Publications by year
2023
Weituschat CS, Pascucci S, Materia VC, Caracciolo F (2023). Can contract farming support sustainable intensification in agri-food value chains?.
Ecological Economics,
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Can contract farming support sustainable intensification in agri-food value chains?
Sustainable intensification aims to minimize the negative impacts of the current agricultural system while maintaining productivity and economic outputs. This study demonstrates that contract farming is a potential mechanism to support many, but not all, farmers in adopting sustainable intensification practices. A discrete choice experiment on a hypothetical value chain contract introducing three sustainable intensification practices, namely extended crop rotation, reducing agrochemicals and planting flower strips, was conducted with a sample of 314 north-Italian wheat farmers. The results show that permanently eliminating glyphosate from the plot under contract is strongly resisted by farmers, while farmers have less strong preferences between introducing legumes or oilseeds in rotation, and between temporary or permanent flower strips. Findings also indicate that farmers who are more educated, are not members of cooperatives and who generally prefer more flexible sales arrangements are unlikely to be triggered to adopt sustainable intensification practices through contract farming. Overall, this study indicates that while voluntary contract arrangements can be a potential tool to increase uptake of sustainable intensification practices, they will likely need to be complemented with more public policy intervention in order to bring sustainable intensification practices to scale.
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Alexander A, Pascucci S, Charnley F (2023).
Handbook of the circular economy: Transitions and transformation.Abstract:
Handbook of the circular economy: Transitions and transformation
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Manolchev C, Stussi L, Ho C-H, Campenni M, Pascucci S, Lewis D (2023). Internal ‘chutes’ and legal ‘ladders’: negative behaviour anomalies in the NHS. EGOS. 6th - 8th Jul 2023.
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Internal ‘chutes’ and legal ‘ladders’: negative behaviour anomalies in the NHS
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Pascucci S (2023). Introduction. In (Ed)
Handbook of the Circular Economy, 93-96.
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Pascucci S (2023). Introduction. In (Ed)
Handbook of the Circular Economy: Transitions and Transformation, 93-96.
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Okorie O (2023). Riversimple: Mobility. In Alexander A, Pascucci S, Charnley F (Eds.)
Handbook of the Circular Economy Transitions and Transformation, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 385-385.
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Riversimple: Mobility
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Pascucci S, Alexander A, Charnley F, Fishburn J (2023). The circular economy: landscape, dimensions and definitions. In (Ed)
Handbook of the Circular Economy, 1-16.
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Weituschat CS, Pascucci S, Materia VC, Blasi E (2023). Understanding the role of value chain formation in the scaling of crop diversification.
Agronomy for Sustainable Development,
43(2).
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Understanding the role of value chain formation in the scaling of crop diversification
Significant detrimental effects of agricultural intensification and specialization are becoming increasingly evident. Reliance on monocultures, few varieties, and intensive use of agrochemicals is a major factor in climate change, biodiversity decline, soil health deterioration, and pollution, putting our food system at risk. This requires sustainable agricultural processes, such as crop diversification, to be more rapidly and effectively tested, adopted, and scaled. While these processes are typically introduced at niche level, they often struggle to scale and to induce broader sustainability transitions. In this study, we investigate how scaling may occur, focusing on institutional logics, their changes, and realignment over time. In particular, we applied an abductive research strategy to collect empirical evidence from two in-depth, longitudinal case studies of innovation niches related to crop diversification. Doing so, we show for the first time that, despite their many differences, scaling processes of crop diversification in both niches converge, presenting similar progressions in terms of institutional dimensions, and facing similar obstacles when it comes to value chain formation. While initial experimentation could still be implemented using organizational forms familiar to the lead actors, we discover that a systemic lack of adequate value chain arrangements obstructed the scaling process of crop diversification in both cases. These findings have been used to reflect on the role of value chain relations in scaling processes in sustainability transitions in agriculture.
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2022
Boehm S, Sandover R, Pascucci S, Colombo L, Jackson S, Lobley M (2022). Circular food systems: a blueprint for regenerative innovations in a regional UK context. In Sage CL (Ed) A Research Agenda for Food Systems, Edward Elgar.
Fischer A, Pascucci S, Dolfsma W (2022). Designing a circular contract Template: Insights from the fairphone-as-a-Service project.
Journal of Cleaner Production,
364 DOI.
Weituschat CS, Pascucci S, Materia VC, Tamas P, de Jong R, Trienekens J (2022). Goal frames and sustainability transitions: how cognitive lock-ins can impede crop diversification.
Sustainability Science,
17(6), 2203-2219.
