Vertical Markets and Cooperative Hierarchies

The Role of Cooperatives in the Agri-Food Industry
Softcover Nachdruck of hardcover 1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-90-481-7031-9
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, 285 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 458 g

This book collects sixteen essays that provide clarification to issues pertinent to contemporary cooperatives. Twenty three internationally recognized scholars of agricultural cooperatives from a variety of disciplines such as industrial organization, finance, sociology, networks, and political theory contributed theoretical work and empirical observations from different countries.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nilsson, Jerker

Karantininis, Kostas

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft: Theorie & Allgemeines
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Fertigungsindustrie Sonstige Fertigungsindustrien
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Primärer Sektor Agrarökonomie, Ernährungswirtschaft
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftssysteme, Wirtschaftsstrukturen
• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Nachhaltige Landwirtschaft
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I. THE COOPERATIVE: BETWEEN MARKET AND HIERARCHY.-1. Cooperatives: Hierarchies or Hybrids?; .-2. The Network Form of the Cooperative Organization – An Illustration with the Danish Pork Industry; .-3. Networks, Innovation and Performance – Evidence from a Cluster of Wine Cooperatives (Languedoc, South of France); .-II. GOVERNANCE.-4. Conversions and Other Forms of Exit in U.S. Agricultural Cooperatives; .-5. The Structure of Marketing Cooperative – A Members' Perspective; .-6. Agency and Leadership in Cooperatives – Endogenizing Organizational Commitment; .-III. INTERNAL ORGANIZATION.-7. Lock-in of Farmers in Agricultural Cooperatives – Reviving the Effect of Exit by Means of Constitutional Amendments; .-8. Two Vignettes Regarding Boards in Cooperatives versus Corporations; .- 9. Regulation, Governance and Capital Structure in Cooperatives; .- IV. CONDUCT.- 10. Cooperative Forward Integration in Oligopsonistic Markets – A Simulation Analysis of Incentives and Impacts; .- 11. European Dairy Cooperative Strategies – Horizontal Integration versus Diversity; .-12. Sales Distortion in Heterogeneous Cooperatives; .-13. Do Consumers Care about Cooperatives? A Franco-Swedish Comparative Study of Consumer Perceptions; .-V. PERFORMANCE.-14. The Horizon Problem Reconsidered; .-15. The Horizon Problem in Agricultural Cooperatives – Only in Theory?; .-16. Performance of Cooperatives and Investor–Owned Firms – The Case of the Greek Dairy Industry; .

Über Autor(innen)

Kostas Karantininis is research professor of Economics of Agri-Food Supply Chains & Cooperatives at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Denmark.

Jerker Nilsson is professor of cooperative business at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden.