The paper provides a framework that focuses on the linkages between several key dimensions of supply chain organization and performance of perishable tropical food products. The focus is on the relationship between governance regime and quality management. However, two other but related...

The impacts of collective action on smallholders' commercialisation are the subject of a heated global debate. This study aims at bringing some empirical evidence into this debate. To do so we collected a unique set of bio-economic data, in 2003 and 2006, comprising information from 50...

Produce quality is one of the features of any commodity that everyone has an opinion about, but quality is a complex concept. In one hand, quality is the consumer perception about a certain commodity an as well it is a relationship between all the intrinsic attributes of the commodity. It is...