Complementarity among alternative procurement arrangements in the pork packing industry

Journal of Agricultural and Food Industrial Organization

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Vukina, Tomislav ^a   Shin, Changmok ^b   Zheng, Xiaoyong ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Economies of scale; Organization of firms; Supply chain management

Indexed keywords

SUIDAE;

EID: 64749103331     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15420485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1542-0485.1252     Document Type: Article

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