A deteriorating food preservation supply chain model with downstream delayed payment and upstream partial prepayment

This paper investigates a food supply chain model consisting of the supplier, food producer and multi-retailer of a deteriorating item under fully delay-in-payment and partial advance payment scheme. The deterioration rate of raw material is dependent on temperature and other environmental factors with respect to time. Here, the food producer prepares food after collecting the raw material from the supplier and then storing it in cold storage. The refrigeration cost is dependent on the occupied volume in the cold storage (where the products are preserved for freshness) and power consumption. The supplier offers delay-in-payment to stimulate the food producer to buy more raw material (which minimizes the holding cost and earns more revenues), whereas the food producer takes the partial advance payment on purchase cost from the retailers to ensure the order quantity. A mathematical model is developed to obtain optimal production time and the optimal number of deliveries so that the average profit of the food producer is maximum. Finally, a numerical example and sensitivity analysis of the key parameters are provided to illustrate and test the feasibility of the proposed model.

‘In the night kitchen’: Gender, identity and artisanal work

Using the theoretical lens of identity work, the objective of the article is to explore how the identity of an entrepreneurial, female, artisan food producer is constructed and enacted. Emphasis is given to a gendered examination of how artisan and entrepreneur as facets of identity co-exist, compete or integrate. The article relies on a phenomenologically oriented case study that comprises numerous sources including primary data from multiple, in-depth, interviews. The data are used to examine identity work undertaken by the case subject across the following categories: dramaturgical, socio-cognitive, psycho-dynamic, discursive and symbolic. The article makes a modest contribution to furthering understanding of the female entrepreneurial identity from a novel perspective.

Detection and Analysis of Plant Leaf Diseases Using Convolutional Neural Network

India is the second largest food producer in the world. Agriculture plays an important role in Indian economy. Plants that are grown may experience many diseases which if not detected might lead to reduction of crops and further leads to the reduction of quality and quantity of plant products to be delivered to the market. Diseases can occur and the farmer may not be in a condition to identify the disease and he might be unaware of which pesticide to be used and the precautions to be taken in order to over-come it in future. This paper describes as how to detect common diseases a plant might get and the remedies that can be used to overcome them. Convolution neural network is used to classify the plant diseases and suggesting the remedies.

Behavior-based pricing between organic and general food enterprises

Purpose The pursuit of healthy and high-quality organic food has gradually become a trend. However, some researchers do not believe that the quality of organic food is higher than general food. Consumers’ changed preference for different quality food will also affect the sales strategy of food producer. The purpose of this paper is to consider behavior-based pricing (BBP) and decision-making problems between organic and general food enterprises, based on consumers’ heterogeneity. Design/methodology/approach In this study, two different types of consumers are considered: consumers without preference difference and consumers with an organic food preference. This paper sets up two two-stage hoteling differential pricing models in the duopoly market, including organic and general food enterprises. Then, the optimal loyal price and poaching price of the two types of enterprises are solved, and the influence of each parameter on the pricing, market and profit of the two enterprises is analyzed. Findings This paper finds that, with the increase of the initial market share, the pricing strategies of organic food enterprises change from a loyal price lower than the poaching price to a loyal price higher than the poaching price, whereas the general food producer has the opposite pricing strategy. Furthermore, the difference in consumption utility between the two food types has a positive influence on the price of organic food, and a negative influence on the price of general food. In contrast, the consumer share without preference difference has a negative effect on organic food prices and a positive impact on the price of general food. Originality/value The contribution is constructive as no prior research has focused on the BBP and decision-making problems between organic and general food, and it considers the two types of consumers. Besides, the results also provide guidelines for choosing marketing strategies for organic and general food enterprises.

Avatar-Based Management as Help System to Entrepreneurs in Using Emerging Tools

The chapter deals with issues related to the construction and development of the digital economy in one particular region: Republic of Armenia. This country is considered the digital sector of which may become the largest in the country in the next five years. The digital revolution affects all areas of the Armenian economy. Prior to this, the Armenian economy was known as the mining industry, a food producer, and a food. Today, according to statistics, Armenia's leading mining and energy companies are already one step ahead of their colleagues in the economically successful implementation of digital technology. Naturally, in such successes of digital transformations, there are key components. The authors hope that the examples of development and thought about the driving springs of these transformations, chosen in consideration of the interests of the development of the Russian digital economy, can be interesting and useful for Russian enterprises that have started their digital transformations.

A Game Theory Coopetitive Perspective for Sustainability of Global Feeding

Throughout this study, the authors propose possible agreements among different food producers, in order to develop a new better conceived diet for the future generations, by using a coopetitive approach and game theory. Specifically, the authors shall consider food producers and sellers of vegan (respectively, vegetarian) and non-vegan (or non-vegetarian) food. The coopetitive approach used by the authors provides a mathematical game theory model, which could help producers of vegan food a simpler entry in the market and free significant publicity. Meanwhile, the model could allow producers of non-vegetarian food a smooth transaction to vegetarian and vegan production. In particular, authors propose an agreement setting among McDonald's and Muscle of Wheat, because they think that Muscle of Wheat cannot enter a global market without the help of a large food producer already in the market. The game theory model represents an asymmetric R&D alliance between McDonald's and Muscle of Wheat.