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Goal frames and sustainability transitions: how cognitive lock-ins can impede crop diversification
AbstractTransitions towards more sustainable agricultural systems are often characterised by ‘lock-ins’, understood as self-reinforcing mechanisms that reproduce the status quo and impede change. While socioeconomic, technological and institutional lock-ins have been widely used to understand processes of sustainable transitions in agri-food systems, the role of so-called cognitive lock-ins is still under-investigated. In this study, we focus on how institutional settings create cognitive lock-ins in farmers’ decision-making related to the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices. We apply goal framing for environmental behaviour and transition theory in explaining how socio-technical conditions may shape farmer’s decision-making. Empirically, we focus on the example of diversifying crop rotations with legumes as an established strategy to increase biodiversity and soil health, and reduce agrochemical use, emissions and pollution, which still remains rare in European agriculture. We use two cases in the Atlantic pedo-climatic region, Cornwall, UK, and Gelderland, Netherlands. Using in-depth interview data with farmers and extensive supplementary secondary data, we explore how context-specific socio-technical settings interact with farmers’ normative, gain-oriented and hedonic goal frames to shape the (un-)desirability of crop diversification with legumes. This creates conditions recognisable as cognitive lock-ins: the context of farmers’ decision-making creates cognitive processes that drastically reduce the perceived viability of alternative agricultural practices. Our findings in this case suggest the framework developed for this study may help to identify regionally specific, as well as common, barriers and solutions to crop diversification and comparable practices that are relevant to transitions towards sustainability in agri-food systems.
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Howard M, Yan X, Mustafee N, Charnley F, Böhm S, Pascucci S (2022). Going beyond waste reduction: Exploring tools and methods for circular economy adoption in small-medium enterprises.
Resources, Conservation and Recycling,
182, 106345-106345.
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Panico T, Pascucci S, Lobbedez E, Del Giudice T (2022). Paradise Lost?. In (Ed)
Whole Person Promotion, Women, and the Post-Pandemic Era, 91-114.
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Panico T, Pascucci S, Lobbedez E, Del Giudice T, Cicia G (2022). Paradise Lost?: Understanding Social Embeddedness Through Crisis and Violence in the Neapolitan “Land of Fires”. In (Ed)
Whole Person Promotion, Women, and the Post-Pandemic Era: Impact and Future Outlooks, IGI Global, 91-114.
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Paradise Lost?: Understanding Social Embeddedness Through Crisis and Violence in the Neapolitan “Land of Fires”
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2021
Monier-Dilhan S, Poméon T, Böhm M, Brečić R, Csillag P, Donati M, Ferrer-Pérez H, Gauvrit L, Gil JM, Hoàng V, et al (2021). Do Food Quality Schemes and Net Price Premiums Go Together?.
Journal of Agricultural and Food Industrial Organization,
19(2), 79-94.
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Do Food Quality Schemes and Net Price Premiums Go Together?
This article addresses the issue of the profitability of Food Quality Scheme (FQS) products as compared to reference products, which are defined as analogous products without quality label. We approach this question by taking into account the level of the value chain (upstream, processing, and downstream), the sector (vegetal, animal, seafood) and the type of FQS (PGI, PDO, Organic). We collected original data for several products produced in selected European countries, as well as in Thailand and Vietnam. Comparisons depending on value chain level, sector and FQS are possible by using two comparable indicators: price premium and net price premium (including cost differential). The following principal conclusions were reached: 1) Price is higher for FQS products than for the reference products, regardless of the production level, the type of FQS or the sector; 2) Price premiums generated by FQS do not differ along the value chain, nor between sectors (vegetal, animal or seafood/fish); 3) Price premium for organic products is significantly higher than for PGI products, and this conclusion holds at upstream and processing levels, taking into account the costs directly related to production; 4) all organic products and almost all PDO and PGI products analysed benefit from a positive quality rent; 5) at upstream level and processing level, the relative weight of intermediate consumption in the cost structure is lower for organic products than for reference products.
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Pascucci S, Dentoni D, Lombardi A, Cembalo L (2021). Sharing values or sharing costs? Understanding consumer participation in alternative food networks.
NJAS: Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences,
78(1), 47-60.
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Cherrington R, Alexander A, Boehm S, Manolchev C, Monciardini D, Pascucci S (2021). The sociomateriality of plastic waste: a cross-case comparison. ISPIM Innovation Conference – Innovating Our Common Future. 20th - 23rd Jun 2021.
Fischer A, Pascucci S, Dolfsma W (2021). Understanding the role of institutional intermediaries in the emergence of the circular economy. In (Ed) Circular Economy: Challenges and Opportunities for Ethical and Sustainable Business, 108-126.
2020
Pascucci S (2020). Building natural resource networks: urban agriculture and the circular economy. In (Ed) Achieving sustainable urban agriculture, BURLEIGH DODDS SCIENCE PUBLISHING.
