How we Think

European citizen and consumer attitudes and preferences regarding beef and pork.

Agricultural Value Chains in Developing Countries A Framework for Analysis

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A critical review of Knowledge-Based Engineering: An identification of research challenges

Systems for sustainability and transparency of food supply chains - Current status and challenges

Alignment between chain quality management and chain governance in EU pork supply chains: a Transaction-Cost-Economics perspective.

Transdisciplinary processes have been the subject of research since several decades already. Transdisciplinary processes are aimed at solving ill-defined and socially relevant problems. Many researchers have studied transdisciplinary processes and have tried to understand the essentials of transdisciplinarity. Many engineering problems can be characterised as ill-defined and socially relevant, too. Although transdisciplinary engineering cannot widely be found in the literature yet, a transdisciplinary approach is deemed relevant for many engineering problems. With this paper we aim to present an overview of the literature on research into transdisciplinary processes and investigate the relevance of a transdisciplinary approach in engineering domains. After a brief description of past research on transdisciplinarity, implications for engineering research, engineering practice, and engineering education are identified. In all three areas, the current situation is described, while challenges are identified that still exist. The paper ends with a research agenda for transdisciplinary engineering.

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Transdisciplinary systems engineering: Implications, challenges and research agenda

In this book the results are presented of a comprehensive inventory of pork chains that has been conducted through expert interviews and in-depth case studies. The main focus of the book is on how well diverse and fragmented supply in the European pork sector matches differentiating demands for pork products in rapidly evolving markets. One of the central topics discussed in the book is management of quality in diverse mainstream and specialty European pork chains. Inter-enterprise information systems, governance forms, logistics and sustainability aspects of European pork chains are also presented, as well as a number of interesting innovations in the chains. 'European pork chains' consists of four chapters that discuss the European pork chain as a whole and nine chapters that present case studies. The latter comprise three specialty pork chains (Iberian ham from Spain, Mangalica pork from Hungary, and organic pork from the Netherlands) and three regional pork chains in Europe (a Greek integrated chain, the German 'Eichenhof' chain and the French 'Cochon de Bretagne' chain). To enable comparison with chains outside Europe, a review of pork chains in China, Canada, Brazil and South Africa has been included.

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Papers

Alignment between chain quality management and chain governance in EU pork supply chains: a Transaction-Cost-Economics perspective.

Transdisciplinary systems engineering: Implications, challenges and research agenda

European pork chains : diversity and quality challenges in consumer-oriented production and distribution

Concurrent Engineering in the 21st Century : Foundations, Developments and Challenges

Requirements of supply chain management in differentiating European pork chains