Governance and financial aspects of chain-collaboration: Lessons from practice

Abstract

The characteristics of chain environments have an influence on the way parties collaborate. In this article, two practical cases are described: (1) a program for optimizing administrative and logistic processes for the export chain of agricultural goods from the Netherlands to non-EU-countries and (2) a program for optimizing the chain of soil-monitoring for potato eelworm disease. These cases show examples of the way chain-collaboration is established in practice and governance and financial issues that arise. In the conclusion, based on the cases, we present several guidelines that might help to avoid/overcome the governance and financial issues in a chain-optimization project or program.