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Introduction to symposium on the changing role of supermarkets in global supply chains: from seedling to supermarket: agri-food supply chains in transition

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Acknowledgments

This study was part-funded by the Australian Research Council (Project Nos. DP 0773092 and DP 110102299). Professor Lawrence was also part-funded by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2010-330-00159) and the Norwegian Research Council. We are grateful to Harvey James for support throughout the assembling of this Symposium, and the anonymous reviewers for each of the papers. We also thank Amy MacMahon for undertaking the final formatting of the papers in this collection.

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Burch, D., Dixon, J. & Lawrence, G. Introduction to symposium on the changing role of supermarkets in global supply chains: from seedling to supermarket: agri-food supply chains in transition. Agric Hum Values 30, 215–224 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-012-9410-x

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