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| Fang, Kai; Liu, Jie; Chen, Xin-hua. |
| In the perspective of new institutional economics, we regard farmers’ cooperatives as a “contractual set” integrating a series of long-term contractual relations, and transform the selection problem of organization forms into selection problem of contractual model within organization. By the theoretical framework of Transaction Cost Economics, we analyze the formation mechanism and determinant factors of contractual model of different farmers’ cooperatives and conduct case study on Production and Marketing Cooperative of Sweet Pomegranate in Mengzi, Yunnan. The results show that selecting contractual forms of cooperatives is the result of weighing many factors; new organization model or contractual arrangement is complementary to the former system... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Farmers’ cooperatives; Organization model; Contractual selection; Transaction cost; China; Agribusiness. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/113418 |
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