Economically Motivated Adulteration in Farming Supply Chains

Retsef Levi
Retsef Levi
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1994-4875
Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142;
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Somya Singhvi
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Somya Singhvi
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3999-7189
Operations Research Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142;
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Yanchong Zheng
Yanchong Zheng
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6991-0649
Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142
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Retsef Levi

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1994-4875

Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142;

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Somya Singhvi

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Somya Singhvi

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Operations Research Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142;

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Yanchong Zheng

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Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142

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Published Online:22 Oct 2019https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2018.3215

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Received:October 20, 2017
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