@article{Abdirahman:144857,
      recid = {144857},
      author = {Abdirahman, Zam-Zam and Sauvee, Loic},
      title = {The Implementation of a Quality Management Standard in a  Food SME: A Network Learning Perspective},
      journal = {International Journal on Food System Dynamics},
      address = {2013-02},
      number = {1012-2016-81199},
      pages = {14},
      year = {2013},
      abstract = {In the modern agrifood economies, the development of  quality management standards is crucial, and food small and  medium enterprises (SMEs) usually face difficulties in  implementing them. In this context, the aim of the article  is two-fold. Firstly it is to craft an original analytical  framework in line with the literature on innovation  networks and related learning effects specifically devoted  to the study of quality management standards  implementation. Secondly the objective of the article is to  apply this framework to a specific food SME case in order  to test it and to identify the key network learning effects  that occur during the implementation of a quality  management standard, namely the ISO 22000 standard for food  safety. From this research, the practical output will be to  propose tools to enhance food SMEs’ innovative capacity,  through an improvement of their insertion in active formal  and/or informal innovation networks. These specific tools  will be especially targeted towards the strengthening of  learning processes between the SME and the partners  involved in the implementation.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/144857},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.144857},
}