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The food industry is becoming an interconnected system with a large variety of complex relationships, reflected in the market place by the formation of (virtual) Food Supply Chain Networks (FSCN) via alliances, horizontal and vertical co-operation, forward and backward integration in the supply...

Author(s)
Hsiao, H. I.; Vorst, J. G. A. J. van der; Omta, S. W. F.
Publisher
Wageningen Academic Publishers, Wageningen, Netherlands
Citation
International agri-food chains and networks: management and organization, 2006, pp 135-150
AbstractFull Text

Implementing a supply chain information system (SCIS) incurs organizational and technical complexities. For managing these complexities, information system researchers have identified generic critical success factors. However, CSFs are abstract and, therefore, difficult to use in practice. To...

Author(s)
Denolf, J. M.; Trienekens, J. H.; Wognum, P. M.; Schütz, V.; Vorst, J. G. A. J. van der; Omta, S. W. F.
Publisher
University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Citation
International Journal on Food System Dynamics, 2018, 9, 1, pp 79-100
Abstract

Operations management in food supply networks is especially complex due to the variability of primary inputs and the perishability of products. In order to prevent problems in food quality and operations, early warning and proactive control systems are required. This paper describes a method to...

Author(s)
Li, Y.; Kramer, M. R.; Beulens, A. J. M.; Vorst, J. G. A. J. van der
Publisher
Wageningen Academic Publishers, Wageningen, Netherlands
Citation
International agri-food chains and networks: management and organization, 2006, pp 163-177
Abstract

This book contains the 2 keynote presentations and the 116 papers presented at the 5th International Conference on Chain and Network Management in Agribusiness and the Food Industry. The papers focus on the paradoxes caused by conflicting interests in the fields of economics and ethics, technology...

Author(s)
Trienekens, J. H.; Omta, S. W. F.
Publisher
Wageningen Academic Publishers, Wageningen, Netherlands
Citation
Paradoxes in food chains and networks. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Chain and Network Management in Agribusiness and the Food Industry, Noordwijk, Netherlands, 6-8 June 2002, 2002, pp 1165 pp.
Abstract

This paper investigates the factors that stimulate environmental pro-activeness of food companies. The goals are: (1) to assess the relative importance of factors that stimulate this and (2) to give advice on governmental policy change, to stimulate companies going further than mere compliance with ...

Author(s)
Haverkamp, D. J.; Bremmers, H. J.; Omta, S. W. F.
Publisher
Wageningen Academic Publishers, Wageningen, Netherlands
Citation
International agri-food chains and networks: management and organization, 2006, pp 343-355
Abstract

This paper explores short food supply chains as alternatives for conventional food supply chains within a small-scale food processing context. Supporting short food supply chains at local level is a way to promote the viability of rural areas and sustain the national food strategy. A special focus...

Author(s)
Forsman, S.; Paananen, J.
Publisher
Wageningen Academic Publishers, Wageningen, Netherlands
Citation
Paradoxes in food chains and networks. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Chain and Network Management in Agribusiness and the Food Industry, Noordwijk, Netherlands, 6-8 June 2002, 2002, pp 153-164
Abstract

In this paper the measure of efficiency is used as an indicator of performance in the food supply chain. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is used to evaluate the technical and scale efficiency of Dutch vegetable supply chains considering the final distribution. The objective of this study is to...

Author(s)
Aramyan, L.; Ondersteijn, C. J. M.; Wijnands, J. H. M.; Lansink, A. G. J. M. O.; Kooten, O. van
Publisher
Wageningen Academic Publishers, Wageningen, Netherlands
Citation
Dynamics in chains and networks: Proceedings of the sixth International Conference on chain and network management in agribusiness and the food industry, Ede, 27-28 May 2004, 2004, pp 443-449
Abstract

A systematic analysis of European and Austrian legal documents identified a surprising multitude of binding objectives for sustainable food chain management. Their systematization illustrates that ecological objectives are more frequent and more detailed than economic and social ones. A consistency ...

Author(s)
Penker, M.; Wytrzens, H. K.
Publisher
Wageningen Academic Publishers, Wageningen, Netherlands
Citation
Paradoxes in food chains and networks. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Chain and Network Management in Agribusiness and the Food Industry, Noordwijk, Netherlands, 6-8 June 2002, 2002, pp 188-200
Abstract

This paper analyses the citrus agri-food system in Brazil based in the channels of distribution, transaction cost economics and contracts referential. Within this analysis a specific transaction was emphasized, between the industry that processes the juice and the beverage industry, with the...

Author(s)
Val, A. M. do; Neves, M. F.
Publisher
Wageningen Academic Publishers, Wageningen, Netherlands
Citation
Paradoxes in food chains and networks. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Chain and Network Management in Agribusiness and the Food Industry, Noordwijk, Netherlands, 6-8 June 2002, 2002, pp 997-1008
Abstract

This paper makes a contribution to increasing the probability of success in product innovation and market launch in the agrifood chain by identifying and considering the factors that appear to determine success rate. First, different strands of literature are integrated in a conceptual model in...

Author(s)
Graaff, R. de; Stijnen, D.; Scheer, F. P.; Martins, F.; Diederen, P.
Publisher
Wageningen Academic Publishers, Wageningen, Netherlands
Citation
Paradoxes in food chains and networks. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Chain and Network Management in Agribusiness and the Food Industry, Noordwijk, Netherlands, 6-8 June 2002, 2002, pp 317-328

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