The Objective:
To analyze the governing models of the meat chain in different countries and their relationships with performance.
The Narration:
The relationship among meat chain agents (breeders, feeders and packers) has been instrumental in generating business models, economic incentives and degrees of efficiency. Expansion and contraction cycles may be associated with changes in the dynamics of integration of agents and the degree of consensus with the public sector. The internationalization of large corporations in the markets has increased the complexity for building common views and public-private partnerships along the value chain. Understanding the reason for each model and the success of the meat chain in each country is fundamental to design global governance structures.
The Starters:
- Why do we have different ways of organizing the meat chain? Is the national culture important to explain this?
- What are the issues generating the greatest tension between the private interest and the public interest?
- How are large corporations included in the sectoral agenda? and what about the relation between the country brand and private brands?