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Table of contents | Introduction | Value chain structure | Foundation links | Process links | End links  | Anatomy of an enterprise | Features of SME | Specialty crops & trust | The nature of transactions | The nature of governance | Types of governance | Governance games | Alliance structure | Forming alliance networks | Enabling solutions | Crop production tools | Value-adding solutions | Metamediary functions | SEAPlant.Net websites | Glossary | Acknowledgements
Glossary

 Eucheuma Seaplant Value Chains and SME Alliances
SEAplant.net Technical Monograph No. 0804-6a

Glossary

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Biopolymer - Compound of high molecular weight synthesized by living organisms.

Carrageenan - Red algal galactan biopolymers produced by genera such as Kappaphycus, Eucheuma, Betaphycus, Gigartina, Chondrus and others.

DES - Dried Eucheuma Seaplants

Enterprise - a business entity that possesses resources and is recognized as having the legal capacity to undertake business transactions.

Core resources - the basis of an enterprise's competitive advantage. They comprise the unique “inelastic” component of resources that enable the enterprise to operate beyond the dictates of simple supply-demand dynamics in the market environment.

Firm resources - support business functions of an enterprise They are so designated in the sense that they are “solid” and are necessary for the effective functioning of an enterprise.

Governance - systems and mechanisms by which enterprises and transaction systems are directed and controlled.

IT – Information Technology

Liquid resources - media of exchange that can be used by business organizations as they undertake transactions.

Metamediary – an enterprise that provides multi-vendor, multi-product, multi-user tools and solutions to value chain participants. These can be offered directly by the metamediary or through the metamediary by alliance network partners.

PES – processed eucheuma seaweed (a.k.a. E407a).

PHT – post-harvest treatment.

Phycocolloid - Complex polysaccharide biopolymers produced by algae (e.g. agar, alginates and carrageenan).

Seaplant - Any photosynthesizing organism that lives in seawater

Seaweed - Common name applied to most marine macroalgae

SFDM - Salt free dry matter

Strategic alliance (SA) - a business organization comprised of two or more enterprises (e.g. SME) that combine elements of their core resources and other resources within long-term trust-governance systems to achieve competitive advantage as they jointly undertake transactions in specified value-chain segments.

Transaction (business) - a logical unit of business that is conducted by two or more business organizations; that involves the transfer of liquid resources (media of exchange) according to mutually accepted systems of governance; and that reaches an equilibrium point that generates a computable success or failure state.

Value-chain - series of value-adding functions that connect through governed transactions and result in the supply and sale of products.