o:29544 Are Certified Supply Chains More Socially Sustainable? A Bargaining Power Analysis en 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 Keywords: Bargaining power, market power, transaction costs, institutions, social sustainability indicator 1552099 10.1515/jafio-2019-0039 1552101 1542-0485 2023-05-17T11:34:02.906Z 44 no 46 Paul Muller...[et al.] person Bojan Ristić Univerzitet u Beogradu Ekonomski fakultet 8682855 0000-0002-9883-8914 Žaklina Stojanović Univerzitet u Beogradu Ekonomski fakultet person 12848231 0000-0003-2878-9835 application/pdf 763413 https://phaidrabg.bg.ac.rs/o:29544 no yes 1 70 1552253 11A03 Journal of Agricultural and Food Industrial Organization 19 2 177 192 2021