The diverging understandings of quality by coffee chain actors. Insights from Colombian producers and Austrian roasters

Xiomara Fernanda Quiñones-Ruiz (2020) Sustainability 12(15), pp. 1-19. Open access. Abstract. This paper addresses the understandings of quality recognized by diverse actors along the coffee chain with focus on specialty coffee producers. In the specialty coffee niche, the assessment of (physical) quality acts as a coordination device among chain actors that enables the identification of divergences on how quality is practiced. This paper aims to uncover how quality attributes (e.g., p..