The role of adverse economic environment and human capital on collaboration within agri-food supply chains

Grammatoula Papaioannou, Anne-marie Mohammed, Stella Despoudi, George Saridakis, Thanos Papadopoulos

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Abstract

This paper examines the role of adverse economic conditions and human capital on different types of collaboration within agri-food supply chains. Data was collected from the Greek agricultural sector, covering periods of economic hardship. The results reveal that the impact of adverse economic conditions on the collaborative constructs of goal congruence, decision synchronization, incentive alignment, resource sharing and joint knowledge creation is nonlinear, specifically an inverted U for all of them. For collaboration constructs of information sharing and collaborative communication, the results reveal that under adverse economic conditions, the farmers do not collaborate. We also show that aspects of human capital such as age, education and farming experience affect collaboration. Our contribution lies in investigating the potential non-linear relationship between adverse economic conditions and various types of collaboration. Therefore, this study provides several managerial implications and insight for policymakers, while filling a crucial gap in the literature due to the limited existing studies that consider the impact of adverse economic conditions on agri-food supply chains.
Original languageEnglish
Article number102077
JournalInternational Journal of Information Management
Volume52
Early online date6 Feb 2020
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jun 2020

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© 2020, Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Keywords

  • Adverse economic environment
  • Agri-food chains
  • Human capital
  • Information sharing
  • Supply chain collaboration

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