Supply chains in sub-Saharan Africa: A decision support system for small-scale seed entrepreneurs

Decision Sciences

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 737-759

  Martens, Bobby J ^a   Scheibe, Kevin P ^a   Bergey, Paul K ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Africa; Decision Support Systems; Entrepreneur; Seed; Supply Chain Modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866608633     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: 15405915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.2012.00370.x     Document Type: Article

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