Artikel

Agricultural cooperatives

The economic nature of agricultural cooperatives is explained by means of a logical continuation of the organizational economics rationale for family farms. The traditional explanations of the importance of family farms is discussed, and embedded in a broader framework which considers their transaction cost-economizing effect and their limitations in terms of limited ability to scale up production and to reach adequate market power. We maintain that these disadvantages represent the major motives for the creation of agricultural cooperatives, whose role lies in enabling the realization of advantages of large scale organization in agriculture while avoiding its transaction costs.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Journal: Journal of Entrepreneurial and Organizational Diversity ; ISSN: 2281-8642 ; Volume: 2 ; Year: 2013 ; Issue: 1 ; Pages: 23-36 ; Trento: European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises (EURICSE)

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Thema
agricultural cooperatives
irreducible transaction costs
reducible transaction costs
new generation cooperatives
structural change
property rights

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Tortia, Ermanno
Valentinov, Vladislav
Iliopoulos, Constantine
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises (EURICSE)
(wo)
Trento
(wann)
2013

DOI
doi:10.5947/jeod.2013.002
Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Artikel

Beteiligte

  • Tortia, Ermanno
  • Valentinov, Vladislav
  • Iliopoulos, Constantine
  • European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises (EURICSE)

Entstanden

  • 2013

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