Transforming Global Commodity Chains: Actor Strategies, Regulation, and Competitive Relations in the Dutch Cut Flower Sector

Economic Geography

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 79-99

  Patel Campillo, Anouk ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chain governance; Competitive relations; Cooperatives; Cut flowers; Global commodity chains; Global production networks (GPN); Global value chains (GVC); Regulation; The Netherlands

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVE; AGROINDUSTRY; COMMODITY MARKET; COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; FLOWER; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; REGULATORY FRAMEWORK;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 78650935359     PISSN: 00130095     EISSN: 19448287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-8287.2010.01102.x     Document Type: Article

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