Food supply chains increasingly rely on big-data management solutions to foster collaboration across the food supply chain and improve business performance. However, little is known about collaboration practices that actors on the digital food supply chain adopt to solve problems such as food waste, or about the drivers and barriers related to the digital transformation of the food supply chain. Most of food waste studies rely on quantitative analysis, which cannot reveal relevant details about the tensions and dynamics of collaboration. We conducted a qualitative study drawing on eighteen in-depth interviews - of managers of large multinational and local organizations covering different and relevant roles on the digital food supply chain - to investigate how organizational and food supply chain processes are affected by the digitalization of the operations along the food supply chain. By triangulating emerging findings with literature on supply chain management we discuss different views about collaborative practices for food waste prevention in the food supply chain and provide insights on how supply chain design and firms’ operations have been re-conceptualized with the usage of digital technologies and on the institutional forces both limiting (barriers) and fostering (drivers) the diffusion of the digital food supply chain.

Digitalization within food supply chains to prevent food waste: Drivers, barriers, and collaboration practices / Annosi, Maria Carmela; Brunetta, Federica; Bimbo, Francesco; Kostoula, Marianthi. - In: INDUSTRIAL MARKETING MANAGEMENT. - ISSN 0019-8501. - 93:February(2021), pp. 208-220. [10.1016/j.indmarman.2021.01.005]

Digitalization within food supply chains to prevent food waste: Drivers, barriers, and collaboration practices

Brunetta, Federica
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2021

Abstract

Food supply chains increasingly rely on big-data management solutions to foster collaboration across the food supply chain and improve business performance. However, little is known about collaboration practices that actors on the digital food supply chain adopt to solve problems such as food waste, or about the drivers and barriers related to the digital transformation of the food supply chain. Most of food waste studies rely on quantitative analysis, which cannot reveal relevant details about the tensions and dynamics of collaboration. We conducted a qualitative study drawing on eighteen in-depth interviews - of managers of large multinational and local organizations covering different and relevant roles on the digital food supply chain - to investigate how organizational and food supply chain processes are affected by the digitalization of the operations along the food supply chain. By triangulating emerging findings with literature on supply chain management we discuss different views about collaborative practices for food waste prevention in the food supply chain and provide insights on how supply chain design and firms’ operations have been re-conceptualized with the usage of digital technologies and on the institutional forces both limiting (barriers) and fostering (drivers) the diffusion of the digital food supply chain.
2021
Food waste management, Big-data management, Food supply chain, Digital supply chain integration, In-depth interview approach
Digitalization within food supply chains to prevent food waste: Drivers, barriers, and collaboration practices / Annosi, Maria Carmela; Brunetta, Federica; Bimbo, Francesco; Kostoula, Marianthi. - In: INDUSTRIAL MARKETING MANAGEMENT. - ISSN 0019-8501. - 93:February(2021), pp. 208-220. [10.1016/j.indmarman.2021.01.005]
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