Governing the coffee chain: The role of voluntary regulatory Systems

World Development

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2029-2044

  Muradian, Roldan ^a   Pelupessy, Wim ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Certification; Coffee; Coordination; Global commodity chains; Governance; Voluntary regulatory systems

Indexed keywords

COFFEE; COMMODITY MARKET; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; TRADE FLOW;

EID: 28244481078     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2005.06.007     Document Type: Article

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