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Book Competitive Strategy Analysis For Agricultural Marketing Cooperatives

Download or read book Competitive Strategy Analysis For Agricultural Marketing Cooperatives written by Ronald W Cotterill and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-03-11 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the evolution of agricultural marketing cooperatives within the framework of competitive strategy analysis. It also explores issues of horizontal and vertical integration and product differentiation by discussing new strategic directions that cooperatives might pursue.

Book Vertical Markets and Cooperative Hierarchies

Download or read book Vertical Markets and Cooperative Hierarchies written by Kostas Karantininis and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-24 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book collects sixteen 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.

Book Broilers Differentiating a Commodity

Download or read book Broilers Differentiating a Commodity written by Richard T. Rogers and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reprint Series

Download or read book Reprint Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Handbook of Research on Cooperatives and Mutuals

Download or read book Handbook of Research on Cooperatives and Mutuals written by Matthew S. Elliott and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-14 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This incisive Handbook provides a global update on the state of knowledge in cooperatives and mutuals, expertly describing future directions for research and education. Showcasing extensive discussions of cooperative theory, Matthew S. Elliott and Michael A. Boland, and the contributors, assess cooperatives' social, economic and environmental effects and analyse the impact of regional and cultural features that make cooperatives unique.

Book Three Essays on the Economics of Marketing Cooperatives in Fisheries

Download or read book Three Essays on the Economics of Marketing Cooperatives in Fisheries written by Sunny Lynn Jardine and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapter 2: The degradation of product quality is one form of rent dissipation resulting from incomplete property rights in fisheries. Industry structure and information asymmetries can also lead to inefficiencies stemming from an underinvestment in product quality, even when property rights are well-defined. In this chapter, I test empirically whether the voluntary formation of a marketing cooperative can mitigate several market failures that lead to the production of inferior product quality. Specifically, I estimate using difference-in-differences methods the impact that the Copper River Fishermans Cooperative, an Alaskan salmon marketing cooperative, had on ex-vessel salmon prices and salmon quality measures. I find that indeed the cooperative was able to both improve product quality via self-enforced rules on harvesting and they were able to attract and sustain a higher price for their salmon. Chapter 3: A common phrase in the marketing cooperative literature is that co- operatives must be "born of necessity". Current literature has focused on cooperatives as institutions of necessity on the extensive margin, e.g. necessity for cooperative formation. In this chapter, I explore the degree to which the adage holds on the intensive margin, i.e. necessity for increasing members' level of participation. I use a dynamic within-season optimal control model of a representative cooperative member's sales decisions to establish that there is a negative relationship between the dock price for fish and the fraction of member harvest sold to the cooperative. The results from the optimal control model generate a hypothesis that I test empirically in two ways: First, I provide structural estimates of the parameters in the optimal control model and assess how well my simple model describes observed member sales decisions. Second, I provide a reduced-form analysis using linear probability models to describe the impact of salmon prices on the probability that a member delivers harvest to the cooperative. My results have implications for the performance of marketing cooperatives in fisheries. Chapter 4: Marketing cooperatives may have an advantage in niche markets for high-quality goods. However, product differentiation in fisheries with incomplete property rights may have unintended ecological consequences. In this chapter I explore the impact of price seasonality on the genetic composition of a salmon stock. I develop a bioeconomic model, based loosely on the Copper River Chinook fishery, and explore results from model simulations under a number of different assumptions on the biological and economic model parameters. I find that price seasonality can lead to disproportionate pressure on early-run salmon populations, reducing biodiversity in the fishery, and reducing infra-marginal rents earned in the fishery relative to a counterfactual where the genetic composition of the stock is preserved. Important factors impacting the magnitude of changes in biodiversity and fishery welfare are fleet efficiency and market conditions.

Book Seizing Control

Download or read book Seizing Control written by Lee Egerstrom and published by Lone Oak Press, Limited. This book was released on 1996 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seizing Control assess changes twelve international authorities see occurring in the global food system. Dr. Douglass C. North watches viability of existing business forms (Noble Prize 1993, Prof. Economics & History, Washington Univ., St. Louis, MO); Dr. David Hughes (Wye College, Univ of London) examines product differentiation and countervailing power rising from consumers; Lee Egerstrom details the disaster of horizontal expansion. Drs. Roel Jaap in 't Veld (Utrecht Univ.) and Vernon Ruttan (U MN) assess cooperative strengths when approaching change. Drs. Jesper Strandskov (Aarhus Univ., Denmark), Jerker Nilsson, (Uppsala Univ., Sweden), Werner Grosskopf, (Univ. of Hohenheim, Germany), and Michael Cook (U of MO) offer perspectives on cooperatives and changes occurring in their countries; Drs. Arie van der Zwan (Nijenrode Univ.) and Van Dijk (Director, Netherlands National Cooperative Council) discuss how expansion and international markets are dislocating local labor markets while summarizing opportunities experts see for local people.

Book Cooperatives and Local Development

Download or read book Cooperatives and Local Development written by Christopher D. Merrett and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2004. The market economy has changed profoundly over the past two centuries. In the nineteenth century, business enterprises were largely single-product ventures, managed directly by the owners and rooted within national economies. In the twentieth century, firms employed managers who were not owners. Firms also evolved into multiproduct, multiunit entities that could employ thousands of workers. In the twenty-first century, many firms operate on a global scale, taking advantage of free trade policies and rapidly evolving computer and telecommunications technologies. Given this potential, it is crucial that producers, consumers, economic developers, and researchers realize how co-ops can promote local economic and community development. Hence, this book includes the perceptions of experts on a variety of cooperative issues, including the challenges involved in starting a co-op and in understanding its impact on surrounding communities. This book can be especially useful because it provides the theoretical foundations and practical applications of cooperative behavior.

Book Agricultural Marketing Cooperatives

Download or read book Agricultural Marketing Cooperatives written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reprint Series

Download or read book Reprint Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1988* with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Agricultural and Food Marketing Management

Download or read book Agricultural and Food Marketing Management written by I. M. Crawford and published by Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). This book was released on 1997 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Evaluation of Market Conditions and Critical Success Factors for Agricultural Marketing Co operatives

Download or read book An Evaluation of Market Conditions and Critical Success Factors for Agricultural Marketing Co operatives written by Wayne H. Howard and published by Guelph, Ont. : Department of Agricultural Economics & Business, University of Guelph. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cooperatives in Agribusiness

Download or read book Cooperatives in Agribusiness written by United States. Farmer Cooperative Service and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: