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Organizational Issues in the Agrifood Sector: Toward a Comparative Approach
Claude Ménard,Peter G. Klein +1 more
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In this article, the authors compare the economic organization of agriculture in the United States and the European Union and highlight the interaction between the institutional environment and the arrangements established to govern agricultural transactions.Abstract:
This paper outlines a research program comparing the economic organization of agriculture in the United States and European Union. Both have highly developed agricultural sectors but their organizational arrangements vary widely. Comparative analysis not only provides a broad set of firms and industries to compare, but also highlights the interaction between the institutional environment and the arrangements established to govern agricultural transactions. We first assess the common trend toward consolidation and vertical integration, turning next to the economic organization of formal and informal networks. While history and path dependence explain some of the variety among U.S. and European practices, other local conditions are important as well. We conclude by assessing the policy implications of recent changes in economic organization.read more
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New Institutions for Governing the Agri-food Industry
Claude Ménard,Egizio Valceschini +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that increasingly centralised modes of organisation are gaining ground in the coordination of transactions and that they are substituting private institutions for public policies, and they argue that these solutions should be assessed in a transaction cost perspective.
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Restructuring the agri-food value chains in post-socialistic Balkans
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the challenges and changes in the organizational and institutional setting of the agri-food value chains in post-socialist Balkan countries and apply various theoretical approaches to assess the competitiveness levels on each segment in the industry.
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Quality policy, market structure and investment behavior in the food marketing chain
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the quality in relation to consumer demand and market structure, and the potential problem of asset fixity at primary level, and discussed the policy implications of the different structures.
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Mapping Strategic and Sustainable Relevant Actors of Poultry Production and Business Using Stakeholder Network Analysis
Desni Triana Ruly Saragih,Meky Sagrim,Hendrik Fatem,Stepanus Pakage,Yosina Waromi,Daniel Yohanis Seseray,Aisyah Bauw,Hendrik Arwam,Miksen Sangkek,Deny Anjelus Iyai +9 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted a focus group discussion towards twenty-four various represented individuals, groups and mass organizations in the poultry development sector and employed Stakeholder Network Analysis to run the network and relationship between actors using the Pearson correlation coefficient and Hierarchical Clustering Analysis.
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Productive agglomeration and netchains: contributions to value creation in agroindustrial systems
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the connections between the approaches of productive agglomerations, collective actions and netchains for value creation in agroindustrial systems, seeking to demonstrate that this problematic cannot be treated in a unidimensional manner.
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Corporate Ownership Around the World
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present data on ownership structures of large corporations in 27 wealthy economies, making an effort to identify ultimate controlling shareholders of these firms, and suggest that the principal agency problem in large corporations around the world is that of restricting expropriation of minority shareholders by the controlling shareholders.
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The Future of U.S. Agricultural Cooperatives: A Neo-Institutional Approach
TL;DR: This paper examined the structural and strategic evolution of U.S. farmer cooperatives since the Helmberger and Abrahamsen (H&A) forecasts, and used recent developments in neo-institutional economic (organizational economic) theory to generate hypotheses regarding structural shifts in U. S. agricultural cooperatives.
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New Institutions for Governing the Agri-food Industry
Claude Ménard,Egizio Valceschini +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that increasingly centralised modes of organisation are gaining ground in the coordination of transactions and that they are substituting private institutions for public policies, and they argue that these solutions should be assessed in a transaction cost perspective.
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Transaction Costs as Determinants of Vertical Coordination in the U.S. Food Industries
TL;DR: In this article, a vertical coordination index incorporating industry input-output relationships and nonmarket arrangements is proposed to examine transaction cost effects on food industry vertical linkages, which supports the hypothesis that transaction costs are a primary motivation to vertically coordinate via non-market arrangements.
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