Agricultural Supply Chain Management Research: Operations and Analytics in Planting, Selling, and Government Interventions

This book focuses on three essential elements of agricultural supply chains: Planting and Growing, Processing and Selling, and Government Interventions. For decades, most agricultural economists applied macro-economic theory in decisions pertaining to the optimization of food production and distribution. However, few researchers used micro-economic theory to examine how individual farmers respond to market information, incentive pricing mechanisms and different market structures in the trade of agricultural goods. Examining challenges in agricultural supply chain operations through the lens of micro-economic theory is imperative because it can enable policymakers and social enterprises to develop and design market information provision policy, incentive contracts and market structures for improving farmer and consumer welfare.

In each chapter, contributing authors motivate their research questions by providing the context and articulating the importance of their questions. They present their analysis to examine the respective research questions and explain their results. At the end of each chapter, they provide a short list of future research questions.

Onur Boyabatli is an Associate Professor of Operations Management and the holder of DBS Sustainability Fellow at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University. He is the Chair of the iFORM (Interface of Finance, Operations and Risk Management) Special Interest Group in the MSOM society. His research interests include socially-responsible supply chains, supply chain risk management, agricultural operations and supply chain finance. He is the co-editor of Handbook of Integrated Risk Management in Global Supply Chains (2011, Wiley).

Burak Kazaz is the Steven Becker Professor of Supply Chain Management and the Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence at Syracuse University’s Whitman School of Management. He is the Executive Vice President and President Elect of the MSOM Society, and serves as the Director of the Brethen Institute at Syracuse University. Dr. Kazaz’s research interests include risk mitigation, supply chain finance, and socially-responsible supply chains.

Christopher S. Tang is a UCLA Distinguished Professor and the holder of the Edward W. Carter Chair in Business Administration. His research interests include Supply Chain Risk Management and Socially Responsible Supply Chains.