Alignment between governance designs and quality management systems in European pork meat chains: A comparison between IKB (The Netherlands) and VPF (France)

International audience ; The objective of the communication is to explore the question of alignment between quality management systems (hereafter QMS) and governance designs in EU pork meat supply chains, based on a cross country comparison between VPF ('French Pig Meat', France) and IKB ('Integrated Chain Control', The Netherlands). According to the literature review, we propose an analytical grid based upon an original dimensionalization of QMS and governance designs. This allows us to extend the notion of alignment in considering simultaneously in two concrete case studies the interplay of... Mehr ...