Different organizational arrangements have supported the adoption of sustainable-oriented
innovations (SOIs) in the agri-food industry. However, despite the promises of SOIs, diffusion …

Purpose The current competitive system, complex and rapidly changing, knowledge
represents one of the main strategic resources for organizations. Agri-food organizations …

The variety of solutions to organize economic activities is striking, and underexplored. This
paper proposes a framework that combines transaction cost and relational contracts models …

Purpose The aim of the paper is to investigate the determinants leading firms to choose
among different voluntary standards within food supply chains. In specific, the authors …

Agri-food cooperatives evolved towards an increasing diversity of cooperative models,
understood as modes of horizontal and vertical coordination of the value chain. This …

Purpose This editorial article introduces and analyzes a variety of new organizational forms
that rapidly emerged in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe in the latest two …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to present a “network” framing of food supply
arrangements. Such frameworks have been asked for in previous research as supplements …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss characteristics of organic food value chain
governance and policy tools that can increase the supply of good quality of agri-products …

The agribusiness sector represents an economic sector of particular importance and with the
highest employment rate. The sector is very complex due to the characteristics of the …

Increasing consumer consciousness along with urbanization, trade globalization, and agro-
industrialization in the last few years has led to an exponential growth of sustainability in …