Measuring the fragility of agribusiness value chains : a case study of the South African lamb chain
| dc.contributor.author | Jordaan, Daniel Du P. S. | en_ZA |
| dc.contributor.author | Kirsten, Johann | en_ZA |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-10-25T08:40:55Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-10-25T08:40:55Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
| dc.description | CITATION: Jordaan, D. D. P. S. & Kirsten, J. F. 2019. Measuring the fragility of agribusiness value chains : a case study of the South African lamb chain. International Food and Agribusiness Management Review, 22(1):137-154, doi:10.22434/IFAMR2017.0103. | |
| dc.description | The original publication is available at https://www.wageningenacademic.com | |
| dc.description.abstract | The ability to determine the fragility of agribusiness value chains is valuable to agribusines management practitioners and scholars in a context where risk and uncertainty are increasingly pervasive, consequential and unpredictable. The paper argues for determining the fragility of a chain to adverse events rather than trying to predict the probability and impact of such events. The paper specifically proposes a framework to detect and quantify non-linear consequences in response to progressively deteriorating chain fragility factors. The paper’s approach is a novel alternative to the traditional value chain ‘risk assessment’. Application of the framework to the South African lamb chain reveals that a number of specific factors, like quality and safety performance and cash flow position, have consistently high fragility scores throughout the chain while some factors are uniquely localized to a specific role-player or activity, which highlights the techno-economic uniqueness of individual activities in a chain. | en_ZA |
| dc.description.uri | https://www.wageningenacademic.com/doi/10.22434/IFAMR2017.0103 | |
| dc.description.version | Publisher's version | |
| dc.format.extent | 18 pages ; illustrations | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Jordaan, D. D. P. S. & Kirsten, J. F. 2019. Measuring the fragility of agribusiness value chains : a case study of the South African lamb chain. International Food and Agribusiness Management Review, 22(1):137-154, doi:10.22434/IFAMR2017.0103 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1559-2448 (online) | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1096-7508 (print) | |
| dc.identifier.other | doi:10.22434/IFAMR2017.0103 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/123296 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_ZA | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher | Wageningen Academic Publishers | |
| dc.rights.holder | Authors retain copyright | |
| dc.subject | Agricultural industries -- Risk assessment -- South Africa | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Business logistics -- Risk assessment -- South Africa | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Lamb (Meat) -- South Africa | en_ZA |
| dc.title | Measuring the fragility of agribusiness value chains : a case study of the South African lamb chain | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Article | en_ZA |