The importance of organizational issues to assess the success of international development project has not beenfully considered yet. An analysis of the literature on the project success definition, focused on the successcriteria and success factors, was carried out by surveying the contribution...

Fresh fruits are always recommended as ingredients in healthiest diets. However, there is a tendency forconsumers to move their consumption towards transformed fruits, which are integrated in many food products.Quite commonly fresh fruits are difficult to handle and store but they also do not...

Research on organizational and inter‐organizational trust has become an important field in management andmarketing literature, as it is perceived as a pivotal aspect of business transactions. However, clarifications arestill needed on the issue of whom we trust; is the person whom we are...

In the absence of reliable a priori information, choosing the appropriate theoretical model to describe anindustry’s behavior is a critical issue for empirical studies about market power. A wrong choice may result inmodel misspecification and the conclusions of the empirical analysis may be...

The debate about the governance of complex systems of production represents a rich branchof the literature of applied organization theory. The particular application to agro‐relatednetworks is a relevant example since agriculture plays new roles in modern society. The coreof the analysis is...

Since 2005, the implementation of a traceability system is mandatory to all European food chain operators. Thebalance of costs to build and maintain the traceability system and benefits of traceability depends on the firm'straceability objectives and its resources, as reflected in...

The paper assesses the ability of French wineries to prevail over the crisis of French wine in the years 2000.Corporations are distinguished from co‐operatives:Over the 2000‐2006 period in spite of sales fluctuations, French wineries did not increase their financial debtlevel substantially....

Based on recent development of international economics, this paper aims to evaluate in what extent privatestandards impact trade, and more precisely trade of French agri‐food firms.Our paper explores an original "handmade" database identifying French agri‐food firms which are certified...

This paper analyzes the relationship between Global Wine Industry Share Price Indexes and composite stockmarket indexes using a Threshold Vector Error Correction Model (TVECM), aiming to investigate if investmentsin the wine sector play a role in determining financial risk and return to...

This statistical reference presents current and historical data on U.S. foreign trade in agricultural products. Detailed tables cover commodity and country information for fiscal years 1984 and 1985, including value, quantity, principal .markets £or agricultural exports and imports and exports...