Acting under spatial restrictions: Success factors of German local food-marketing networks

British Food Journal

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 285-293

  Heer, Ines ^a   Mann, Stefan ^b  

^a Federal Office of Agriculture   (Switzerland)

^b AGROSCOPE RECKENHOLZ TÄNIKON RESEARCH STATION ART   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Critical success factors; Food products; Germany; Regional marketing

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949566400     PISSN: 0007070X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00070701011029156     Document Type: Article

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