The relationship between product quality and transaction costs with vertical coordination in DOC Rioja winegrape industry;La relación entre la calidad del producto y los costes de transacción asociados a la coordinación vertical en la industria del vino de DOC Rioja

Spanish Journal of Agricultural Research

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 281-293

  Fernandez Olmos M ^a   Rosell Martinez J ^a   Espitia Escuer, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Quality; Transaction cost; Vertical relationship

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350630127     PISSN: 1695971X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5424/sjar/2009072-419     Document Type: Article

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