Relational contracts and adaptation: Application to a pork producer contract

Agribusiness

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 342-354

  Karantininis, Kostas ^a   Graversen, Jesper T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

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EID: 73449124428     PISSN: 07424477     EISSN: 15206297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/agr.20162     Document Type: Article

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