Alexander A, Boehm S, Pascucci S, Cherrington R (2020). Circular Innovations: Sustainable Innovations, Eco-Innovations and Circular Regeneration?. the ISPIM Innovation Conference – Innovating in Times of Crisis. 7th - 10th Jun 2020.
Pascucci S (2020). Circular food economies. In (Ed) Routledge Handbook of Sustainable and Regenerative Food Systems, 318-335.
Borrello M, Pascucci S, Caracciolo F, Lombardi A, Cembalo L (2020). Consumers are willing to participate in circular business models: a practice theory perspective to food provisioning.
Journal of Cleaner Production,
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Consumers are willing to participate in circular business models: a practice theory perspective to food provisioning
Implementing circular business models in food supply chains is an organizational solution to tackle the issue of household food waste, converting it in feedstock to upcycle within industrial symbioses. Adopting literature on practices of food consumption as theoretical framework, this paper analyzes consumers’ participation in circular business models. A conceptual model of the emergence of food provisioning practices in circular business models is designed and empirically tested, through a survey, in order to analyze consumers’ willingness to participate in an innovative food provisioning mechanism with retailers. Respondents were asked to choose whether to participate or not in a proposed program, and their choices have been modelled in an ordered logit model. 88% of interviewees declared sorting organic food waste as a normal activity in his household. 78.9% of participants accepted to participate to the proposed programs independently of the type of agreement's attributes. 14.49% accepted only some programs depending on the program type, while 6.61% of respondents choose not to participate to any of the proposed program. Findings outline the expected participant as an individual already engaged in tasks to cope with risk in food provisioning and having already developed a long-lasting relation with a retailer. The study reveals also the opposite effect of concerns about tasks related to take-back system, such as food waste handling, and social desirability of recycling. Focusing on the business-to-consumers relationship, the paper suggests to practitioners interested in circular business models the possibility to adopt innovative ‘food-product-as-a-service’ approaches. Recommendations can be derived for future studies about the relevance of practice theory in the analysis of consumers’ engagement in circular business models.
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Pascucci S, Dentoni D, Clements J, Poldner K, Gartner W (2020). EXPRESS: Forging forms of authority through the sociomateriality of food in partial organizations.
Organization Studies DOI.
Boehm S, Pascucci S (2020). It’s not just about the Mafia! Conceptualizing business-society relations of organized violence.
The Academy of Management Perspectives DOI.
Dentoni D, Bijman J, Bossle MB, Gondwe S, Isubikalu P, Ji C, Kella C, Pascucci S, Royer A, Vieira L, et al (2020). New organizational forms in emerging economies: bridging the gap between agribusiness management and international development.
Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies,
10(1), 1-11.
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New organizational forms in emerging economies: bridging the gap between agribusiness management and international development
Purpose: This editorial article introduces and analyzes a variety of new organizational forms that rapidly emerged in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe in the latest two decades. Among the others, these include: business model partnerships, business platforms, incubators and hubs, public–private partnerships, agribusiness companies' foundations and spin-offs, short supply chains, community-supported agriculture and other community self-organizing experiences. Building upon the recent literature and the five selected papers in this special issue, the authors discuss what is novel in these organizations and why, when and how they emerge and evolve over time. Design/methodology/approach: the authors identify three elements that, when considered together, explain and predict the emergence and evolution of these new organizational forms: institutions, strategies and learning processes. Findings: the authors demonstrate that societal actors seeking to (re)design these new organizational forms need to consider these three elements to combine the pursuit of their interests of their own constituencies with the sustainable development goals (SDGs). Originality/value: Taking stock from the literature, the authors invite future research on new organizational forms to take explicitly the pursuit of the SDGs into consideration; to build upon a process ontology; and to deeply reflect on our positionality of scientists studying and sometimes engaging in these organizations.
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Howard M, Yan X, Mustafee N, Boehm S, Hopkinson P, Charnley F, Pascucci S (2020). Seven Tools for the Circular Economy: from Linear Flows to Systems Value Recapture. International Society for Circular Economy (IS4CE). 6th - 7th Jul 2020.
Borrello M, Pascucci S, Cembalo L (2020). Three propositions to unify circular economy research: a review.
Sustainability (Switzerland),
12(10).
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Three propositions to unify circular economy research: a review
Transitioning into a circular economy (CE) has been recently proposed as an agenda for reconciling global industrial systems with natural equilibria, but the current understanding of CE is ambiguous among scholars. Informed by recent growing CE literature, this study summarizes through three key propositions a set of indisputable insights emerging from the CE debate. In particular, the paper: remarks how CE takes stock of concepts of other schools of thought to drive policy interventions; depicts CE as a systemic transition of global industrial systems; and highlights the role of eco-effectiveness to upgrade business-centered approaches to sustainability. The proposed propositions are expected to contribute to reducing ambiguities in the CE debate and to convey coherence to future research.
