… of the contractual relationship between two parties at successive stages in the vertical chain
… downstream product market, and the sales contract for the upstream product may affect the …

This paper focuses on the Italian beef market and chain organization after the bovine
spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) crises. This food scare, on the one hand, strongly affected …

… From the proposition of complementarity presented in this article, future studies can explore
the rationale related to vertical integration and the choice of market relations, considering …

… vertical integration and vertical contractual relationships more broadly. Transaction cost–based
theories of vertical … transaction costs and various contractual hazards that may arise with …

… of close vertical relationships between agricultural producers … the extent and quality of vertical
contractual systems between … motives of farmers to enter contractual relationships and the …

… from contractual relationships and toward vertical integration. The pressure toward vertical
… produces uncertainty in supply-chain relationships-that is, where the future states of those …

We endogenize the contract‐type choice in a vertically related market. We relate that choice
to the distribution of bargaining power between the upstream and downstream partner in …

… arguably essential if our understanding of 'trust' in contractual relations is to be advanced. …
It also is essential that this work identify means of isolating the effects of vertical restraints in …

… be considered the predominant theory of vertical integration. … or the details of contractual
relationships? Do opportunism … a decision to design contractual relationships in a particular way…

… By contrast, understanding the relationships between … on the principle that contractual
relationships are governed using combi… that in any given contractual relationship some aspects of …