identifying network effects on economic outcomes is first discussed, followed by solutions to this problem that have been put …

for assessing fairness in agricultural markets. We use network exchange theory to define power from the dependencies that … participate in agricultural networks affect the degree to which they are dependent on others within the network. Dependency, in …, network exchange theory provides a method for assessing constraints in choices and, hence, the fairness of agricultural …

agribusiness systems. The article provides an assessment of three Brazilian beef alliances which have distinctive governance … role on the definition of the governance arrangements. Horizontal governance depends upon relational density to deliver … coordination, on the other hand, vertical governance relies on the hierarchical leadership of a “captain” that guarantees …

The aim of this paper is to find out the economic efficiency of an associative unit in fruits processing and trading … their life, and get products with higher value added consumer demand; establishing a network for collecting local fruits …

-level federations and use a stochastic meta-frontier cost function model, which enables the decomposition of meta-frontier efficiency … into two components: technical efficiency and technology gap ratios. The operational differences between JAs in urban and … rural areas are investigated by comparing their efficiency and economies of scale and scope. The main results are summarized …

focus on the German market for energy efficiency consultants, as an emerging and subsidized sector in which the service …

Recent studies emphasize the role of the network structure of production input interlinkages for a wide range of … network formation. Here we provide evidence on the evolution of production input interlinkages on the most granular level of … economy. We review the main empirical properties of the Japanese production network level and find that these features are …

in network theory facilitate the examination of an asymmetric transport network. In a scale‐free network, the chance of … observing extremes in network connections becomes higher than the Gaussian distribution predicts and, therefore, it explains the … to other cities on the transportation network can boost its local economy and explains the city‐size distribution as a …