Vertical Markets and Cooperative Hierarchies
Vertical Markets and Cooperative Hierarchies comprises a selection of sixteen newly written 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. The book is divided into five Parts: I. Cooperatives: between markets and hierarchies; II. Governance; III. Internal organizational issues; IV. Conduct of cooperatives; and V. Cooperative performance.
| ISBN: | 9781402040726 |
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 285 |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Herausgeber: | Karantininis, Kostas Nilsson, Jerker |
| Verlag: | Springer Netherland |
| Veröffentlicht: | 05.12.2006 |
| Untertitel: | The Role of Cooperatives in the Agri-Food Industry |
| Schlagworte: | Agri-Food Chains Agri-food industry Marketing agriculture co-operatives cooperatives organization value chain vertical integration |
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.