Quality Management in Food Chains gives a comprehensive review of quality management concepts in food chains and highlights future research directions from a global perspective.
Contents
Invited Speakers
- Economics of Standard Owners: Competition as Barrier to Global Harmonisation of Food Assurance Systems
- Facade and Means of Control: The Use of ISO 9000 Standards
Firm's Costs and Benefits of Quality Management and Quality Assurance Systems
- Firm's Costs of Traceability Confronted with Consumer Requirements
- The Effect of Transaction Costs Associated with Certification of Exports on the Profitability of Farming Systems for Chilean Small Farmers
- Production Costs of Citrus Growing in the Comunidad Valenciana (Spain): EurepGAP Protocol Versus Standard Production
- The Role of ISO Standards in Micro and Small-Scale Food Ingredient Companies
- Company Costs and Benefits of Organic Processed Food
- The Effects of Certification Costs on the Success of a PDO/PGI
Strategic, Organisational and Human Resource Management Aspects of Quality Management
- Improving Quality-Related Communication in Food Chains with Quality Function Deployment: The Dairy Industry
- Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) as a Decision Support Tool Within a Quality Information System in Pork Production Chains
- Quality Assurance in Agribusiness: Evaluating 'Qualität und Sicherheit' and 'QM Milch' from a Total Quality Management Perspective
- Regional Quality Programs: Relevance, Objectives and Strategies
- Development of a Process Oriented Management System Based on a Data Bank: An Approach to Successfully Fulfill Quality Requirements in Food Industry
- Network Management for Dairy Productivity and Quality in Ethiopia
- Organisational Process Alternatives for Process Simulation in Agri-Food Processing and Trade: The Case of the Grain Chain
- Maintaining Organic Integrity: Tackling Fraud in Organics
Consumers' Expectations of Quality Assurance and Management Systems
- Food Quality Signals and Customer Confusion: Is There a Relevance for the Marketing of Food Products?
- Brands as Quality Signals in the Meat Market: Lessons from the Poultry Sector
- Food Quality from a Consumer's Perspective
- Perceived Safety of Organic and Regional Food from a Perspective of Uncertain Consumers
- Consumers' View and Awareness of Genetically Modified Food
- Information Releases Concerning Food Scares and their Impact on the Aggregate Demand: Using Artificial Consumer Societies
- The Importance of Emotional Quality as a Buying Pattern Argument: Results of a Consumer Survey
Benchmarking and Harmonisation Methods and their Effects on the Effectiveness of Quality Assurance Schemes
- Conception of Integrated Models for Quality Management in Production Chains in the Agri-Food Sector
- The Organisation of Private Auditing Systems and their Limitations: A Comparative Analysis of the Eurep Systems
- Analysis of the Compatability of Selected Quality Systems in Agriculture and Food Production
Farmers' Perceptions and Motivation on Food Safety and Quality
- Enhancing the Acceptance of Quality Systems by German Farmers: The Case of Quality Management and Quality Assurance
- Controversial Positions about the QS System in Agriculture: An Empirical Study
- Growers' Perceptions about EurepGAP in Developing Countries: Results of a Survey Carried out in Peru
- Dairy Farmer's Acceptance of a Processor Driven Quality Management System: A Structural Equation Model
Quality Managment: A Supply Chain Perspective
- Comparison Among Quality Assurance and Management Schemes Regarding the Ability to Enhance Suppliers-Retailers Relationships in Emilia-Romagna (Italy)
- Prevention of Food Scandals by Means of Contracts
- Globalisation, Quality Management and Vertical Coordination in Food Chains of Transition Countries
- The Consequences of Heterogeneous Agents and Moral Hazard on Food Safety and Trade
- Supplier Relationship Management in the German Dairy Industry
- Trust and E-Commerce in the Agrifood Industry: Configuration of a Trust Environment for E-Commerce Activities
- Actor Organisation for QAS Along Agro Supply-Chains: The Case of Mycotoxins Reduction in Southern Cone Grains
- Does Food Quality Management Create a Competitive Advantage?
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