Bargaining power and revenue distribution in the Costa Rican mango supply chain: A gaming simulation approach with local producers

Journal on Chain and Network Science

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 143-159

  Zúñiga Arias, Guillermo ^a   Meijer, Sebastiaan ^a   Ruben, Ruerd ^b   Hofstede, Gert Jan ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bargaining power; Contracts; Costa Rica; Gaming simulation; Mango; Transactions

Indexed keywords

EID: 38849145758     PISSN: 15691829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3920/JCNS2007.x084     Document Type: Article

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