The trade-off between chain performance and fragility considering coordination strategies of agri-food chains : a South African egg chain’s case study

dc.contributor.authorSetene, Letlama
dc.contributor.authorJordaan, Daniel Du Plessis Scheepers
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-07T04:12:27Z
dc.date.available2022-04-07T04:12:27Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractThe mainstream strategy in the coordination of agri-food chains has traditionally focused more on the enhancement of chain performance by adopting lean and highly integrated strategies. These strategies are premised on the principle that governance structures are the result of tactics that economize on transaction costs in exchanges in chains. Due to existing interdependencies between chain players such strategies expose these chains to detrimentally disruptive uncertainty. This paper adopted a heuristic stress-testing approach to measure the fragility of South African egg value chain and performed a comparative fragility analysis of two coordination approaches in the egg chain. Additionally, the analysis of results indicated that the egg chain strategy with high levels of interdependencies between its chain players as significantly fragile. Precisely, the difference between the chain strategies was associated with a variety of differences at the factor and chain player levels that led up to a higher overall chain fragility of the chain with higher levels of interdependency. Inevitably, the paper propositions that there is a trade-off between chain performance and fragility. The results of the study affirmed that there is a trade-off between chain performance and fragility which needs to be balanced.en_ZA
dc.description.departmentAgricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Developmenten_ZA
dc.description.librarianam2022en_ZA
dc.description.sponsorshipThe African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), through its Collaborative Masters in Agricultural and Applied Economics (CMAAE) programme.en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://www.wageningenacademic.com/loi/ifamren_ZA
dc.identifier.citationSetene, L. & Jordaan, D.dP.S. 2021, 'The trade-off between chain performance and fragility considering coordination strategies of agri-food chains : a South African egg chain’s case study', International Food and Agribusiness Management Review, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 439-461.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn1559-2448
dc.identifier.other10.22434/IFAMR2020.0079
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/84812
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherWageningen Academic Publishersen_ZA
dc.rights© 2021 Setene and Jordaan. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license.en_ZA
dc.subjectCoordination strategiesen_ZA
dc.subjectChain performanceen_ZA
dc.subjectChain fragilityen_ZA
dc.subjectInterdependenciesen_ZA
dc.subjectUncertaintyen_ZA
dc.subjectAgri-food chainsen_ZA
dc.titleThe trade-off between chain performance and fragility considering coordination strategies of agri-food chains : a South African egg chain’s case studyen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA

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