Governance in agrifood global value chain: a bibliometric analysis of the past 15 years
Résumé
The insertion of small rural producers in global value chains (GVCs) is an alternative for their survival. The sustainability of the agrifood GVC involving North and South contexts depends on how resources are allocated, which, on their end, depend on governance. Governance in terms of leader firm and governance transaction. However, the integration between these two types of governance is not clear. Our aim was to investigate the scientific field on “governance in agrifood global value chain”, and research gaps in it through a survey on the production of knowledge between the years of 2005 to 2019. Our descriptive results show that the research on the theme has increased over the years, with emphasis on the period between 2016 and 2018. Slightly more than half (53%) of the scientific articles on the subject were published by a group consisting of 10 countries, especially The United States, The United Kingdom and The Netherlands, highlighting the Wageningen University. Regarding the main journals, there is a concentration of the total number of publications in 10 main journals. This allowed us to identify that there was a scientific community interested in the area. The network graph showed that the field is developed by different and interdisciplinary perspectives and is organized into four main axes: 1) chain governance; 2) transaction governance; 3) horizontal relationships; 4) political and structural elements, involving different theories, such as Transaction Cost Economics and Economic Sociology. Studies that link chain governance and transaction governance are discrete, being linked by studies concerning upgrading, requiring further studies on the topic. Although the sustainability of the chain depends on both transaction and chain governance, this bibliometric study showed that there is a gap to be filled in this topic. This study contributes to the scientific knowledge on the field and efficiency of the North and South agrifood GVC as it reveals future perspectives and paths to be followed, such as studies on upgrading, vertical and horizontal relationships, governance of the global chain as well as concerns in terms of public policies.
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