Governing buyer–supplier relationships to foster relational rents in organic short food supply chains

Tatiane Pellin Cislaghi is currently a Professor in Management and International Trade at Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Rio Grande do Sul, Bento Gonçalves, Brazil. She holds a doctor degree in Administration from Unisinos University, Porto Alegre, Brazil. She was a visiting student in the Kassel University, Germany (2018). Her main research interests are related to governance of agri-food chains in an emerging country context, supply chain management, buyer-supplier relationship, inter-organizational relationship, inter-organizational governance, logistics. She has published in journals such as Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, among others.

Douglas Wegner is Professor at Fundação Dom Cabral, Brazil. He holds a doctor degree in Administration from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil. His research interests are inter-organizational relations, business networks, network competencies, and network governance. He has published in journals such as Journal of Small Business Management, International Journal of Emerging Markets, Journal of Cleaner Production, and International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research, among others.

Luciana Marques Vieira is currently a Professor in Operations Management and Sustainability at Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV-EAESP) in Sao Paulo, Brazil and a Senior Fellow at Kings College London, UK. She holds a PhD from the University of Reading and her main research interests are related to the governance of agri-food chains in emerging countries. She has published recently in journals such as Industrial Marketing Management, Journal of Cleaner Production, Supply Chain Management; International Journal of Emerging Markets, British Food Journal, Management of Environmental Quality, among others.

Gabriela Zanandrea is post-doctoral researcher in Administration at Unisinos, Porto Alegre, Brazil. PhD in Administration at University of Caxias do Sul, Caxias do Sul, Brazil. She was a visiting student in the University of Aveiro, Portugal in 2018. Her main research areas are knowledge management, absorptive capacity, innovation, and social innovation. She has published in journals such as The Journal of Technology Transfer, Journal of Cleaner Production, among others.