 Managing Perceived Risks through Supply Chain Relationships: An Empirical Study of the UK Beef SectorSusan A. Hornibrook and Andrew Fearne No 7724, 99th Seminar, February 8-10, 2006, Bonn, Germany from European Association of Agricultural Economists Abstract: This study offers an alternative to the traditional Transaction Cost Economics view of the treatment of information by viewing co-ordinated supply chains as a series of Principal-Agent relationships, and draws on Perceived Risk Theory to explain both consumer and organisational behaviour. Using a supply chain methodology, empirical evidence is presented of the perceived risks, associated management strategies and benefits for all members, including consumers/customers, for two co-ordinated supply chains for own brand fresh beef products in the UK, one in the retail sector and one in the foodservice sector. The results conclude that the establishment of the two co-ordinated supply chains reduces perceived risk for consumers and each participating organisation by increasing information on members' goals and behaviour, recognising perceived risk at each point and offering both positive and negative incentives to meet contractual requirements. Keywords: Agribusiness; Livestock Production/Industries; Risk and Uncertainty (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:eaae99:7724 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in 99th Seminar, February 8-10, 2006, Bonn, Germany from European Association of Agricultural Economists Contact information at EDIRC. |
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