Sustainable food chains: the role of collective action and government incentives

Authors

  • Silvia Morales de Queiroz Caleman Escola de Administração e Negócios (ESAN) - Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS)
  • Guilherme Fowler de Avila Monteiro Insper Institute of Education and Research
  • George Hendrikse Rotterdam School of Management (RSM) - Erasmus University

Keywords:

sustainability, food chain, collective action, institution, incentives

Abstract

We examine the role of collective actions as supporting elements of a long lasting sustainable food supply chain. The main contribution of this article is to link the idea of sustainable supply chain and the collective action problem (horizontal coordination) that may be required in order to deal with externalities related to the provision of sustainable products. In addition, we analyze how the presence or absence of government incentives shapes collective action in the food industry. We base our analysis in a simple formal argument inspired by case studies regarding sustainable farming in Brazil and the Netherlands. Results show that horizontal mechanisms of cooperation maintain positive levels of sustainability, even in the absence of direct payments by the government. 

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Author Biographies

Silvia Morales de Queiroz Caleman, Escola de Administração e Negócios (ESAN) - Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS)

Graduada em Engenharia Agronômica (ESALQ/USP), Mestre em Agronegócios (UFMS), Doutora em Administração (FEA/USP) e Pós Doutora em Economia das Organizações (Rotterdam School of Management - Erasmus University). Docente Adjunta na Escola de Administração e Negócios (ESAN/UFMS) e pesquisadora do Programa de Pós Graduação em Administração (PPGAd/UFMS).

Guilherme Fowler de Avila Monteiro, Insper Institute of Education and Research

Professor at Insper Institute of Education and Research (Brazil) and a Research Associate at the Center for Organization Studies at the University of Sao Paulo (USP). He holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of São Paulo (2005), a master’s degree in Economic Theory (2007) and a DSc in Management in the field of Organizational Economics (2010) from the same university. He was a fellow of the European School on New Institutional Economics (France, 2008) and the Ronald Coase Institute (China, 2009). He conducts research on the interface between economics, law and strategy, having published in journals such as Strategic Organization, Global Strategy Journal and Development Policy Review

George Hendrikse, Rotterdam School of Management (RSM) - Erasmus University

George Hendrikse is a professor of the Economics of Organisations at the Department of Organisation and Personnel Management, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM). His research and teaching examines the relationship between the internal and industrial organisation of enterprises, with a special interest in cooperatives. He studied business econometrics at the undergraduate level at Tilburg University in the Netherlands and obtained his PhD degree in economics at the University of Pittsburgh in the USA.


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Published

2017-09-30

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Caleman SM de Q, Monteiro GF de A, Hendrikse G. Sustainable food chains: the role of collective action and government incentives. Organ. Soc. [Internet]. 2017Sep.30 [cited 2024May2];24(83). Available from: https://periodicos.ufba.br/index.php/revistaoes/article/view/14851

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Vol. 24 No. 83 (2017)

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