Overview
- The only book covering in-depth studies about the role of agricultural co-operatives under current market conditions
- The authorship consists of some of the world’s most renowned scholars in the field of agricultural cooperatives, as well as a number of promising young researchers
- The scientific quality of the book chapters is very high as the editors have taken every step to secure top quality
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
Vertical Markets and Cooperative Hierarchies 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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Vertical Markets and Cooperative Hierarchies
Book Subtitle: The Role of Cooperatives in the Agri-Food Industry
Authors: Kostas Karantininis, Jerker Nilsson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-5543-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-4072-6Published: 05 December 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7031-9Published: 19 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-5543-0Published: 24 May 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 285
Topics: Agricultural Economics, Industrial Organization, Political Economy/Economic Systems, Business and Management, general, Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice