... collaboration and how to enhance the roles of cooperative SCs in the vegetable industry in Vietnam. It also provides information for policymakers to support sustainable vegetable SC development and maintain its sustainability. Vegetable supply chain Cooperative supply chain Transaction costs Farmer...

... deployed to mitigate transaction cost risks in construction supply chains (CSC). Design/methodology/approach A theory-elaborating case study is used to investigate how regulatory, normative and mimetic neo-institutional pressures underpin SCRM strategies in state-led and private-led CSC in China...

...-GMO standards, with the intention of avoiding the presence of GMOs in their products. This paper aims to understand how the implementation of these new retailer-driven standards affects governance structures along the supply chain and the determinants of such change focusing on transaction cost...

...Ruerd Ruben; Dave Boselie; Hualiang Lu Purpose The paper seeks to understand the conditions that motivate Asian supermarkets' choices for vegetable sourcing through wholesale procurement or preferred supplier systems. Design/methodology/approach Insights from transaction cost theory are used...

... are more dependent on both their up‐stream and down‐stream trading partners and are more dissatisfied and less trusting of their exchange partners. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Performance monitoring Transaction costs Buyer‐seller relationships Customer satisfaction Trust Purchasing power Vietnam...

...Silke Boger; Jill E. Hobbs; William A. Kerr New institutional economics suggests that the development of institutions and the existence of transaction costs are important determinants of the speed and success of the transition from command to market systems. Investigates the development of hog...

... affect transaction characteristics and transaction costs, thereby leading to a change in vertical co‐ordination. A case study of the US grains industry provides an illustration of the framework. Implications for agricultural producers, producer groups and policy makers are discussed. Changes...

... and the price paid for the lambs. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Buyers Canada Conjoint analysis Meat Supply chain Transaction costs Different levels of the four transaction cost attributes were combined to produce hypothetical supply channel scenarios. The number of scenarios depends on the number...

.... Considers explicitly the nature of the relationships at each level of a marketing system, using methods derived from the transaction cost and marketing literatures. The methods focus on simple evaluations of transactions at each level of a system, and are applied to the marketing system for a fresh product...

... on aspects of marketing, economics, logistics, organizational behaviour, etc. Presents a framework from the economics literature which may be useful for those interested in understanding and exploring the concept of supply chain management. Describes the origins and development of transaction cost analysis...