Summary
This organisational study examines how the underlying logics of digital platforms—connectivity, sharing, and integration—can enable sustainability and circular-economy practices across agricultural value chains, even when platforms are not explicitly designed with sustainability as a primary goal. Using Agritrack, a digital platform in agriculture, as a case study, the authors demonstrate that these logics activate distinct sustainability mechanisms: connectivity drives collaborative initiatives, sharing enables monitoring and transparency, and integration coordinates optimisation across interconnected actors. The findings advance understanding of how platformisation can support circular transitions in food systems.
UK applicability
The findings may be applicable to UK agricultural digital platform adoption and circular-economy policy priorities, particularly for supporting interconnected supply chains and resource optimisation. However, the abstract does not specify the geographic context of Agritrack or its regulatory environment, limiting direct transferability assessment.
Key measures
Qualitative assessment of how platform logics activate sustainability practices; identification of circular-oriented configurations and their mechanisms for narrowing and slowing resource flows
Outcomes reported
The study identified how three platform logics (connectivity, sharing, and integration) activate sustainability practices within agricultural value chains. The research demonstrated that circular-oriented configurations emerge from combined activation of these logics, contributing to input optimization, waste reduction, and slowing of resource degradation.
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