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Provedor de dados: 	31	
País: 	United States	
Título: 	Variability in Quality and Management Practices in the Mango Supply Chain from Costa Rica	
Autores: 	Zuniga-Arias,   Guillermo; Ruben,   Ruerd.	
Data: 	2007-07-02	
Ano: 	2007	
Palavras-chave: 	Variability; Supply Chain; Quality; Management; Agribusiness.	
Resumo: 	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 argued that homogeneous  management  activities will increase the quality of the commodity.  Reducing waste for example, but  in a more generic way will reduce the  variability of the commodity plus meeting the  costumer needs and preferences.  In this experimental article we try to disentangle the  managerial  activities  that  have  an  effect  on  the  variability  of  the  quality.    For  this  purpose we have  make use of the dispersion statistics  such as standard deviation,  standard error, deviation coefficient, meta-analysis and a regression analysis.  We conducted a survey  and collected 51  interviews of different actors  in the supply  chain of  mango from Costa Rica, beside, we collected 10  mangos  from  each actor  interview to analyze the intrinsic attribute of quality. We developed a proxy of quality  as the ratio between the brix and the ph.    We conclude that quality  variability  is affected positively related to  technologic  variations and socio-economic variations.  In the case of the mango supply chain from  Costa Rica the management differences among actors are dependent on the closeness to  the consumer, therefore, actors closer to the consumer  have  higher  variability  in their  indexes than those close to the production site.	
Tipo: 	Conference Paper or Presentation	
Idioma: 	Inglês	
Identificador: 	25929

http://purl.umn.edu/9398	
Editor: 	AgEcon Search	
Relação: 	European Association of Agricultural Economists&gt;103rd Seminar, April 23-25, 2007, Barcelona, Spain

103rd EAAE Seminar 'Adding Value to the Agro-Food Supply Chain in the Future Euromediterranean Space'	
Formato: 	24

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