Innovation-induced food supply chain design

Zilberman, David; Lu, Liang; Reardon, Thomas

doi:10.1016/j.foodpol.2017.03.010

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“…The economic research agenda on innovations and their implications can benefit from expanding research into the behavior of technology developers, manufacturers and retailers. This would entail further integration of research on research and development, technology generation and transfer, design of supply chains to implement innovations (Zilberman, Lu, and Reardon ), and marketing and adoption. Given the importance of research on technological innovation in applied economics, developing a more interdisciplinary perspective will allow us to improve our understanding and predictions.…”

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“…The design of a product strategy includes designing a supply chain and a marketing strategy. Zilberman et al (2019) develop a framework to determine the capacity and structure (vertical integration versus contracting) of supply chains for new products or services. Firms recognize that marketing mechanisms that have the capacity to reduce risk, such as MBGs and demonstrations, are costly.…”

Section: Supplier Behaviormentioning

confidence: 99%

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Marketing and Technology Adoption and Diffusion

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Ferguson²,

Zilberman³

2020

Applied Eco Perspectives Pol

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Applied economists have investigated individual adoption choices as well as diffusion (aggregate adoption). The emphasis, however, has been on adopters' behavior and risk associated with production and markets. Marketing also considers broader aspects and marketers develop tools to address risk related to the fit of a product, its performance, and its reliability. This paper expands the economic literature on adoption by analyzing and assessing the implications of the choice of marketing tools, like money‐back guarantees, demonstrations, and others, by marketers. The analysis is based on the threshold model of diffusion, which recognizes heterogeneity and dynamics. We provide evidence and examples from agriculture.

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Section: Supplier Behaviormentioning

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Marketing and Technology Adoption and Diffusion

Heiman¹,

Ferguson²,

Zilberman³

2020

Applied Eco Perspectives Pol

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“…Technology and product innovations are not "neutral" in their impact on the structure and conduct of food systems. The impact itself is often endogenous to the deliberate system designs of the innovator, as argued by Zilberman et al (2017). They examine the proactive links between innovators' innovations and their "implementation," to generate and protect an initial advantage and profit arising from the innovation's superiority (in cost or quality or safety) to the technology or product it supplants.…”

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Rapid transformation of food systems in developing regions: Highlighting the role of agricultural research & innovations

Reardon

Echeverría

Berdegué

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Agricultural Systems

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The International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) believes that open access contributes to its mission of reducing hunger and poverty, and improving human nutrition in the tropics through research aimed at increasing the eco-efficiency of agriculture. CIAT is committed to creating and sharing knowledge and information openly and globally. We do this through collaborative research as well as through the open sharing of our data, tools, and publications.

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“…The purpose of this paper is to provide such a framework. It relies on the idea that radical innovations result in new supply chains and marketing arrangements (Zilberman, Lu, and Reardon 2017), and we develop a model that relies on basic ideas of comparative advantage, urban economics, and supply chain and production economics.…”

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An Economic Model of the Evolution of Food Retail and Supply Chains from Traditional Shops to Supermarkets to E‐Commerce

Reardon

2018

American J Agri Economics

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Food retail has been in continuous evolution for the past century, both in developing and developed countries: from local traditional stores to supermarkets to e-commerce. In this paper we analyze the evolution of food retail by building a store choice equilibrium model and provide an illustrated discussion. The patterns in retail in any given time and place of different types of stores (such as traditional shops, supermarkets, and online e-commerce) depend on two main factors. The first are consumers' characteristics such as income, tastes, and travel costs of going to different stores and/or shipping costs if purchasing online. The second are the stores' cost structures, which include item costs from upstream producers, the costs of procurement supply chains (beyond the cost of the item) for perishable items, and the costs of in-store storage. We show under what conditions in equilibrium the different retail types exist and which can become dominant, and what types of goods (dry packaged foods versus perishables) are distributed by what type of retailers.

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Innovation-induced food supply chain design

Cited by 86 publications

References 35 publications

Marketing and Technology Adoption and Diffusion

Marketing and Technology Adoption and Diffusion

Rapid transformation of food systems in developing regions: Highlighting the role of agricultural research & innovations

An Economic Model of the Evolution of Food Retail and Supply Chains from Traditional Shops to Supermarkets to E‐Commerce

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