Objetivo This research project aims to investigate contract development and supply chain management within agri-food chains in Moldova and the Ukraine. A key question for research is how restructuring and privatisation of the agri-food chain has impacted on competition, the internal and external organisational structures of markets and firms, incentives for innovation, investment and technology adoption and firm level performance. So far only superficial attention has been given to this question despite the importance of the agri-food sectors to total employment, output and trade in Moldova and the Ukraine. Moreover, factors explaining firm level variations in performance at the processing level and the role of supply chain management in leading to these variations in performance have received little attention.The project will seek to rectify these weaknesses through two stages of research. First the partners will seek to quantify the relationship between firm level performance and supply chain structures, through an econometric analysis of survey data collected during the project, focusing on contractual relationships, transaction costs, and geographical market structures. Second, a series of case studies will analyse the contractual, organisational and supply chain practices of innovative / successful Moldavian and Ukraine agri-food companies. These case studies will focus specifically on the development of contractual arrangements; the forms of contractual enforcement mechanisms and institutions used to support exchange; the impact of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI); the firm and supply chain organisational structures adopted to support and facilitate exchange transactions and stimulus programmes offered.The analysis will contribute to researchers' theoretical understanding of the problems, causes and implications of contractual and relationship problems and foreign direct investment upon individual economic agents choice of exchange mechanisms, organisational structure, and investments decisions within the agricultural and agri-food supply chain of transition economies. This has been highlighted as a key, if under-researched, issue in both the development and transitional economies literature (European Commission, 1995; Gow and Swinnen, 1998).This analysis will also be of practical benefit to both food manufacturers (by developing a series of "lessons of best practice" for the development of contractual and business relationships and organisational and supply chain structures) and policy makers (by presenting appropriate recommendations for future market restructuring, regulation, and privatisation). Programa(s) IC-INTAS - International Association for the promotion of cooperation with scientists from the independent states of the former Soviet Union (INTAS), 1993- Tema(s) 7 - Economics, Social and Human Sciences OPEN - OPEN Call Convocatoria de propuestas Data not available Régimen de financiación Data not available Coordinador University of Plymouth Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección Drake Circus PL4 8AA Plymouth Reino Unido Ver en el mapa Coste total Sin datos Participantes (3) Ordenar alfabéticamente Ordenar por aportación de la UE Ampliar todo Contraer todo Dnepropetrovsk Academy of Management, Business and Law Ucrania Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección Naberezgnaya Lenina 18 320 070 Dnepropetrovsk Ver en el mapa Coste total Sin datos Institute of Management and Rural Development Moldavia Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección bd. Renasterii 10, 1 2005 Chisinau Ver en el mapa Coste total Sin datos Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Bélgica Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección de Croylaan 42 3001 Leuven Ver en el mapa Coste total Sin datos