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Coordination Without Vertical Integration: The Case of the French Food System

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Vertical Relationships and Coordination in the Food System

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Most of theoretical and empirical works dedicated to the analysis of economic coordination are implicitely based on the following dichotomy: coordination is supposed to be either the result of a purely market mechanism or the result of a contract linking different economic actors (the contract may be formal or non formal).

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Nefussi, J., Priolon, J. (1999). Coordination Without Vertical Integration: The Case of the French Food System. In: Galizzi, G., Venturini, L. (eds) Vertical Relationships and Coordination in the Food System. Contributions to Economics. Physica-Verlag HD. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-48765-1_24

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