There is growing recognition that sustainable innovation is not necessarily about new technologies, but about new or adapted organisational models, behaviours, and networks. How people engage in or with innovation is driven by values, but values diff...
Environmental supply-chain governance increasingly requires firms to trace climate accountability across buyer–supplier relationships. This study examines whether downstream customer climate pressure is associated with suppliers’ green su...
The primary sector is particularly important in Greece, especially considering the country’s current financial crisis, which has lasted since 2010. In an innovative way, this paper investigates the role of Contractual Agriculture as a tool for...
Agrarian cultural landscapes depend not only on the symbolic value of place but also on the viability of the producers who sustain landscape-bearing practices. This study asks which indigenous rice value-chain pathway is most supportable in the near...
This study examines the association between Open Government Data and manufacturing servitization from a value-chain perspective. Using panel data for A-share listed manufacturing firms registered in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region during...
Agricultural and forested landscapes in Africa are changing rapidly in response to socio-economic and environmental pressures. Integrated landscape approaches provide an opportunity for a more holistic and coordinated resource management strategy thr...
Saudi Arabia’s Arabica coffee is produced almost entirely by smallholder farmers. Although the local production meets only a small share of national consumption, the sector has expanded substantially in recent years under national development i...
Golden camellia is a highly valued commercial plant owing to its flowers’ medicinal substances. One species of golden camellia, Camellia quephongensis Hakoda et Ninh, is used as a non-timber forest product for value-chain forestry (VCF) in Que...
This study examines sustainability and gender dynamics of coffee value-chain development intervention in Ethiopia. The data were collected from male and female farmers and other stakeholders using key informant interviews, focus group discussions, an...
As a national treasure, architectural heritage carries multiple value dimensions such as history, technology, art, and culture. With the increasing demand for architectural heritage protection and utilization, the traditional static digital model of...
The importance and complexity of the problems associated with coordinating multiple organizations to configure value propositions for customers has drawn the attention of multiple disciplines. In an effort to clarify and consolidate terms, this conce...
Mass individualized production refers to the mass production of individualized products. It becomes important for delivering a personalized customer experience in the Industrial Revolution 4.0 era. Developing seamless value chain integration between...
Sustainable agri-food value chains depend on the capacity of smallholders to participate in markets in stable, remunerative and upgrade-oriented ways, yet in conflict-affected and politically constrained settings this capacity is weakened by mobility...
Specialty agriculture can provide an important foundation for rural economic diversification, but its sustained development does not necessarily depend on the continuous expansion of cultivated land. This study examines the development of the rose-ba...
Access to credit is essential for transforming South Africa’s agricultural sector, particularly in enhancing value chain sustainability. This study investigated the role of credit access in supporting smallholder farmers’ value chain sust...
The Western and Central Pacific Ocean (WCPO) supports the largest tuna fishery in the world and provides most of the global catch of albacore, bigeye, skipjack, and yellowfin tuna. The WCPO tuna fisheries are critical for the development prospects of...
As a consequence of past decades of extensive afforestation in Norway, mature forest volumes are increasing. National forestry politics call for sustainable and efficient resource usage and for increased regional processing. Regional policies seek to...
How does a firm’s value chain digitalization contribute to its innovation in value chains? This study investigates innovation activities in value chains from a combination of distributed innovation perspective and technology affordance theory....
A growing body of research is identifying and quantifying environmental, health and social externalities in agrifood systems and proposing measures to address these. However, relatively little empirical attention has been given to the factors that in...
Ensuring the sustainability of agriculture-related industries requires not only expanding value added but also maintaining stable value creation and adaptive capacity under changing economic conditions. This study examines the economic and organizati...
On the one side, the operational expenses of mining enterprises are showing an upward trend; and on the other side, conventional mining fleet management systems (FMSs) are falling short in addressing the high-dimensionality, stochasticity, and autono...
Although the GDP of the fishery sector accounts for less than 0.3% of Taiwan’s GDP, there are many secondary and tertiary industries related to fisheries that add great value to the country’s economy. Therefore, when analyzing and calcula...
Circular Economy is the solution for the current environmental crisis, representing a huge economic opportunity to build new sustainable businesses. However, many barriers need to be faced for its implementation at industrial scale—firstly, the...
The European Union Regulation (EU) 2015/2283 on novel foods has created new opportunities for the valorization of marine by-products within the framework of the circular bioeconomy and sustainable blue economy. Refined shrimp peptide concentrate (RSP...
In recent years, the interest in academic research in the field of the value chain has increased rapidly. However, there is a lack of bibliometric and visualization research on this subject. This paper aims to analyze the main trends of the value cha...
