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| Stafford, Thomas H.. |
| Combined balance sheets and operating statements were used to develop benchmark financial ratios for dairy marketing cooperatives. Data from 291 cooperatives were summarized for five types of dairy cooperatives, then by three types and three size combinations. Both type and size of cooperative made differences in most of the 16 financial ratios calculated as well as in the common size balance sheets and operating statements. |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Finance; Dairy; Cooperatives; Milk; Ratios; Agribusiness. |
| Ano: 1985 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/50729 |
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| Leathers, Howard D.. |
| If profit-maximizing farmers are free to join or not to join a cooperative, it may appear reasonable to assume that a cooperative will exist only when it has cost advantaged over non-cooperative marketing. This paper presents a model in which that result fails. Every individual farmer chooses either to join or not join a cooperative depending on whether transactions costs are lower from cooperative membership or nonmembership. As cooperative membership increases, transactions costs for members decline, but for nonmembers these costs increase. Results of this analysis reveal that an equilibrium exists in which all farmers voluntarily choose to join the cooperative, but more than half of the members wish the cooperative had not been formed, and transactions... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Cooperatives; Transactions costs; Agribusiness. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/8628 |
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| Meurer, Simplicio; Marcon, Rosilene. |
| Cooperative is an organizational form of collective property which obeys a series of universal principles for leading the administration. The incomplete separation between property and control and the difficult access to the generated residues result in specific problems and hinder managerial action. The present article, according to the Theory of the Agency, discusses relation between the performance of an organizational form that, by means of the power of the principles need to act into the social development whereas keeping itself economically viable when competing with market oriented organizations and with the expectations of their associates. A questionnaire was developed and applied to the associates of a rural credit cooperative. The answers were... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Agency theory; Cooperatives; Performance.. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/43698 |
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| Bernard, Tanguy; Gabre-Madhin, Eleni Z.; Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum. |
| This paper examines the impact of cooperatives on smallholder commercialization of cereals, using detailed household data from rural Ethiopia. We review the involvement of cooperatives, in terms of who participates and where they are located. We then use the strong government role in promoting the establishment of cooperatives to assume that the decision of where to establish a cooperative is largely driven by external considerations, and is thus exogenous to the members themselves justifying the use of propensity-score matching in order to compare households that are cooperative members to similar households in comparable areas without cooperatives. Four conclusions are derived from the analysis. First, despite the spread of cooperatives – they existed in... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Smallholders’ marketing; Cooperatives; Ethiopia; Agribusiness. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/42377 |
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| Rai, Chandra; Bigsby, Hugh R.; MacDonald, Ian. |
| Community forestry in Nepal is intended to reduce poverty by sustainable management of forests. Timber is one of the most high-value forest products, especially in the case of Sal (Shorea robusta) forests in the Terai region of Nepal. Despite having several advantages, including high value forests on fertile land, connection with transportation networks, and being close to regional markets, community forests in the Terai region produce little or no timber from their Sal forests. This research looks at what is affecting the production of Sal timber from community forests. Three aspects of community forest user groups (CFUG) are examined using institutional economics, transaction cost economics and micro-economics. First, the scale of CFUG operations is... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Community forest user group; Institutional economics; Transaction cost economics; Cooperatives; Contractual arrangement; Nepal; Agricultural and Food Policy; Crop Production/Industries; Environmental Economics and Policy; Farm Management; Land Economics/Use. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/96833 |
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| Wissman, Roger A.. |
| Farmers' purchasing characteristics, reasons for choosing suppliers, and purchasing strategies were different for fertilizer, fuel, feed, and pesticide purchases of 100 commercial sized farmers. With fuel, few price discounts were received and few supplier changes made. More price adjustments and supplier changes occurred with fertilizer and pesticide purchases. Distribution systems influenced feed purchases. Fertilizer and pesticide purchases with quantity discounts or supplier negotiations were twice as large. Large farmers have more purchasing options. Cooperatives were valued as business organizations. Farmer purchasing strategies affect cooperatives and other supply organizations. |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Purchasing practices; Farm supplies; Buying strategies; Price discounts; Cooperatives; Agribusiness. |
