Silvicultural contracting in British Columbia: A transaction cost economics analysis

Forest Science

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 272-279

  Wang, Sen ^a   Van Kooten, G C ^b  

^a PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Contractual forms; Forest policy; Forestry institutions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032937938     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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