...Hepei Zhang; Wanglin Ma Purpose This study examines the impacts of marketing contracts (written contracts, verbal contracts and no contracts) on technical efficiency, taking citrus production in Jiangxi Province, China, as an example. Design/methodology/approach We first use a stochastic...

...Wanglin Ma; Awudu Abdulai Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the determinants of marketing contract choices including written contracts, oral contracts and no contracts, as well as to examine the impact of marketing contracts on net returns from apple production in China...