Agri-Food Supply Chain Management: Bibliometric and Content Analyses

Abstract

Agri-food supply chain management (ASCM) research has gained attraction in recent years. This study aims to examine the knowledge structure, trace the evolution of, and propose future research directions for ASCM by a systematic literature review combined with bibliometric and content analyses. A total of 1770 articles were selected from Scopus for bibliometric analyses. We conducted a content analysis based on 188 articles in six clusters selected from the co-citation analysis. This review provides insights into key authors, their affiliations, journal quality, and the prestige of the reviewed articles, aspects that have not been fully captured or evaluated by previous reviews. Using bibliometric tools, we identified six clusters for ASCM, based on which, future research directions are proposed. Content analysis provides additional insights in each cluster. In particular, sustainability runs through all the themes identified except for one.

Implications of Green Logistics Management on Sustainable Business and Supply Chain Performance: Evidence from a Survey in the Greek Agri-Food Sector

“…Third, as the agri-food supply chain (ASC) sustainability theme has recently attracted research interest, too-limited number of papers deal with its practices and performance consequences [67,68].…”

Does Sustainability Pay? Evidence from the Food Sector

“…In the last years, sustainability is a trending area of research for food supply chain management literature (Luo et al, 2018) (Rockström and Sukhdev, 2016). Although the antecedents of food supply chain sustainability have been researched extensively (Zaid et al, 2018), the practices of sustainability and its consequences are relatively novel and open for contributions (Luo et al, 2018). Survey-based and other methods of research are needed to understand and improve sustainability in food supply chains.…”

Supply chain integration and resilience in China’s pig sector: case study evidences from emerging institutional arrangements

“…Scholars also reviewed the risk profiles in agri-food chains in China (Ye and Meng 2007 ) and proposed that the improvement of the risk management ability among agri-food chain stakeholders can improve the supply chain operation (Liu and Li 2011 ). Generally speaking, research on supply chain resilience is still in lack, and empirical studies in agri-food supply chain resilience in China context remain very few (Luo et al 2018 ).…”