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Olivares Tenorio ML, Pascucci S, Verkerk R, Dekker M, van Boekel TAJS (2020). What does it take to go global? the role of quality alignment and complexity in designing international food supply chains.
Supply Chain Management,
26(4), 467-480.
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What does it take to go global? the role of quality alignment and complexity in designing international food supply chains
Purpose: in this paper, a conceptual and methodological framework based on empirical evidence derived from the case of the Colombian Cape gooseberry (CG) supply chain is presented. Using this case study, this paper aims to contribute to the extant literature on the internationalization of food supply chains by explicitly considering the alignment of quality attributes and supply chain complexity as key elements to understand the process. Design/methodology/approach: This research has been designed to be qualitative, inductive and exploratory, thus involving multiple data gathering methods and tools. More specifically, during the first stage of the empirical analysis, this study has mapped and analysed preferences and perceptions of product quality at both the consumer and supply chain levels. Then, this paper has analysed the degree of alignment and complexity in the supply chain and finally, this study has derived scenarios for the internationalization of the supply chain. Findings: the results indicate tensions between supply chain actors related to quality attribute alignment and complexity, which have the potentials to impact the internationalization scenarios of the CG supply chain. Particularly the findings highlight how alignment and complexity of sourcing and product quality attributes can affect supply chain design strategies in different internationalization pathways of a niche food commodity. Research limitations/implications: the findings have implications in terms of supply chain design perspectives. In fact, while an approach, which would consider only a transactional or governance perspective would have tackled the problems of misalignment – for example, between farmers and wholesalers or wholesalers and international traders/retailers – it would have ignored the problem of alignment caused at the retailing and consumption stage. In the attempt to internationalize the CG supply chain, farmers, processors and traders are misaligned in relation to the preferences of the targeted final consumers, Dutch/Western European consumers in the case. Practical implications: Given the misalignment issues, this paper identifies a step by step approach as the most suitable pathway to design an internationalized supply chain because it allows the CG commodity supply chain to develop the potential market of credence quality-attribute by supporting the health-promoting compounds of the fruit. In this way, the CG supply chain could also progressively scale up and work on solving its misalignment issues by building a coordination structure of the chain, with quality control and logistics likely led by large retailers. Social implications: the study indicates that a process of internalization related to a scenario of a “globalized commodity” can only emerge through processes of coordination and integration at the production level, likely led by forms of producers (farmers) associations or a network of producers and traders, leading to strong marketing activities and scale up in terms of volumes. This has profound social implications and calls for rethinking how this study designs the internationalization of niche commodity supply chains. Originality/value: Through the application of a mixed methodology approach, in which conceptual, qualitative and quantitative methods have been combined, this paper has been able to identify alternative scenarios to the internationalization and the scale-up of a niche food commodity supply chain, with implications for its design and governance. More specifically in the conceptual model, the different scenarios have been related to the risk of misalignment. The model also identifies alternative pathways of internationalization which may or may not arise according to the way complexity unfolds. In the approach, this study has unpacked complexity by looking into two key dimensions: transactional complexity and quality-attribute complexity.
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2019
Pancino B, Blasi E, Rappoldt A, Pascucci S, Ruini L, Ronchi C (2019). Partnering for sustainability in agri-food supply chains: the case of Barilla Sustainable Farming in the Po Valley.
Agricultural and Food Economics,
7(1).
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Partnering for sustainability in agri-food supply chains: the case of Barilla Sustainable Farming in the Po Valley
The objective of the paper is to understand the process of designing a multi-stakeholder partnership in the adoption of sustainable innovations in value chains. More specifically, the focus is on the design of feasible types of horizontal agreements and contractual formulas to be implemented in the agri-food supply chain in order to introduce sustainable agricultural practices. To this purpose, the Barilla Sustainable Farming initiative, which is currently in the first phase of designing an MSP, is used as a case study.
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2018
Lerro M, Vecchio R, Caracciolo F, Pascucci S, Cembalo L (2018). Consumers' heterogeneous preferences for corporate social responsibility in the food industry.
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management,
25(6), 1050-1061.
