Karantininis / Nilsson Vertical Markets and Cooperative Hierarchies

The Role of Cooperatives in the Agri-Food Industry
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-4020-5543-0
Verlag: Springer Netherland
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 285 Seiten, eBook

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Karantininis, Kostas

Nilsson, Jerker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

From the contents

I. The Cooperative: Between Market And Hierarchy.- II. Governance.- III. Internal Organization.- IV. Conduct.- V. Performance.

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.