Product differentiation and cooperative governance

Journal of Socio-Economics

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 327-333

  Borgen, Svein Ole ^a  

^a Norwegian Consumer Research Institute   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cooperative; Governance; Incentive problems; Product differentiation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955463848     PISSN: 10535357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2010.12.002     Document Type: Article

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