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Consumers' heterogeneous preferences for corporate social responsibility in the food industry
This study reveals the consumer side of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the food industry, exploring awareness, preferences and willingness to pay for CSR of a representative sample of Italian households. The results clearly indicate that Italian consumers reveal a high level of awareness within clear, though heterogeneous, preferences for CSR initiatives. Five consumers' groups were identified: ‘environmentalists’, ‘pro-socials’, ‘collectivists’, ‘animal friends’ and ‘selfish health centered’. Furthermore, the study reveals consumers' willingness to pay a premium price to reward food companies addressing their concerns and expectations in terms of CSR. Findings offer insights for business managers on how to promote CSR, developing communication and information strategies focusing on specific needs and personal relevance within a group of consumers.
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Trienekens J, van Velzen M, Lees N, Saunders C, Pascucci S (2018). Governance of market-oriented fresh food value chains: export chains from New Zealand.
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van der Werlf S, Trienekens J, Hagelaar G, Pascucci S (2018). Patterns in sustainable relationships between buyers and suppliers: evidence from the food and beverage industry.
INTERNATIONAL FOOD AND AGRIBUSINESS MANAGEMENT REVIEW,
21(8), 1023-1043.
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2017
Materia VC, Pascucci S, Dries L (2017). Are In-House and Outsourcing Innovation Strategies Correlated? Evidence from the European Agri-Food Sector.
Journal of Agricultural Economics,
68(1), 249-268.
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Dentoni D, Poldner K, Pascucci S, Gartner WB (2017). Consumer entrepreneurship: What is it? When, how, and why does it emerge?. In (Ed)
Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth, 187-218.
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Consumer entrepreneurship: What is it? When, how, and why does it emerge?
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Borrello M, Caracciolo F, Lombardi A, Pascucci S, Cembalo L (2017). Consumers' perspective on circular economy strategy for reducing food waste.
Sustainability (Switzerland),
9(1).
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Consumers' perspective on circular economy strategy for reducing food waste
The current linear system of production and consumption is unsustainable. In the food sector, despite the fact that valuable natural resources are intensively used to produce and distribute food products, little is done to upcycle residues generated along the supply chain. Circular economy strategies are crucial for restructuring the take-make-dispose model through the active participation of all actors of supply chains. However, little is known about consumers' willingness to participate in circular economy. A structured questionnaire was submitted to a representative sample of Italian households to assess the willingness of consumers to be actively involved in closed loops aiming at reducing food waste. Consumers are involved by returning their organic food waste to retailers in exchange for discounts on the purchase of animal products. The organic food waste returned enters in the production process of animal products. A choice experiment was designed to analyse alternative programs. Two scenarios were presented: one with a traditional technology (composting), and a second one with a radically innovative technology (insects as feed). Preferences and trade-offs, in monetary terms, among attributes were computed. Results depict a comprehensive portrait of the potential participation of consumers to closed loops inspired by the principles of circular economy.
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Pascucci S, Duncan J (2017). FROM PIRATE ISLANDS TO COMMUNITIES OF HOPE: Reflections on the circular economy of food systems. In (Ed)
Sustainable Food Futures: Multidisciplinary Solutions, 186-200.
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FROM PIRATE ISLANDS TO COMMUNITIES OF HOPE: Reflections on the circular economy of food systems
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Fischer A, Pascucci S (2017). Institutional incentives in circular economy transition: the case of material use in the Dutch textile industry.
Journal of Cleaner Production,
155, 17-32.
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Institutional incentives in circular economy transition: the case of material use in the Dutch textile industry
The aim of this paper is to gain insight into how requirements for transitioning to circular economy creates new organizational forms in inter-firm collaborations, and ultimately how they stimulate the emergence of new institutions enhancing sustainability. Two strands of literature, one on circular economy and one on institutional analysis, provide the theoretical background for this research. Currently a clearly formulated and unified theory on the institutions of circular economy is lacking. Therefore this research compares and contrasts empirical evidence from cases derived from the textile industry in the Netherlands, and concepts derived from institutional analysis and literature on circular economy to inductively build a cohesive conceptual framework. Using information from cases we identified two pathways to transition into circular economy and to manage circular material flows. We define these pathways Status Quo arrangements (SQ), when firms focus on optimizing up-cycling technologies and infrastructure in their circular relations and collaborations, and Product as Service arrangements (PAS), to indicate a focus on providing products in service contracts. Chain coordination, contracting, and financial mechanisms were identified as key organizational elements for creating new pathways to transition into circular materials flows. However in analyzing these elements we also highlight differences between SQ and PAS arrangements. SQ arrangements may have implications at the level of formal rules, for example by creating a new industry standards for up-cycled fabrics. PAS arrangements may have wider implications, for example by reshaping ownership in service contracts and creating cascading activities. Moving ownership to the supply chain will result in increased responsibility for materials and will create an incentive for improving quality of products, including their environmental performance. This is expected to generate positive socio-environmental impacts at a system level as well. Moreover PAS arrangements may have bottom up effects at a formal institutional level, resulting in alteration and creation of formal rules, for example in terms of new approaches to the ownership of materials.