| Ano: 1981 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/52015 |
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| Hendrikse, George W.J.; Hu, Yamei. |
| Various studies show that agricultural cooperatives behave differently than their investor-owned counterparts. One explanation may be that the internal decision making process differs in these two governance structures. A model is developed to explore how endogenous screening rules affect efficient organizational choices and industrial structures. It is shown that screening level choice may outweigh architecture choice and that screening rules are strategic substitutes. Conditions are derived under which cooperatives are efficient organizational forms. It is also shown that competition may increase the attractiveness of investor-owned firms and circumstances are determined in which cooperatives and investor owned firms coexist in equilibrium. |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Architecture; Screening; Cooperatives; Duopoly; Agribusiness; Q13. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24522 |
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| Hogeland, Julie A.. |
| At least 12 reasons could propel cooperatives into a greater role in the swine industry; among them, protecting their market share in feed and offering a cooperative alternative to existing marketing channels. Yet, the industry offers a special challenge during the mid-l 990s because structural upheaval is completely redefining traditional methods of production and marketing. As a foundation for future efforts, the Cooperative Services program of USDA’s Rural Business and Cooperative Development Service and 5 regional cooperatives surveyed 1,314 local cooperatives in 1993. Results indicated local cooperatives urgently wanted greater direction and leadership from their regionals. They also wanted financial backing to offer member swine producers financing... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Cooperatives; Pork; Swine; Hogs integration; Livestock Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 1995 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/42913 |
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| Ferreira, Marco Aurelio Marques; Jose Braga, Marcelo; Lima, Joao Eustaquio de. |
| The advancement of investor-owned firms (IOF), mainly multinational ones, and the reduced participation of cooperatives in dairy production and processing in Brazil along the past few decades has been calling the attention of researchers. With the participation of 59 productive units, distributed over 9 states of the Brazilian territory, the objective of this work was to analyze the efficiency of the cooperatives in the dairy industry using the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The results show that, in general, the cooperatives presented better performance in terms of scale rather than in terms of productive efficiency. This stimulates sectorial politicies that promote improvements in the use of the resources to obtain greater efficiency in milk processing. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Cooperatives; Efficiency; Dairy products. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/48439 |
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| Shanahan, Yvonne P.; Lord, Beverley R.; Robb, Alan J.. |
| Recent corporate collapses have focussed attention on the (un)reliability of financial information. However, although the agricultural sector, which is significant globally, is run primarily using the cooperative form, there is scant research on these users' perception of financial information. Therefore this paper examines members' readership and understanding of the annual reports of a large, fertiliser cooperative. The findings show that there is a lack of readership of the annual report, due to a lack of understanding and a lack of time. A minority of non-readers trust directors to "do a good job". Preparers of information should focus on making reports more user-friendly and evidence suggests that financial information could be released more... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Cooperatives; Annual reports; Readership; Understanding; Agribusiness. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/58684 |
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| Miranowski, John A.; Jensen, Helen H.; Batres-Marquez, S. Patricia; Ishdorj, Ariun. |
| An important dimension of product differentiation and segregation for specialty crops is the added handling and transaction costs incurred. Some forms of business organization may realize lower costs of providing such services, and if specialty crop production is growing relative to commodity production, these two factors may have implications for industry structure. We use data from an Iowa grain handling survey to test hypotheses developed in the non-empirical transaction-costs literature with respect to organizational and financial governance of cooperatives and private and corporate firms. Preliminary results are discussed with respect to business organizations, added costs, investments, crops, and contracting. |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Contracting; Cooperatives; Corporations; Grain handling; Industry structure; Segregation; Specialty crops; Transaction costs; Crop Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/18323 |
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