Vertical Markets and Cooperative Hierarchies (eBook)

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.

I. THE COOPERATIVE: BETWEEN MARKET AND HIERARCHY.- 1. Cooperatives: Hierarchies or Hybrids?; Claude Ménard.- 2. The Network Form of the Cooperative Organization – An Illustration with the Danish Pork Industry; Kostas Karantininis.- 3. Networks, Innovation and Performance – Evidence from a Cluster of Wine Cooperatives (Languedoc, South of France); Yuna Chiffoleau, Fabrice Dreyfus, Rafael Stofer & Jean-Marc Touzard.- II. GOVERNANCE.- 4. Conversions and Other Forms of Exit in U.S. Agricultural Cooperatives; Fabio Chaddad & Michael Cook.- 5. The Structure of Marketing Cooperative – A Members' Perspective; Nikos Kalogeras, J.M.E. Pennings, Gert van Dijk & I.A. van der Lans.- 6. Agency and Leadership in Cooperatives – Endogenizing Organizational Commitment; Murray Fulton & Konstantinos Giannakas.- III. INTERNAL ORGANIZATION.- 7. Lock-in of Farmers in Agricultural Cooperatives – Reviving the Effect of Exit by Means of Constitutional Amendments; Søren Vincents Svendsen.- 8. Two Vignettes Regarding Boards in Cooperatives versus Corporations; George Hendrikse.- 9. Regulation, Governance and Capital Structure in Cooperatives; Anastassios Gentzoglanis.- IV. CONDUCT.- 10. Cooperative Forward Integration in Oligopsonistic Markets – A Simulation Analysis of Incentives and Impacts; Jeffrey Royer.- 11. European Dairy Cooperative Strategies – Horizontal Integration versus Diversity; Laurence Harte & John J. O’Connell.- 12. Sales Distortion in Heterogeneous Cooperatives; Peter Bogetoft & Henrik Ballebye Olesen.- 13. Do Consumers Care about Cooperatives? A Franco-Swedish Comparative Study of Consumer Perceptions; Jerker Nilsson, Philippe Ruffio & Stéphane Gouin.- V. PERFORMANCE.- 14. The Horizon Problem Reconsidered; Henrik Ballebye Olesen.- 15. The Horizon Problem in Agricultural Cooperatives – Only in Theory?; Erik Fahlbeck.- 16. Performance of Cooperatives and Investor–Owned Firms – The Case of the Greek Dairy Industry; Ourania Notta & Aspassia Vlachvei.