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Dentoni D, Pascucci S, Poldner K, Gartner WB (2017). Learning “who we are” by doing: Processes of co-constructing prosocial identities in community-based enterprises.
Journal of Business Venturing,
33(5), 603-622.
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Learning “who we are” by doing: Processes of co-constructing prosocial identities in community-based enterprises
© 2017 Elsevier Inc. This study investigates how members in community-based enterprises (CBEs) engage in processes of co-constructing their collective prosocial identities. Based on an inductive analysis of 27 organizations that were formed explicitly as communities and sought to build alternative forms of production and consumption through innovative ways to pool and recombine resources, we found that all of the CBEs engaged in distributed experimentation that lead to epiphany sense-making. These two approaches triggered and enacted collective processes of shifts in identity or identity persistence. We advance a processual model that identifies approaches for how members of CBEs either embrace epiphanies in identity shifts or limit and react to epiphanies in identity persistence.
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Duncan J, Pascucci S (2017). Mapping the Organisational Forms of Networks of Alternative Food Networks: Implications for Transition.
SOCIOLOGIA RURALIS,
57(3), 316-339.
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Nuhoff-Isakhanyan G, Wubben EFM, Omta OSWF, Pascucci S (2017). Network structure in sustainable agro-industrial parks.
Journal of Cleaner Production,
141, 1209-1220.
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Blok V, Thijssen S, Pascucci S (2017). Understanding Management Practices in Business Incubators: Empirical Evidence of the Factors Impacting the Incubation Process.
International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management,
14(04).
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Miralles I, Dentoni D, Pascucci S (2017). Understanding the organization of sharing economy in agri-food systems: evidence from alternative food networks in Valencia.
Agriculture and Human Values,
34(4), 833-854.
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Understanding the organization of sharing economy in agri-food systems: evidence from alternative food networks in Valencia
Despite the proliferation of sharing economy initiatives in agri-food systems, the recent literature has still not unravelled what sharing exactly entails from an organizational standpoint. In light of this knowledge gap, this study aims to understand which resources are shared, and how, in a heterogeneous set of sharing economy initiatives in the context of food and agriculture. Specifically, this study compares the organization of various forms of alternative food networks (AFNs), which are recognized to be frugal forms of sharing economy initiatives (i.e. locally based, small-scale and with limited use of information technology), in terms of leadership, bureaucracy, shared resources and participants’ engagement. Data from a comparative case study across 18 AFNs identify five sharing economy models of AFNs with distinctive shared resources and organizational mechanisms: consumer groups; commercial community gardens; as well as network-based, privately owned and publicly owned self-consumption community gardens. These models also display notable differences in terms of their origins, participants’ goals and constraints which, to some extent, may be associated to the nature of their organization. Findings inform policy-makers, AFNs’ leaders and stakeholders—especially those seeking to support innovative models towards sustainable transitions—on how to tailor institutional norms and develop networks to meet the heterogeneous needs of different typologies of sharing economy initiatives in agri-food systems.
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2016
Abebe GK, Bijman J, Pascucci S, Omta SWF, Tsegaye A (2016). 6. Diverging quality preferences along the supply chain: implications for variety choice by potato growers in Ethiopia. In (Ed)
Quality and innovation in food chains, 119-140.
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Pascucci S, Fischer A (2016). Institutional incentives in circular economy transition: the case of material use in the Dutch textile industry.
Journal of Cleaner Production DOI.
Borrello M, Lombardi A, Pascucci S, Cembalo L (2016). The Seven Challenges for Transitioning into a Bio-based Circular Economy in the Agri-food Sector.
Recent Patents on Food Nutrition & Agriculturee,
8(1), 39-47.
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Dicecca R, Pascucci S, Contò F (2016). Understanding reconfiguration pathways of agri-food value chains for smallholder farmers.
British Food Journal,
118(8), 1857-1882.
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Understanding reconfiguration pathways of agri-food value chains for smallholder farmers
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. – Smallholder farmers often deal with lack of information and knowledge, weak financial capacity and limited collaboration and network orientation. This is hampering their ability to adopt or co-develop innovation, and to participate in value chain exchanges. This calls for using intermediary organizations. The purpose of this paper is to understand how innovation intermediaries engage with smallholder farmers and provoke value chain reconfigurations.
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. – the authors systematically review literature to draw cases on intermediaries operating in the agri-food sector in several geographical and socio-economic contexts. The authors then adopt a theory building from cases approach to identify relationships between smallholder farmers and innovation intermediaries, and their effects in the reconfiguration of value chains.
