A case study of the Mexican avocado industry based on transaction costs and supply chain management practices

Jaime Arana Coronado (), Jos Bijman., Onno Omta. and Alfons Oude Lansink ()
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Jaime Arana Coronado: Researcher and professor in Finance and Business Economics at the Colegio de Postgraduados.
Jos Bijman.: Associate professor in Business Administration at Wageningen University
Onno Omta.: Chaired professor in Business Administration at Wageningen University.

Economía: teoría y práctica, 2015, vol. 42, issue 1, 137-165

Abstract: The present study is based on transaction cost economics and supply chain management to analyze how the adoption of supply chain management practices in the Mexican avocado industry reduces the transaction costs between producers and packers. Two sources of information are used: interviews from different stakeholders and reviews of documents. Conclusions show that the adoption of three practices, product standardization, supplier partnership, and information exchange, has been a solution when challenges such as enhancing quality, obtaining reliable supply, and coordinating supply and demand conditions, are faced in a supply chain.

Keywords: product standardization; supplier partnership; information exchange; collaboration; Persea americana Mill. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D21 D23 D74 D81 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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