The food and agricultural value chains have experienced constant changes throughout the last decades having important organizational and economic implications that have shaped global markets. Among these changes, a rapid globalization and the increasingly openness of international trade have...

While organization theories acknowledge the influence of specific assets on dependence and increasingly represent the latter as a structure of mutual dependence (dependence of A on B and dependence of B on A), there is, to the best of our knowledge, no empirical test concerning the impact of...