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  • Vertical coordination in post-transition red meat supply chain : the case of Slovenia
    Kodelja, Urška ; Kuhar, Aleš, 1974-
    The key focus of the paper is to analyse the attitudes of pig and cattle breeders towards the collective action typical of contemporary supply chains. We investigated in detail the benefits or ... burdens from participation in a vertical chain. The data were collected in a survey including 313 farmers engaged in pig and cattle production. Respondents were asked to evaluate statements related to organizational forms of collective action and its benefits, express their attitude towards the supply chain coordination, evaluate currently established relationships, etc. The hierarchical cluster analysis was used to group the respondents regarding their agreement levels on different aspects of cupply chain relationships. Other parts of the questionnaire were used to form and describe cluster profiles. The results have shown that obsolete and inefficient organizational forms of supply chain relationships prevail in Slovenian pig and cattle breeding sectors, however, farmers significantly differ according to their attitude towards vertical coorination. Moreover, alternative forms of collective activities are set up in order to overcome weakness and inefficiency of the prevalent vertical chains.
    Source: Proceedings of 6th Central European Congress on Food [Elektronski vir] : CEFood congress (Str. 1487-1492)
    Type of material - conference contribution
    Publish date - 2012
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 3053192

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