Advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data and Machine Learning for the Sustainable Food Marketing

Dear Colleagues,

The topic of this Special Issue is the analysis of food marketing in relation to sustainability:  overviews, theories, issues, and aspects in the application of artificial intelligence (AI), big data, and machine learning. Some AI-related technologies allow us to interpret one or another mode of food marketing and sustainability to identify a particular set of problems and to seek a variety of solutions to those problems. Hence the importance of critical review or empirical studies of those AI-related technologies and how AI-related technologies affect the resulting practices for sustainable food marketing.

AI can be leveraged throughout sustainability development and AI can facilitate the process of value creation. Not only has AI significantly reduced firms’ R&D costs but it also accelerated the time to market of their new products. AI can deal with the increasing availability of data that are collected through online platforms. Big data facilitate the identification and exploitation of business opportunities with powerful AI algorithms. At a strategic level, AI technologies may reshape the strategy and business model of firms. This improvement would enable the startup to reduce delivery time, lower costs, and process higher volumes of video footage, thus reordering the basic elements of its business model. 

The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies enables various AI applications to have sustainable food marketing capabilities. AI applications continuously promote the continuous growth and expansion of the food market. However, AI technology’s advances in how to bring market efficiency and sustainable development is a critical issue.

Schools of thought that make up the field of AI and sustainable food marketing have undergone both the consolidation and application of their most relevant contributions and the criticism of some of the aspects of their implications or even their fundamental proposals.   This Special Issue invites empirical papers and theoretical contributions that focus on some of the following concepts:(the list is not exhaustive)

• Food marketing and its relation to management and strategy
• The application of AI for sustainable food marketing
• Innovative business model for sustainable food marketing
• Sustainable food marketing in SMEs and large companies
• Interfaces between AI and sustainable food marketing issues
• Knowledge, learning, AI, and sustainable food marketing issues
• Sustainable food marketing in the non-profit sector
• Sustainable food marketing in the social entrepreneurship
• New business incubators for sustainable food marketing
• Networks in sustainable food marketing
• Online sustainable food marketing and AI technologies
• The impact of public policy on sustainable food marketing
• Interdisciplinary approaches to the study of sustainable food marketing and AI
• Research methods for sustainable food marketing
• Food marketing and sustainable development

Dr. Chih-Wen Wu
Dr. Huei-Ting Tsai
Guest Editors

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• advances in artificial intelligence (AI)
• big data
• machine learning
• sustainable food marketing