[Objective] Digital infrastructure, with its fundamental and public good characteristics, can have a significant impact on export trade. This paper aims to analyze the impact and mechanism of digital infrastructure construction on the added value of...
The purpose of this research is to develop a value chain management model for agricultural eco-innovation that can encompass different aspects to create value. It employs the Graphical Evaluation and Review Technique (GERT), which translates the rema...
In Kenya, there is an urgent need to strengthen domestic rice production to improve food security. To achieve this, it is necessary to develop a value chain of competitive rice varieties that creates new value over and above that of conventional vari...
Although Ethiopia has an enormous agroecological potential for beekeeping, only 10% of it is realized. As its conventional smallholder production calls for improvement in market relationships, this paper aims at an in-depth analysis of the honey valu...
Inner Mongolia is a key region for China’s clean energy production and a demonstration base for modern coal chemical industry production. However, modern coal chemical industry development in this region faces many problems, such as complex dow...
How is learning-oriented participation in global value chains (GVCs) associated with firm performance, and what role does capability upgrading play? Drawing on GVC upgrading and dynamic-capabilities research, this study retains the four established u...
Flexibility is increasingly recognized as a key enabler of a secure, efficient, and decarbonized electricity system. In Norway, extended electrification of heating and transport, full smart meter coverage, and growing grid constraints create a strong...
The livestock sector, as a part of the traditional food system in Georgia, occupies a considerable portion of the national economy. Though smallholder farmers are the key suppliers at the primary stage in the food value chain, the empowerment of smal...
The forest products industries play a vital role in the economic, social, and environmental well-being of the Lake States in the United States. While various economic contribution analyses of forest products industries have been conducted to highligh...
This piece serves as the guest editorial of the Special Issue on the ‘Open Innovation in Value Chain for Sustainability of Firms’. Firstly, this editorial piece asks whether it is possible for firms to sustain their performance forever. Then, it revi...
Culinary micro-, small-, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) play a critical role in socio-economic sustainability, yet operate under heightened risks related to product quality, food safety, and business reputation. Although research on collaborati...
Improved agricultural value chains linking rural and urban areas can provide opportunities to initiate development interventions. This paper was aimed at mapping the value chain of cauliflower and tomato along with the identification of internal and...
In the past, Malaysia’s coconut sector faced several difficulties and upheavals related to the economy. However, as a result of the EU’s decision to oppose the cultivation of palm oil due to worries about forest clearing and environmental...
Agriculture plays a fundamental role in ensuring global food security in the context of a growing population; however, it is also responsible for the substantial consumption of natural resources and greenhouse gas emissions. In this context, the adop...
The livestock sector underpins food security, employment, and rural livelihoods across the Southern African Development Community (SADC), contributing up to 50% of agricultural GDP and supporting more than 60% of rural households. Yet climate change...
A new manufacturing mode, called social manufacturing, has been developing widely, and employed in many enterprises across the business value chain in recent years. Faced with this increasing dynamic, both enterprises and customers have to be more aw...
To service high-value international markets, many agrifood value chains in developing countries are required to transform to meet the strict quality and safety standards. This transformation process has become further complicated by increased sustain...
Pharmaceutical packaging is a complex group of products, the main purpose of which is to protect the medicine and forward information. Pharmaceutical packaging waste is generated and accumulated along the various phases and practices of the value cha...
In the context of “carbon neutral”, distributed energy, including photovoltaic power generation and energy storage systems, is developing rapidly. Meanwhile, the new generation of information technology, such as “Cloud computing, Bi...
This paper proposes a framework for identification of business models in smallholder cattle production and marketing that represents innovation behaviour. Cattle are vital to Indonesia’s smallholders’ livelihoods, and smallholder systems...
Considering customer value and value-added services provided by the online retail platform, this paper studies the differential pricing of a dual-channel supply chain consisting of one manufacturer and one online retail platform. Taking customer valu...
Milk is a highly nutritious and perfect natural food for humans. However, when lactating animals feed on Aflatoxin B1 (AFB1)-containing feed, the hydroxyl metabolite aflatoxin M1 (AFM1) contaminates the milk and dairy products. The objective of the c...
The paper aims to present the role of cities and their surroundings (metropolis) in the creation and flow of value, in order to shift the focus of analysis towards the geography of value chains. The analysis combines notions of a network of cities wi...
Consumers and businesses are often connected online in today’s digitally connected world. Fast and barrier-free communication, easier and faster operation, and automation and networking of robots and production offer many competitive advantages...
Under the wave of global industrial structure upgrading, Chinese manufacturing is developing towards a higher value chain. In this paper, 52 cases are selected and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) is used to analyze the configuratio...
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