Performance measurement of the agricultural marketing cooperatives: The gap between theory and practice

Review of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 446-469

  Soboh, Rafat A M E ^a,b   Lansink, Alfons Oude ^a   Giesen, Gerard ^a   van Dijk, Gert ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NYENRODE BUSINESS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 70350108673     PISSN: 10587195     EISSN: 14679353     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9353.2009.01448.x     Document Type: Review

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