...Maren Busch; Daniel Mühlrath; Christian Herzig Purpose The authors analysed fairness as an antecedent of trust to understand how trust building can be actively managed to facilitate collaboration in buyer–supplier relationships. Design/methodology/approach A case study was employed to buyer...

...Dušanka Gajdić; Herbert Kotzab; Kristina Petljak Purpose This paper identifies, evaluates and structures research that focuses on “collaboration” (C), “trust” (T) and “performance” (P) in the agri-food supply chain (AFSC) and reveals its intellectual foundation. It aims to synthesize research...

...Siyi Feng; Myles Patton; Diane E. Burgess Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors that influence beef farmers’ willingness to participate in supply chain collaboration initiatives and to identify attributes in formal and non-formal agreements that would encourage or discourage...

...Ana Procopio Schoen Purpose Research in institutional openness and collaboration-based innovation has advanced considerably in the last decade. The complexity and heterogeneity of innovation, however, turn the one-fits-all approach questionable and unveil the need to address several and different...

... and case studies that study approaches to improve compliance with public and private regulations through cooperative and collaborative approaches. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach It is a grounded qualitative study of what a number of individuals said in the course...

... knowledge. Consumer collaboration for knowledge exchange and diffusion of innovation (KEDI) safeguards food markets. The concept of communicative action is applied to conceptualize and analyze key elements for designing a collaborative food integrity intelligence system. Findings The model of market...

... for analyzing food supply networks with particular focus on food waste reduction. Such framings are applied in other supply systems, and requested by food supply researchers. Pegah Amani can be contacted at: pegah.amani@sp.se © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Responsiveness Collaboration...

... that collaboration with customers matter for product innovations in food SMEs while collaboration with competitors is more important for organizational innovations in this type of firm. In addition, collaboration with science base actors does not appear relevant to innovation in food SMEs, supporting previous works...

...Carel Nicolaas Bezuidenhout; Shamim Bodhanya; Linda Brenchley Purpose Sugar from cane remains an important economic contributor in many countries. A lack of collaboration has been identified as a key problem in many of these regions. To date, few sugar researchers have exploited the valuable...