British Food Journal: Volume 118 Issue 6

Drivers of innovation in Italy: food versus pharmaceutical industry

Stefano Ciliberti, Laura Carraresi, Stefanie Bröring

The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, it aims to investigate how internal and external drivers affect innovation in the Italian food industry. Second, the authors are…

Why food companies go green? The determinant factors to adopt eco-innovations

Marilia Bonzanini Bossle, Marcia Dutra De Barcellos, Luciana Marques Vieira

The purpose of this paper is to analyse how internal and external factors can influence on the adoption of eco-innovation by food companies. Although innovation and sustainability…

Innovations in the agro-food system: Adoption of certified organic food and green food by Chinese consumers

Breda McCarthy, Hong-Bo Liu, Tingzhen Chen

The purpose of this paper is to identify the factors driving the adoption of “green innovations” notably green food and certified organic food and to examine the attitudes of…

Enabling community-powered co-innovation by connecting rural stakeholders with global knowledge brokers: A case study from Nepal

Rainer Haas, Oliver Meixner, Marcus Petz

In the contribution the authors show how the concept of community-powered co-innovation can successfully be implemented in order to improve the situation of small-scale farmers…

Retailers and technology-driven innovation in the food sector: Caretakers of consumer interests or barriers to innovation?

Lars Esbjerg, Steve Burt, Hannah Pearse, Viviane Glanz-Chanos

– The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role that retailers play in innovation in the food sector.

Creating value chains: the role of relationship development

Kathleen Hastings, Janet Howieson, Meredith Lawley

The purpose of this paper is to identify the key characteristics of business-to-business relationships in the early stages of the relationship that will influence the successful…

Food supply in a network context: An alternative framing and managerial consequences in efforts to prevent food waste

Lars-Erik Gadde, Pegah Amani

The purpose of this paper is to present a “network” framing of food supply arrangements. Such frameworks have been asked for in previous research as supplements to prevailing…

A model for measuring technology capability in the agrifood industry companies

Claudia De Mori, Mario Otávio Batalha, Oscar Alfranca

– The purpose of this paper is to focus on technology capability and develops a model for measuring it applied agrifood industry companies.

Business model innovation in the agri-food sector: a literature review

Joakim Tell, Maya Hoveskog, Pia Ulvenblad, Per-Ola Ulvenblad, Henrik Barth, Jenny Ståhl

Because the business model (BM) is a fairly new concept, research is lacking on business model innovation (BMI) in certain industry sectors. One such sector is the agri-food…

Building strategic resilience in the food supply chain

Louise Manning, Jan Mei Soon

The purpose of this paper is to consider the concept of strategic business resilience in order to postulate innovative mechanisms to drive business performance in the food supply…

Borderless ideas – open innovation in the Hungarian food chain

Imre Fertő, Adrienn Molnár, József Tóth

– The purpose of this paper is to investigate the innovation performance in the Hungarian food chain using the concept of open innovation.

Mental innovation space of Vietnamese agro-food firms

Jotte De Koning, Marcel Crul, Jo Van Engelen, Renee Wever, Johannes Brezet

Vietnamese agro-food firms are often small and have short value chains. They are facing increasing competition from multinationals to serve the consumers of the rising middle…

Improving sustainability of beef industry supply chains

Ellen Goddard, Albert Boaitey, Getu Hailu, Kenneth Poon

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate cow-calf producer incentive to adopt innovations in traits with important environmental and economic implications for the beef supply…

Guest editorial

Rosa Caiazza, Tiziana Volpe, John L Stanton