent paradox of unadvertised private food safety standards / C. Russo, M.A. Perito and A. Di Fonzo
  • Contract farming, a strange type of contract: more than obligation 'to give' / K. Watanabe, A.E. Lourenzani and S.M.S. Bankuti
  • Contractual scope in the agri-food market: the case of protection consortia in the wine sector / L. Paoloni and M. Gioia
  • Value in territorial branding, agro-food production and governance patterns: a case study / R. Furesi, F.A. Madau and P. Pulina
  • Functioning of the dairy value-chain in Slovenia / Š. Bojnec
  • Agricultural cooperation and corporate social responsibility: alternative approaches in a literature review / D. Toccaceli
  • Concepts in European policy intervention and food exchange: a Delphi approach / G. Martino, J. Tóth and A. Frascarelli
  • Collective arrangements in the agro-food supply chain: the case of the interbranch organization Tabacco Italia / S. Ciliberti and A. Frascarelli
  • Interventionist policies and market failures of European wine regulations / P. Corsinovi and D. Gaeta
  • Labelling strategies in the agri-food context / C. Riganelli and A. Marchini
  • Short food supply chains and shared value on the multifunctional farm: an analysis of determinants / C. Nazzaro, G. Marotta and M. Stanco
  • Policy and governance of payments for ecosystem services in agri-food value chains / F. Marangon and S. Troiano
  • Dissonance in the food traceability regulatory environment and food fraud / M. Bitzios, L. Jack, S.C. Krzyzaniak and M. Xu.