Sustainability Performance in Food Supply Networks: Insights from the UK Industry

Tsolakis, Naoum; Anastasiadis, Foivos; Srai, Jagjit Singh

doi:10.3390/su10093148

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“…This suggests a non-diminishing total contribution of the current corporate activity to its profits over time at the highest possible level. Knowledge, creativity, analytical skills, and learning are developed by a sustainable company in order to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage [73][74][75]. From this perspective, the growth of economic capital should not be at the expense of the decline in natural or social capital.…”

Section: Sustainable Development Of Enterprisesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Resonance of Investments in Renewable Energy Sources in Industrial Enterprises in the Food Industry

2020

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Investments in renewable energy sources are an important direction in the development of modern economies. Motivating organizations to include appropriate investments in their development strategies becomes an essential issue. It seems clear that organizations need to see the long-term benefits of such investments in order to follow this trend. This article presents a thesis that assumes that from the microeconomic perspective, such investments are conducive to the implementation of various goals of the organization, causing the phenomenon of resonance in spheres such as the implementation of the sustainable development strategy, the level of innovation in the organization, brand image, and brand equity. The survey method was carried out on a sample of 143 industrial companies in the food industry in order to verify the hypotheses based on previous examples. Among the most important findings, it should be noted that investments in renewable energy sources make a significant contribution to building the market position of enterprises, in particular, to the level of innovation, creating value in a sustainable enterprise, and achieving goals in the area of creating a positive brand image and brand equity. The findings show that investing in renewable energy is compatible with the organization’s different goals.

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Section: Sustainable Development Of Enterprisesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Resonance of Investments in Renewable Energy Sources in Industrial Enterprises in the Food Industry

2020

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“…The selection of indicators is often subjective, and the choice of an indicator is determined by several factors, such as measurability, cost-effectiveness, ease of understanding, scientific reliability, and international comparability [47]. Then, according to the 15 authors, several indicators used to measure sustainability in general, or sustainability in the food or beef supply chain, are shown in Table-1 [16][17][18][19][20][21][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56].…”

Section: The Concept Of Sustainability Chain Management and The Measurementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, the ease of understanding of indicators by the farmers and the availability of primary and secondary data remain the main considerations in deciding the final indicators to be used. In detail, the [17,19,20] Working condition [17,48,51,56] Land used [19,48,49,55,56] Rate of employee give some suggestions about quality social, environmental, health and safety [51][52][53] Gender equality [19,21,54,56] Waste disposal [18,49,54,56] Volatility (price variation) [17,48] Animal welfare [19,48,56] Material used [17,18,49,51,52] Self-sufficiency [18,54] Number of employees trained/to be trained [49,51,53] Waste utilization [16,50,51] Cost associated with non-compliance [51,52] Employability [18,48] Atmosphere [20,…”

Section: The Concept Of Sustainability Chain Management and The Measurementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the chicken slaughterhouse chain, the economic dimension consisted of three indicators, the social dimension consisted of four indicators, and the environmental dimension consisted of three indicators. The proposed indicators that were utilized to examine the sustainability of the beef supply chain at both chains were established following some indicators developed by several researchers [16,17,[19][20][21][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56].…”

Section: Indicators and Measurement Scalementioning

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Measuring the sustainability of beef supply chain with rapid appraisal for beef supply chain

