Determinants of the competitive advantage of dairy supply chains: Evidence from the Chinese dairy industry

Ding, Heng; Fu, Yong-Heng; Zheng, Lucy; Zhu, Yan

doi:10.1016/j.ijpe.2018.02.013

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“…A total of ten important key enablers to implement sustainable initiatives in A-FSC were identified through the combined utilization of literature and expert inputs (Table 1) and Section 5.1 provides more details on the data collection methodology. Klassen and Vachon, 2003;Clemens and Douglus, 2006;Seuring and Muller, 2008;Vachon and Klassen, 2008;Zhu et al, 2008;Kumar and Rahman, 2015;Ding et al, 2018 Incentives and support of various agencies to undertake sustainable initiatives (E2) Expectation of getting support from various sources in term of money, technology and infrastructure is important for implementing sustainability Simpson and Power, 2005;Lin, 2007;Matos and Hall, 2007;Bitzer et al, 2008;Seuring and Muller, 2008;Van Bommel, 2011; Understanding customer and other stakeholder requirements (E3)…”

Section: Proposed Enablers For Sustainable Initiatives In A-fscsmentioning

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Enablers to implement sustainable initiatives in agri-food supply chains

Mangla

Luthra²,

Rich

et al. 2018

International Journal of Production Economics

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Due to rapid industrialization of agriculture, increased global food demand, and, increasing concerns related to food quality and safety, the concept of sustainability and supply chain transparency are becoming critically important to the agriculture and agri-food sector. The addition of sustainability performance objectives not only focuses on the effective utilization and consumption of natural resources, but also drives efforts to balance ecological, economic and societal aspects of agri-food businesses. The management of sustainability adds a new demand on business managers who often have small profits and receive stringent requirements from large powerful customers and retailers. In this paper, we recognize and analyze the key enablers in implementing sustainable initiatives for Agri-Food Supply Chains (A-FSCs). Ten important sustainability driven enablers were considered from a rigorous literature review and phase of expert consultation. The identified enablers were then analyzed using a combined Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM)-fuzzy Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) based framework. The ISM approach enabled an appreciation of the contextual relationships among the enablers and to classify the enablers based on their driving and dependence potential. The fuzzy DEMATEL technique supported the determination of the influential and influenced enablers and also to categorize them into cause and effect groups. An empirical case study, drawn from a vegetable and fruit retail supply chain in India, is used to focus and test the applicability of the proposed research framework. The paper facilitates professional management practice and researchers to uncover and explore the enablers for the real execution of sustainability oriented initiatives in the agri-food business sector.

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Section: Proposed Enablers For Sustainable Initiatives In A-fscsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Enablers to implement sustainable initiatives in agri-food supply chains

Mangla

Luthra²,

Rich

et al. 2018

International Journal of Production Economics

261

173

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“…All this made China’s domestic market competition extremely fierce. During this time, the price forming mechanism of China’s dairy industry chain was imperfect, the benefit distribution of its dairy industry chain was distorted [1,2,3,4,5,6] and a series of dairy product safety scandals shook the confidence of Chinese consumers. Of all the dairy scandals, the 2008 melamine milk scandal had the biggest impact on the dairy industry.…”

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A Comparative Study of the Role of Australia and New Zealand in Sustainable Dairy Competition in the Chinese Market after the Dairy Safety Scandals

2018

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After the melamine milk scandal in 2008, China’s global imports of dairy products soared, especially after FTAs had been established with Australia and New Zealand. The dairy products of the two countries have a unique competitive trading advantage in the Chinese market. However, at a time when Chinese consumers are increasingly dependent on imported dairy products, a succession of whey protein scandals affecting New Zealand’s dairy products in 2013 had a negative psychological impact on Chinese importers and consumers, and this even affected the import status of New Zealand dairy imports to the Chinese market. The present paper, based on the United Nations Comtrade Harmonized System, studies the role of Australia and New Zealand in China’s dairy market. It calculates the trade competitiveness index, revealing the relative competitive advantages of Australia and New Zealand, and investigates the impact of the dairy products from these countries on China’s imports from the rest of the world across six dairy sectors in the period 1992–2017. We find that, under the food safety laws, the relative dairy import prices, milk scandals, and Free Trade Agreements, together with the competitive advantages of Australia and New Zealand, had a varied impact on the corresponding Chinese dairy imports across the relevant sectors in the context of China food safety laws after the melamine milk scandal. These findings acknowledge Australia and New Zealand’s competitiveness in the international dairy trade, and also lead to suggestions regarding their competitiveness and sustainable development in the Chinese market.

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“…To this end, many studies were carried out on the quality attenuation [11], the incentives and coordination in quality control of agricultural products [12,13], the impact of effort level and fairness preference on the quality of agricultural products in the supply chain [14], and other aspects. Moreover, some scholars also studied specific agri-food supply chains, including oranges, vegetable, cheese, fish, and dairy [15][16][17][18][19]. Given the special structure of agri-food supply chain, some other studies examined the optimal decisions of participants, such as "farmer and supermarket" [20], "farmer and company" [21], and "farm and consumers" [22].…”

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Quality Decision-Making Behavior of Bodies Participating in the Agri-Foods E-Supply Chain

Panqian

2020

Sustainability

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The quality of agri-foods in e-supply chains confronts more threats than that in the traditional agri-food supply chain. However, most of the existing studies focusing on the quality problems of fresh agri-products are mainly cases studies and statistical analyses, and they do not take into account the farmers’ willingness to comply with safe agri-food supply procedures. To solve the supply quality problems of fresh agri-foods and help participators make a better choice, the decision-making behavior on the supply quality of agri-foods in the e-supply chain was deeply studied in this paper using game theory. Some factors related to the decision behavior of the supply chain were analyzed, including the supervision intension of the government, the rights protection consciousness of consumers, and the intensity of punishment for poor-quality agri-foods. These factors have an important influence on the farmers’ willingness to provide high-quality products and e-business’ probability of inspection. Compared with three different decision models of agri-food e-supply chains, the results show that the decentralized decision model is better than the centralized model from the view of quality protection. The behavior of members of the supply chain is as follows: the farmers’ willingness to supply high-quality agri-foods increases with the increase in the consumers’ consciousness of their rights and the government’s supervision intensity. The “experience deviation” phenomenon also occurs when a new e-business makes a decision about its quality inspection behavior in this e-supply chain where the quality information is traceable. As such, e-business enterprises should reduce their quality inspection behavior based on the increase in the government’s supervision intensity. This happens to be opposite to the traditional experience where quality information is not traceable. This study not only extends the research framework of the novel electronic supply chain, but also provides a certain reference for the subsequent research and e-business practices of fresh produce in developing countries.

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Determinants of the competitive advantage of dairy supply chains: Evidence from the Chinese dairy industry

Cited by 44 publications

References 51 publications

Enablers to implement sustainable initiatives in agri-food supply chains

Enablers to implement sustainable initiatives in agri-food supply chains

A Comparative Study of the Role of Australia and New Zealand in Sustainable Dairy Competition in the Chinese Market after the Dairy Safety Scandals

Quality Decision-Making Behavior of Bodies Participating in the Agri-Foods E-Supply Chain

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