A5010819186- Cooperative Studies and Economics
- Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
- Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
- Global Health and Surgery
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- scientometrics and bibliometrics research
- Organic Food and Agriculture
- Wine Industry and Tourism
- FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance
- Financial Crisis of the 21st Century
- Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
- Scientific Computing and Data Management
- Academic Publishing and Open Access
Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences
2023
UCLouvain
2019-2022
Life Science Institute
2022
Processes of research evaluation are coming under increasing scrutiny, with detractors arguing that they have adverse effects on quality, and support a culture competition to the detriment collaboration. Based three personal perspectives, we consider how current systems lock early career researchers their supervisors into practices deemed necessary progress academic careers within frameworks. We reflect main areas in which changes would enable better evolve; many align open science. In...
As the 2009 dairy crisis drew attention to situation of farmers in Europe, extent strategical power left cooperatives increasing size is a frequently raised issue. Four collect 97% milk Walloon Region (in southern part Belgium). Two them integrated agro-food multinationals. We decided analyze trajectories exploring alternatives delivery these mainstream cooperatives. focused on territories situated east Region, where farming represents 75% revenues. Alternatives consist either processing...
Agri-food cooperatives evolved towards an increasing diversity of cooperative models, understood as modes horizontal and vertical coordination the value chain. This historical investigation informs theory practice on strategic relevance models for prospective pathways chain development. The paper draws encountered in trajectories consolidation Walloon dairy over last sixty years. A SWOT analysis based accounts outlines strengths weaknesses several dimensions underpinning their long-term...
Drawing on an analysis of the Walloon dairy sector, this paper aims at bringing novel insights coexistence issue in agrifood transition studies. Whereas most studies explore farm models, our study focuses value chains, particular cooperatives. In Region, new cooperatives emerged, as substitute or complement to incumbent vertically integrated This cooperative models enabler toward product diversification. Dairy are hybrid actors: economic agents market one hand, structure collective agency...
The academic journal publishing model is deeply unethical: today, a few major, for-profit conglomerates control more than 50% of all articles in the natural sciences and social sciences, driving subscription open-access fees above levels that can be sustainably maintained by publicly funded universities, libraries, research institutions worldwide. About third costs paid for papers profit these dominant publishers' shareholders, about half them covers to keep system running, including...
Drawing on a historical study of the Walloon dairy cooperatives, this paper analyses how complex cooperative dynamics define lock-ins in their trajectories. We consider cooperatives as firms active markets and structures collective action gathering farmers-members around common strategic goals. Williamson's framework from New Institutional Economics accounts for embeddedness firms' strategies governance wider context development. Under influence development, Ostrom's IAD (Institutional...