Solidarity Purchasing Groups as social innovators

The marketisation of food and the rise of mass retailers have created an unbalanced supply chain where, above all, small producers and customers are weaker. In contrast to this scenario, in the last twenty years agriculture and food markets have become an increasingly relevant space for the experime...

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Autores: Arcidiacono, Davide, Maestripieri, Lara|||0000-0003-4710-1653
Tipo de documento: artigo
Data de publicação:2019
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositório:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglês
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Palavra-chave:Political consumerism
Solidarity purchasing groups
Buying power
Social innovation
Marginalisation
Consumismo político
Cooperativas de consumo solidario
Poder adquisitivo
Innovación social
Marginalización
Alternative Food Networks
Solidarity Purchasing Groups
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spelling Solidarity Purchasing Groups as social innovatorsan analysis of alternative food networks in ItalyCooperativas de consumo solidarioArcidiacono, DavideMaestripieri, Lara|||0000-0003-4710-1653Political consumerismSolidarity purchasing groupsBuying powerSocial innovationMarginalisationConsumismo políticoCooperativas de consumo solidarioPoder adquisitivoInnovación socialMarginalizaciónAlternative Food NetworksSolidarity Purchasing GroupsThe marketisation of food and the rise of mass retailers have created an unbalanced supply chain where, above all, small producers and customers are weaker. In contrast to this scenario, in the last twenty years agriculture and food markets have become an increasingly relevant space for the experimentation of innovative social practice in order to fix this anomaly and try to rebalance the distribution of value in the whole supply chain. Solidarity Purchasing Groups (SPGs) are one of these innovations and they could represent one of the most relevant tools to combat the buying power of mass retailers. However, the analysis in the paper shows that SPGs are social innovations that only partially achieve this goal of reducing the economic marginalisation of their suppliers by setting up an alternative distribution channel.La mercantilización del sector de la comida y la creciente importancia de los minoristas de masas han creado una cadena de suministro desequilibrada donde, sobre todo, los pequeños productores y los consumidores son más débiles. En contra de este escenario, en los últimos veinte años la agricultura y los mercados de proximidad se han ido situando como espacios relevantes de experimentación de prácticas sociales innovadoras con el objetivo de solucionar esta anomalía y de reequilibrar la distribución del valor en el conjunto de cadena de suministro. Las cooperativas de consumo solidario forman parte de estas experiencias innovadoras y pueden representar una de las medidas más relevantes para contrastar el poder de negociación de los minoristas de masa. No obstante, el análisis en este artículo muestra como las cooperativas de consumo solidario son innovaciones sociales que sólo consiguen parcialmente el objetivo de reducir la marginalización económica de sus proveedores al crear una cadena de suministro alternativa. 22019-01-0120192019-01-01Articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://ddd.uab.cat/record/215480https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.22325/fes/res.2019.26reponame:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UABinstname:Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaInglésengEuropean Commission https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000780 613261open accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Aquest document està subjecte a una llicència d'ús Creative Commons. Es permet la reproducció total o parcial, la distribució, la comunicació pública de l'obra i la creació d'obres derivades, sempre que no sigui amb finalitats comercials, i sempre que es reconegui l'autoria de l'obra original.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:ddd.uab.cat:2154802026-06-06T12:50:31Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Solidarity Purchasing Groups as social innovators
an analysis of alternative food networks in Italy
Cooperativas de consumo solidario
title Solidarity Purchasing Groups as social innovators
spellingShingle Solidarity Purchasing Groups as social innovators
Arcidiacono, Davide
Political consumerism
Solidarity purchasing groups
Buying power
Social innovation
Marginalisation
Consumismo político
Cooperativas de consumo solidario
Poder adquisitivo
Innovación social
Marginalización
Alternative Food Networks
Solidarity Purchasing Groups
title_short Solidarity Purchasing Groups as social innovators
title_full Solidarity Purchasing Groups as social innovators
title_fullStr Solidarity Purchasing Groups as social innovators
title_full_unstemmed Solidarity Purchasing Groups as social innovators
title_sort Solidarity Purchasing Groups as social innovators
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Arcidiacono, Davide
Maestripieri, Lara|||0000-0003-4710-1653
author Arcidiacono, Davide
author_facet Arcidiacono, Davide
Maestripieri, Lara|||0000-0003-4710-1653
author_role author
author2 Maestripieri, Lara|||0000-0003-4710-1653
author2_role author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Political consumerism
Solidarity purchasing groups
Buying power
Social innovation
Marginalisation
Consumismo político
Cooperativas de consumo solidario
Poder adquisitivo
Innovación social
Marginalización
Alternative Food Networks
Solidarity Purchasing Groups
topic Political consumerism
Solidarity purchasing groups
Buying power
Social innovation
Marginalisation
Consumismo político
Cooperativas de consumo solidario
Poder adquisitivo
Innovación social
Marginalización
Alternative Food Networks
Solidarity Purchasing Groups
description The marketisation of food and the rise of mass retailers have created an unbalanced supply chain where, above all, small producers and customers are weaker. In contrast to this scenario, in the last twenty years agriculture and food markets have become an increasingly relevant space for the experimentation of innovative social practice in order to fix this anomaly and try to rebalance the distribution of value in the whole supply chain. Solidarity Purchasing Groups (SPGs) are one of these innovations and they could represent one of the most relevant tools to combat the buying power of mass retailers. However, the analysis in the paper shows that SPGs are social innovations that only partially achieve this goal of reducing the economic marginalisation of their suppliers by setting up an alternative distribution channel.
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