Identifying critical success factors for the agri‐food cold chain's sustainable development: When the strategy system comes into play

With serious environmental, cost, and social concerns arising from emerging countries' rapid growth in agricultural food cold chain (AFCC), AFCC firms urgently require a set of comprehensive sustainable strategic solutions. Therefore, this research identified and modeled the critical success fa...

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Published inBusiness strategy and the environment Vol. 32; no. 1; pp. 444 - 461
Main Authors Su, Miao, Woo, Su‐Han, Chen, Xiaochun, Park, Keun‐sik
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Chichester Wiley Periodicals Inc 01.01.2023
Subjects
Agribusiness
Agricultural production
agri‐food cold chain
business strategy
critical success factors
Dominance
Environmental policy
Food
Food chains
Interdependence
Organizations
stakeholder pressure
Stakeholders
Strategy
Sustainability
Sustainability reporting
Sustainable development
Triple Bottom Line
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Summary:With serious environmental, cost, and social concerns arising from emerging countries' rapid growth in agricultural food cold chain (AFCC), AFCC firms urgently require a set of comprehensive sustainable strategic solutions. Therefore, this research identified and modeled the critical success factors (CSFs) that support the sustainable development of AFCCs. The study integrated institutional theory, stakeholder theory, and the triple bottom line model; it also surveyed cold chain experts from 16 different organizations in China and applied the adversarial interpretation structure model (AISM). This comprehensive analysis indicates that managing stakeholder pressure is the most motivating CSF of all strategies. This strategy eventually contributes to the sustainability of AFCC in China by driving other CSFs. Additionally, the study determined the degree of interdependence and dominance of different strategies. Thus, this study establishes a theoretical foundation for the sustainable improvement of AFCC organizations' business strategies and environmental policies.
ISSN:0964-4733
1099-0836
DOI:10.1002/bse.3154