Table 1
Red meat sub-systems
Sub system Red meat example
Goals and values Production versus consumer driven organizations, e.g. farm support requirements for animals and
retailer consumer driven specification
Human resources (HR) Types of organisation along the chain. e.g. family farms, producer private companies, retailer public
companies
Structural Size of organisation along the chain, e.g. individual farmer through to a retailer with tens of thousands of
employees
Managerial Type of leadership, e.g. independent farmer, risk taking entrepreneur at processor, professional employee
manager at retailer