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. – Consultants, knowledge transfer organizations (KTOs) and broker organizations (BOs) are the three typologies of intermediaries identified. While consultants facilitate change by modifying the way smallholders engage in transactions with their buyers and input providers, KTOs focus on farmers engagement in the value chain by stimulating the formation of knowledge platform or partnership. BOs operate in a similar way as compared to KTOs but mainly by forming and facilitating access to informal networks.
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. – the authors build a framework in which relationships between typologies of intermediary organizations and types of innovation processes are connected with changes at value chain level.
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. – the authors highlight how diverse forms of intermediations may stimulate not only smallholder farmers’ participation in innovation networks but also value chain reconfigurations.
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2015
Dentoni D, Bitzer V, Pascucci S (2015). Cross-Sector Partnerships and the Co-creation of Dynamic Capabilities for Stakeholder Orientation.
Journal of Business Ethics,
135(1), 35-53.
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Dentoni D, Pascucci S, Migliore G (2015). Entrepreneurship in Consumption and the Role of Sharing.
Academy of Management Proceedings,
2015(1).
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de-Magistris T, Pascucci S, Mitsopoulos D (2015). Paying to see a bug on my food.
British Food Journal,
117(6), 1777-1792.
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Paying to see a bug on my food
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. – the purpose of this paper is to examine the role of the European Novel Food Regulation (ENFR) on consumers’ acceptance of and willingness to pay (WTP) for radical food innovations. The research question is focussed on determining whether the ENFR is hampering the market potential of insect-based food products in the European Union (EU). The authors position this question within the domain of regulatory barriers related to food innovations.
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. – Using a choice experiment, the authors assess the presence and relevance of these failures through the analysis of consumers’ acceptance and WTP for insect-based food products with different product attributes directly imposed by the ENFR. Namely, the authors assess the effect of the visualization of insects in the product, the use of logo, and nutritional information.
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. – This paper highlights the risk of regulatory failures for novel foods in the EU, such as insect-based food products due to the ENFR.
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Pascucci S, Dries L, Karantininis K, Martino G (2015). Regulation and organizational change in the governance of agri-food value chains.
British Food Journal,
117(10).
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Pascucci S, Dentoni D, Mitsopoulos D (2015). The perfect storm of business venturing? the case of entomology-based venture creation.
Agricultural and Food Economics,
3(1).
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Materia VC, Pascucci S, Kolympiris C (2015). Understanding the selection processes of public research projects in agriculture: the role of scientific merit.
Food Policy,
56, 87-99.
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Pascucci S, Materia VC, Kolympiris C (2015). Understanding the selection processes of public research projects in agriculture: the role of scientific merit.
Food Policy,
56, 87-99.
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Cembalo L, Lombardi A, Pascucci S, Dentoni D, Migliore G, Verneau F, Schifani G (2015). “Rationally Local”: Consumer Participation in Alternative Food Chains.
Agribusiness,
31(3), 330-352.
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2014
Arinloye D-DAA, Pascucci S, Linnemann AR, Coulibaly ON, Hagelaar G, Omta OSWF (2014). Marketing Channel Selection by Smallholder Farmers.
Journal of Food Products Marketing,
21(4), 337-357.
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Cicatiello C, Pancino B, Pascucci S, Franco S (2014). Relationship Patterns in Food Purchase: Observing Social Interactions in Different Shopping Environments.
Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics,
28(1), 21-42.
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de-Magistris T, Pascucci S (2014). The effect of the solemn oath script in hypothetical choice experiment survey: a pilot study.
Economics Letters,
123(2), 252-255.
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van der Horst H, Pascucci S, Bol W (2014). The “dark side” of food banks? Exploring emotional responses of food bank receivers in the Netherlands.
British Food Journal,
116(9), 1506-1520.
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The “dark side” of food banks? Exploring emotional responses of food bank receivers in the Netherlands
Purpose– the purpose of this paper is to address how food, social status as well as the interactions at the food bank induce emotions in receivers, such as shame, gratitude and anger. Since early 2000s a steadily growing number of low-income and/or over-indebted households in the Netherlands alleviate their situation with food donations from local food banks. Such food banks collect from companies edible food that would otherwise have gone to waste. The growing demand for food assistance indicates it is a welcome contribution to the groceries in many households. However, receiving food assistance as well as eating the products forces the receivers to set aside embodied dispositions towards food and norms about how to obtain food. Furthermore, it places them in interactions of charitable giving that may be harmful to the self-esteem of receivers.Design/methodology/approach– the paper is based on a qualitative study at a food bank in the Netherlands, consisting among others of in-depth interviews with 17 receivers of food assistance, observations and several interviews with volunteers.Findings– of all emotions that were expressed during the interviews, shame appeared as the most prominent. Particularly issues of shame emerged in relation to all three food-bank-related experiences: the content of the crate, the interaction with volunteers and lastly the understanding of one's positioning in a social hierarchy. While shame can be a very private emotion – even talking about being ashamed can be shameful – it is also an utterly social emotion.Originality/value– This research is among the few ones explicitly addressing emotional emotions related to receivers in food bank.
