The empirical literature on farmer cooperatives is now fast emerging and developing in the
areas of performance, ownership and governance, finance, and member attitude. We …

As economic crises, growing inequality and climate change prompt a global debate on the
meaning and trajectory of development, increasing attention is focusing on'social and …

Cooperatives are established to improve farmers' production conditions, to increase their
bargaining power and to enable them to benefit from modern value chains. In China, farmers …

The central message expressed throughout this chapter is that there is a whole class of
economic organizations that contribute substantially to what Coase (1992: 713) called “the …

Different organizational arrangements have supported the adoption of sustainable-oriented
innovations (SOIs) in the agri-food industry. However, despite the promises of SOIs, diffusion …

1.1 Objective of the study The imbalances in bargaining power between the contracting
parties in the food supply chain have drawn much scholarly attention but have also been …

Agricultural cooperatives increasingly operate in strictly coordinated supply chains. It is
important that members of a cooperative are committed to a customer‐oriented strategy …

The variety of solutions to organize economic activities is striking, and underexplored. This
paper proposes a framework that combines transaction cost and relational contracts models …

Food and agricultural commodity markets, particularly in developing countries, have
undergone tremendous changes in the past decades (Reardon and Barrett 2000; Swinnen …

Agricultural cooperatives are a prominent economic organization for farmers in agro-food
systems. Industrial organization and new institutional economics theories explain the …