Food supply chains increasingly rely on big-data management solutions to foster collaboration across the food supply chain and improve business performance. However, little is known about collaboration practices that actors on the digital food supply chain adopt to solve problems such as food waste, or about the drivers and barriers related to the digital transformation of the food supply chain. Most of food waste studies rely on quantitative analysis, which cannot reveal relevant details about the tensions and dynamics of collaboration. We conducted a qualitative study drawing on eighteen in-depth interviews - of managers of large multinational and local organizations covering different and relevant roles on the digital food supply chain - to investigate how organizational and food supply chain processes are affected by the digitalization of the operations along the food supply chain. By triangulating emerging findings with literature on supply chain management we discuss different views about collaborative practices for food waste prevention in the food supply chain and provide insights on how supply chain design and firms' operations have been re-conceptualized with the usage of digital technologies and on the institutional forces both limiting (barriers) and fostering (drivers) the diffusion of the digital food supply chain.

食品供应链越来越依赖大数据管理解决方案来促进整个食品供应链的协作并提高业务绩效。但是，对于数字食品供应链上的参与者为解决诸如食物浪费之类的问题而采取的协作实践，或者与食品供应链数字化转型相关的驱动因素和障碍，人们所知甚少。大多数食物垃圾研究都依赖于定量分析，而定量分析无法揭示有关合作的紧张关系和动态的相关细节。我们根据十八次深度访谈进行了定性研究-对大型跨国公司和地方组织的经理进行了采访，这些经理涵盖了数字食品供应链中的不同和相关角色-以调查运营数字化如何影响组织和食品供应链流程食物供应链上 通过用供应链管理方面的文献对新兴发现进行三角剖析，我们讨论了有关食品供应链中预防食物浪费的协作实践的不同观点，并提供了有关如何通过数字技术和信息技术重新构思供应链设计和企业运营的见解。机构力量既限制（障碍）又促进（推动因素）数字食品供应链的扩散。