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2013
Abebe GK, Bijman J, Pascucci S, Omta O (2013). Adoption of improved potato varieties in Ethiopia: the role of agricultural knowledge and innovation system and smallholder farmers’ quality assessment.
Agricultural Systems,
122, 22-32.
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CECHIN A, BIJMAN J, PASCUCCI S, ZYLBERSZTAJN D, Onno O (2013). DRIVERS OF PRO‐ACTIVE MEMBER PARTICIPATION IN AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVES: EVIDENCE FROM BRAZIL.
Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics,
84(4), 443-468.
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Gerdessen JC, Pascucci S (2013). Data Envelopment Analysis of sustainability indicators of European agricultural systems at regional level.
Agricultural Systems,
118, 78-90.
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Dries L, Pascucci S, Török Á, Tóth J (2013). Open Innovation: a Case‐study of the Hungarian Wine Sector.
EuroChoices,
12(1), 53-59.
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Pascucci S, de-Magistris T, Dries L, Adinolfi F, Capitanio F (2013). Participation of Italian farmers in rural development policy.
European Review of Agricultural Economics,
40(4), 605-631.
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Wubben EFM, Fondse M, Pascucci S (2013). The importance of stakeholder-initiatives for business models in short food supply chains: the case of the Netherlands.
Journal on Chain and Network Science,
13(2), 139-149.
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2012
Cechin A, Bijman J, Pascucci S, Omta O (2012). Decomposing the Member Relationship in Agricultural Cooperatives: Implications for Commitment.
Agribusiness,
29(1), 39-61.
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Cechin A, Bijman J, Pascucci S, Zylbersztajn D, Omta O (2012). Quality in Cooperatives versus Investor‐owned Firms: Evidence from Broiler Production in Paraná, Brazil.
Managerial and Decision Economics,
34(3-5), 230-243.
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2011
Pascucci S (2011). Factors affecting farmers' networking decisions.
Journal on Chain and Network Science,
11(1), 7-17.
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Pascucci S, De Magistris T (2011). Institutional Innovation and Public Extension Services Provision: the Marche Regional Administration Reform in Central Italy.
The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension,
17(3), 267-281.
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Enzing C, Pascucci S, Janszen F, Omta O (2011). Role of open innovation in the short- and long-term market success of new products: evidence from the Dutch food and beverages industry.
Journal on Chain and Network Science,
11(3), 235-250.
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Pascucci S, Gardebroek C, Dries L (2011). Some like to join, others to deliver: an econometric analysis of farmers' relationships with agricultural co-operatives.
European Review of Agricultural Economics,
39(1), 51-74.
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Pascucci S, de-Magistris T (2011). The effects of changing regional Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation System on Italian farmers’ strategies.
Agricultural Systems,
104(9), 746-754.
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2010
Capitanio F, Coppola A, Pascucci S (2010). Product and process innovation in the Italian food industry.
Agribusiness,
26(4), 503-518.
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2009
Capitanio F, Coppola A, Pascucci S (2009). Indications for drivers of innovation in the food sector.
British Food Journal,
111(8), 820-838.
Abstract:
Indications for drivers of innovation in the food sector
PurposeThe purpose of the paper is to analyse the main dynamics of the Italian food system, focusing on the relationships between the inclination to innovate and a set of firm characteristics.Design/methodology/approachThe empirical analysis includes two steps. In the first, principal component analysis is carried out in order to identify factors that can explain the features that differentiate Italian food firms. In the second phase the role of such factors on innovation behaviour is quantified by means of a logit model.FindingsThe empirical analysis showed that, in the Italian food sector, innovation adoption follows different patterns when product or process innovation is considered. In particular, the probability of introducing product innovation is influenced by the quality of human capital, the geographical context and, to a lesser extent, the age of the firm.Research limitations/implicationsThe research is restricted in so far as it only considers the Italian food sector. Because the data survey is representative only at the level of the manufacturing industry as a whole and excludes firms with fewer than ten employees, the analysis for the food sector can only be indicative.Practical implicationsThis paper provides a useful source of knowledge on the innovative behaviour of Italian firms. This highlights the need to provide for diversified intervention strategies to stimulate and enforce innovation in the Italian food sector.Originality/valueThe research provides some initial insight into firm perspectives in the role of innovations to enhance firms’ market competitiveness.
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