It's a jungle out there: the strange animals of economic organization in agri-food value chains

This book aims to explore the variety in organizational forms that exists in the European agri-food sector, and to identify an appropriate theoretical framework that includes a set of conceptual instruments to analyse this variety. Moreover, this framework should be helpful in the exploration of the relationship between organizations and the regulatory domain. The book focuses on organizational forms under two perspectives. First, it underlines the variety in organizational forms and their internal complexity. Second, it includes a series of case studies from different theoretical perspectives that highlight diversity within the agri-food sector, spanning from the adoption of standards to producer organizations. The book then proposes a conceptual foundation that can help in the design of applied theoretical frameworks to address the variety and the complexity of the organizational modes in agri-food supply systems.

Finding our way in the jungle: insights from organization theory / C. Ménard -- Linnaeus in the jungle: configurational lenses for discerning forms of economic organization in agri-business / A. Grandori -- A three-tiered approach to the economics of hybrids: an application to the agricultural innovation sector / J.E. Hobbs -- Horizontal integration between farmers: governing cooperation through different enforcement mechanisms / A. Chlebicka, J. Falkowski and B. Łopaciuk-Gonczaryk -- Italian network contracts viewed from the perspective of transaction cost economics / F. Ventura, M.C. D'Arienzo and G. Martino -- Traceability standards and vertical coordination / S. Stranieri and A. Banterle -- Transactions in coffee and milk agri-food value chains: why measure? / J.P. de Souza and S.M.S. Bánkuti -- The apparent paradox of unadvertised private food safety standards / C. Russo, M.A. Perito and A. Di Fonzo -- Contract farming, a strange type of contract: more than obligation 'to give' / K. Watanabe, A.E. Lourenzani and S.M.S. Bankuti -- Contractual scope in the agri-food market: the case of protection consortia in the wine sector / L. Paoloni and M. Gioia -- Value in territorial branding, agro-food production and governance patterns: a case study / R. Furesi, F.A. Madau and P. Pulina -- Functioning of the dairy value-chain in Slovenia / Š. Bojnec -- Agricultural cooperation and corporate social responsibility: alternative approaches in a literature review / D. Toccaceli -- Concepts in European policy intervention and food exchange: a Delphi approach / G. Martino, J. Tóth and A. Frascarelli -- Collective arrangements in the agro-food supply chain: the case of the interbranch organization Tabacco Italia / S. Ciliberti and A. Frascarelli -- Interventionist policies and market failures of European wine regulations / P. Corsinovi and D. Gaeta -- Labelling strategies in the agri-food context / C. Riganelli and A. Marchini -- Short food supply chains and shared value on the multifunctional farm: an analysis of determinants / C. Nazzaro, G. Marotta and M. Stanco -- Policy and governance of payments for ecosystem services in agri-food value chains / F. Marangon and S. Troiano -- Dissonance in the food traceability regulatory environment and food fraud / M. Bitzios, L. Jack, S.C. Krzyzaniak and M. Xu.