Social capital and vertical ties in agrifood supply chains

Journal on Chain and Network Science

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-7

  Sporleder, Thomas ^a   Wu, Steven ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 38849169017     PISSN: 15691829     EISSN: 22244662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3920/JCNS2006.x060     Document Type: Article

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