Overview
- Presents latest research at the interface of sustainable food chains and economic ecosystems
- Includes new perspectives on sustainable tourism
- Provides evidence from across Europe
Part of the book series: Cooperative Management (COMA)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Henk Kievit is Faculty Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship, Governance & Stewardship as well as Program Director of the Executive MBA programs Food & Innovation/Business & IT/Public & Private Tracks at Nyenrode Business University, The Netherlands. His research includes a variety of topics in (social) entrepreneurship, governance of society, innovation in the circular economy, network- and eco-system organization, and sustainability marketing. He teaches in executive MBA and MSc programs. He is Professor of Organization & Innovation in Regional Eco-systems at the Christian University of Applied Sciences, Ede, The Netherlands, and Visiting Professor at the Silesian University of Technology, Poland. He has published in internationally refereed scientific journals and contributed to scientific and academic books on social venturing entrepreneurship, sustainability, corporate governance and innovation and business eco-systems. He has held senior management positions in the international business of information technology, family (venture) philanthropy and impact investments organizations.
Gert van Dijk is Distinguished Professor of Social Venturing and Cooperative Economics at TIAS, School for Business and Society, Tilburg University. He is Director of the Netherlands Institute of Cooperative Entrepreneurship and Visiting Professor at the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania, CIHEAM-MAICh. and co-founder of Kucheza, a Dutch company establishing New Generation Cooperatives in agricultural modernization projects. He is Emeritus Professor of Cooperative Business Administration and Management at Nyenrode Business Universiteit, Emeritus Professor of Microfinance and Microinsurance at the same university, and Emeritus Professor of Theory and Practice of Cooperation in the Department of Marketing at Wageningen University. He was Director General of the Netherlands Council of Cooperatives, President of the European Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives and a member of the Board of Directors of Rabobank.
George Baourakis is the Director of the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania, CIHEAM–MAICh since June 2012, and the Studies and Research Coordinator of the Business Economics and Management Department of CIHEAM-MAICh since 1989. He has co-ordinated and participated in a large number of EU (FP 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th, INTERREG I, II and III-Archimed, MED, ENPI CBC MED, Tempus, Phare, Life, Lifelong Learning, Leonardo Da Vinci, European Social Fund, etc), international and national-regional research projects. He is Affiliate Professor in Marketing and Supply Chain Management, at the Centre of Entrepreneurship, Nyenrode University, The Netherlands, while he has also been appointed Distinguished Research Fellow in food marketing management at several universities. He has published numerous papers in internationally refereed scientific journals, presented extensively at international conferences and authored/co-authored several scientific and academic books and special issues which have been distributed by renowned publishing houses.
Constantin Zopounidis is Professor of Financial Engineering and Operations Research at the Technical University of Crete (Greece), Distinguished Research Professor at Audencia Nantes, School of Management (France), Senior Academician of the Royal Academy of Economics and Financial Sciences of Spain, and President of the Financial Engineering and Banking Society (FEBS). He has edited and authored 70 books with international publishers and more than 400 research papers in scientific journals and volumes, conference proceedings and encyclopedias, in the areas of finance, accounting, operations research and management science. In recognition of his research work, he has received several awards from international research societies such as the International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making, the Decision Sciences Institute, the MOISIL International Foundation, ESCP Europe and the Hellenic Operational Research Society.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sustainable Food Chains and Ecosystems
Book Subtitle: Cooperative Approaches for a Changing World
Editors: Konstantinos Mattas, Henk Kievit, Gert van Dijk, George Baourakis, Constantin Zopounidis
Series Title: Cooperative Management
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39609-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-39608-4Published: 31 March 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-39611-4Published: 31 March 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-39609-1Published: 30 March 2020
Series ISSN: 2364-401X
Series E-ISSN: 2364-4028
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 153
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 43 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sustainability Management, Agricultural Economics, Tourism Management, Sustainable Development, Agriculture