https://phaidrabg.bg.ac.rs/o:29544 doi:10.1515/jafio-2019-0039 ISSN: 1542-0485 All rights reserved Abstract: Food Quality Schemes (FQS: organic and geographical indication products) are often supposed to be more sustainable by their political advocates. We explore the social sustainability advantage of FQS through the lens of supply chains’ bargaining power (BP) distribution. We propose an indicator synthesizing different sources underlying BP (competition-based, transactional, institutional) and counting two dimensions (fair BP distribution and adaptation capacity), that we apply to 18 FQS supply chains and corresponding reference. FQS perform better than their reference products on both dimensions. This better performance is due to a combination of sources. Funding source: This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation under grant agreement No 678024. Contributors: Muller, Paul; Böhm, Michael; Csillag, Péter; Donati, Michele; Drut, Marion; Ferrer-Pérez, Hugo; Gauvrit, Lisa; Gil, Jose M.; Hoang, Viet; Malak-Rawlikowska, Agata; Mattas, Konstadinos; Napasintuwong, Orachos; Nguyen, An; Papadopoulos, Ioannis; Ristić, Bojan; Stojanović, Žaklina; Török, Áron; Tsakiridou, Efthimia; Veneziani, Mario; Bellassen, Valentin Muller...[et al.], Paul Ristić, Bojan Stojanović, Žaklina 2021 eng Are Certified Supply Chains More Socially Sustainable? A Bargaining Power Analysis Journal of Agricultural and Food Industrial Organization 19(2) Keywords: Bargaining power, market power, transaction costs, institutions, social sustainability indicator info:eu-repo/semantics/article application/pdf 763413 bytes