Quality management in food chains / edited by Ludwig Theuvsen ... [et al.].

• Author: European Association of Agricultural Economists. Seminar
• TeilnehmendeR: Theuvsen, Ludwig.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (512 p.)
• Notes: "The following book includes 38 papers contributed by participants in the EAAE Seminar on Quality Management and Quality Assurance in Food Chains held at the Georg-August-University of Goettingen in 2005."--P. 13.

Table of Contents

• Table of contents; Perspectives of quality management in modern agribusiness; Ludwig Theuvsen and Achim Spiller; Invited speakers; Economics of standard owners: competition as barrier to global harmonisation of food assurance systems; Kristian Möller; Façade and means of control: the use of ISO 9000 standards; Peter Walgenbach; Firm's costs and benefits of quality management and quality assurance systems; Firm's costs of traceability confronted with consumer requirements; Xavier Gellynck, Renata Januszewska, Wim Verbeke and Jacques Viaene
• The effect of transaction costs associated with certification of exports on the profitability of farming systems for Chilean small farmersPablo Villalobos1, Michel Leporati2, Luis Saez2 and Carlos Padilla1; Production costs of citrus growing in the Comunidad Valenciana (Spain): EurepGAP protocol versus standard production; Elena Maria Peris Moll and Juan Francisco Juliá Igual; The role of ISO standards in micro and small-scale food ingredient companies; Miriam Quintero Arellanes and Seamus O'Reilly; Company costs and benefits of organic processed food; Cristina Mora and Davide Menozzi
• The effects of certification costs on the success of a PDO/PGIGiovanni Belletti, Tunia Burgassi, Andrea Marescotti and Silvia Scaramuzzi; Strategic, organisational and human resource management aspects of quality management; Improving quality-related communication in food chains with Quality Function Deployment: the dairy industry; Martina Peupert and Ludwig Theuvsen; Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) as a decision support tool within a quality information system in pork production chains; Andreas Gödderz1, Thomas Schmitz2, Adriane Mack1 and Brigitte Petersen1
• Quality assurance in agribusiness: evaluating 'Qualität und Sicherheit' and 'QM Milch' from a Total Quality Management perspectiveLudwig Theuvsen and Martina Peupert; Regional quality programs: relevance, objectives and strategies; Oliver Poignée and Gerhard Schiefer; Development of a process oriented management system based on a data bank: an approach to successfully fulfil quality requirements in food industry; Hartmut F. Binner and Christiane Jansen; Network management for dairy productivity and quality in Ethiopia; Marijke D'Haese1, Gian-Nicola Francesconi1 and Ruerd Ruben2
• Organisational process alternatives for process simulation in agri-food processing and trade: the case of the grain chainThomas Hannus, Volker Jahn, Oliver Poignée and Gerhard Schiefer; Maintaining organic integrity: tackling fraud in organics; Jochen Neuendorff and Ulrich Fischer; Consumers' expectations of quality assurance and management systems; Food quality signals and customer confusion: is there a relevance for the marketing of food products?; Rainer Kühl and Wiebke Schulz; Brands as quality signals in the meat market: lessons from the poultry sector; Maren Lüth and Achim Spiller
• Food quality from a consumer's perspective