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Technical and Organisational Innovations in the Food System: the Case of Fresh Products in France

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Economics of Innovation: The Case of Food Industry

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Within the food system, a reasoning based exclusively on supply is progressively making way for one in which demand holds an increasingly important and crucial position. This may be related to the growing importance held by modern retailing, which seems essentially to be the link between a diversified supply and variable demand.

Our hypothesis is that the reason behind the growing complexity of the supply and demand relationship may be found in the organisational changes occurring both within a firm and between the various operators, above all between firms and companies providing logistic services.

This is especially clear with the introduction of new technology which increases economic risk and strengthens the processes of irreversibility within the actors’ chosen strategies. Organisational innovations thereby tend to reduce this impact by establishing more “co-operative” relations between the various actors involved in the food chain.

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Green, R.H., Lanini, L., Schaller, B. (1996). Technical and Organisational Innovations in the Food System: the Case of Fresh Products in France. In: Galizzi, G., Venturini, L. (eds) Economics of Innovation: The Case of Food Industry. Contributions to Economics. Physica-Verlag HD. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-50001-5_22

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