..., it is differentiated between national and international QAPs. Policy implications are discussed. For the empirical analysis, a dataset of 50 Vietnamese fruit and vegetable processing firms is employed, which is based on a survey that we conducted between August and October 2005. We define fruit and vegetable...

...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...

... transactional relationships based on price competition. The insights from the Vietnamese vegetable supply chain demonstrate the simplicity of the principles of collaborative commerce and the ease with which they are adopted when the culture is conducive to collaboration and a partnership approach to trading...

...Peter J. Batt In the absence of the auction as the principal mechanism for setting price in the Perth fresh fruit and vegetable market, there is a great deal of distrust between growers and the market agents who receive and distribute their produce. While most growers generally transact with more...

... with its processing customers, but all produce sold for the retail trade passes through one of two marketing co‐operatives. The largest of these is Elgro, a limited company owned by its farmer members, which supplies the major multiples with fresh vegetables, including broccoli, all year round. Around...