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Springer Vertical Markets And Cooperative Hierarchies by Kostas Karantininis
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._x000D_ _x000D_
I. THE COOPERATIVE: BETWEEN MARKET AND HIERARCHY.- 1. Cooperatives: Hierarchies or Hybrids?; Claude Menard.- 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; Soren 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 & Stephane 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._x000D_