TY - JOUR
T1 - Organic Supply Chain Collaboration: A Case Study in Eight EU Countries
AU - Naspetti, S.
AU - Lampkin, Nicolas Harry
AU - Nicholas-Davies, Pip
AU - Schultz, Matthias
AU - Zanoli, Raffaele
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors kindly acknowledge funding from the European Community for the Integrated Project ‘Improving quality and safety and reduction of cost in the European organic and “low input” food supply chains’ (QLIF-FP6-FOOD-CT-2003-506358). The article is the sole responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily reflect the European Commissions’ view.
PY - 2011/4/12
Y1 - 2011/4/12
N2 - This study aims at contributing to a better understanding of the linkage between supply chain performance and possible performance improvement with respect to food quality and safety. Therefore, the article addresses the question whether the level of collaborative planning and close supply chain relationships could help improve the quality and safety of organic supply chains. The study was conducted as part of the multi-disciplinary EU-wide survey of organic supply chains, carried out in eight European countries. In this article we report the results of the study regarding the structures and performance of six different organic supply chains in these eight European countries for: milk (CH, UK), apples (DE, CH), pork (UK, NL), eggs (DE, UK), wheat (HU, IT, FR) and tomatoes (IT, NL). In-depth interviews with key-informants were carried out in 2006 to investigate the structures, performance, and relationships within the supply chains. Results show a low level of collaboration among various actors especially in cost and benefit sharing. Highly integrated supply chains show higher collaboration especially in the domain of Decision Synchronization. Trust and collaboration appear to be related with increased performance, whereas the higher the perceived risk for quality and safety, the higher the probability of supply chain collaboration.
AB - This study aims at contributing to a better understanding of the linkage between supply chain performance and possible performance improvement with respect to food quality and safety. Therefore, the article addresses the question whether the level of collaborative planning and close supply chain relationships could help improve the quality and safety of organic supply chains. The study was conducted as part of the multi-disciplinary EU-wide survey of organic supply chains, carried out in eight European countries. In this article we report the results of the study regarding the structures and performance of six different organic supply chains in these eight European countries for: milk (CH, UK), apples (DE, CH), pork (UK, NL), eggs (DE, UK), wheat (HU, IT, FR) and tomatoes (IT, NL). In-depth interviews with key-informants were carried out in 2006 to investigate the structures, performance, and relationships within the supply chains. Results show a low level of collaboration among various actors especially in cost and benefit sharing. Highly integrated supply chains show higher collaboration especially in the domain of Decision Synchronization. Trust and collaboration appear to be related with increased performance, whereas the higher the perceived risk for quality and safety, the higher the probability of supply chain collaboration.
KW - supply chain management
KW - organic food industry
KW - food quality and safety
KW - Supply chain management
KW - Collaboration
KW - Performance
KW - Trust
KW - Food quality and safety
KW - Organic food industry
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U2 - 10.1080/10454446.2011.548733
DO - 10.1080/10454446.2011.548733
M3 - Article
SN - 1540-4102
VL - 17
SP - 141
EP - 162
JO - Journal of Food Products Marketing
JF - Journal of Food Products Marketing
IS - 2-3
ER -