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Background and Aim: Nationally, there has always been a gap between the demand for beef and its supply, although supply growth is proportional with demand growth and even exceeds it in some regions in Indonesia. This research study aims to measure the sustainability status of the beef supply chain and applies the developed measurement system to a specific beef supply chain by identifying suitable indicators and their scale. Moreover, this research study provides some recommendations for the improvement of the sustainability status of the beef supply chain. Materials and Methods: In this research study, 11 and nine indicators were analyzed to assess the sustainability status of the beef supply chain at the farm and slaughterhouse chain levels. A rapid appraisal for beef supply chain was applied to rapidly assess the sustainability status of beef supply chains using Multidimensional Scaling (MDS). The Delphi method was utilized as an iterative process to collect data and obtain consensus of experts' judgments regarding the policies that should be implemented to improve the most sensitive indicator affecting the economic, social, and environmental dimensions. Results: Analysis of ordination with MDS shows the regional sustainability index value for multidimensional approaches of beef cattle farms and beef slaughterhouses. The sustainability index value for beef cattle farms was 56.14 (moderately sustainable), 48.02 (fairly unsustainable), and 48.77 (fairly unsustainable) in Semarang, Sragen, and Boyolali, respectively. Moreover, the sustainability index value for beef slaughterhouses was 47.05 (fairly unsustainable), 54.83 (moderately sustainable), and 54.19 (moderately sustainable) in Semarang, Sragen, and Boyolali, respectively. Policy recommendation was focused on the basis of the results of leverage analysis, which highlighted the most indicative factor affecting sustainability for each dimension. Conclusion: Measurement results revealed that the achievement of beef supply chain sustainability requires targeted efforts through the deployment of several policies as the current status of sustainability in beef farms and beef slaughterhouses was only inclined toward moderately sustainable and fairly unsustainable. Although all the surveyed regions in this study can meet the regional needs of beef meat on their own and even distribute the excess to other regions, none of the beef supply chains of the surveyed region indicated good sustainability.

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“…By considering the related literature, although there are many studies about prevention of food loss, these studies are either limited with current state analysis or focusing solely on environmental solutions (Gobel et al , 2015; Kummu et al , 2012; Parfitt et al , 2010; Verghese et al , 2015). In addition to that, a food supply chain needs to meet sustainability concerns based on TBL to reduce food losses, energy consumption while to increase social and economic welfare (Foran et al , 2005; Fritz and Schiefer, 2008; Kucukvar et al , 2019; Miemczyk and Luzzine, 2019; Tsolakis et al , 2018).…”

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Minimizing losses at red meat supply chain with circular and central slaughterhouse model

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Özbiltekin

Kazançoğlu

2019

JEIM

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to find solutions to improve the red meat sector in an emerging economy, Turkey, from the circular economy point of view, and taking sustainability approach. The need for circular management within the red meat sector in Turkey is emphasized by using Grey method. As theoretical contribution of this study, the investigation of the causes of losses at the slaughter stages of the red meat supply chain leads to proposals for sustainable and circular solutions. Design/methodology/approach Grey method is used to predict the number of slaughtered cattle and the amount of bone and blood waste in the slaughtering process between 2018 and 2020. Findings It is revealed that according to Grey prediction calculations, although the amount of slaughtered cattle, bone and blood waste seem have decreased between 2018 and 2020, there are still significant losses in Turkish red meat sector. For bone waste, this is expected to be 56,581,200 kg in 2018, 48,235,840 kg in 2019 and 41,121,380 kg in 2020. For blood waste, it is expected to be 24,754,275 kg in 2018, 21,103,180 kg in 2019 and 17,990,604 kg in 2020. Social implications The proposed model in the study will contribute on sector revitalization, increase in product safety, quality and hygiene, development in the management of training and education centers for farmers/labors and increase in employment. Originality/value This paper represents policymakers with a proposal for triple bottom line (TBL) based circular and central slaughterhouse model, based on TBL, which brings social, economic and environmental benefits for the red meat sector in Turkey.

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Sustainability Performance in Food Supply Networks: Insights from the UK Industry

Cited by 23 publications

References 36 publications

Resonance of Investments in Renewable Energy Sources in Industrial Enterprises in the Food Industry

Resonance of Investments in Renewable Energy Sources in Industrial Enterprises in the Food Industry

Measuring the sustainability of beef supply chain with rapid appraisal for beef supply chain

Minimizing losses at red meat supply chain with circular and central slaughterhouse model

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