Alignment between quality enforcement devices and governance structures in the agro-food vertical chains

Journal of Management and Governance

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 47-77

  Raynaud, Emmanuel ^a   Sauvee, Loïc ^b   Valceschini, Egizio ^a  

^a INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

^b ISAB   (France)

Author keywords

Brand name; Certification; Governance structures; Quality enforcement; Reputation; Vertical chains

Indexed keywords

EID: 22544434682     PISSN: 13853457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10997-005-1571-1     Document Type: Article

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