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| Banaszak, Ilona. |
| The main question posed in the paper asks why do some cooperative arrangements in agricultural markets survive and succeed and others fail? We define success and factors affecting success of cooperation using transaction costs theory and game theory. Transaction costs theory provides insights on comparative advantage of one form of organization versus others and proposes, while game theory focuses on interdependencies between partners entering the arrangements. Data were collected from 62 Polish farmer cooperative organizations called producer groups. The main aim of those organizations was to organize joint sales of output produced individually by their members. Some of the groups were functioning effectively while others that had disbanded or were no... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Cooperation; Agricultural markets; Producer groups; Poland; Agribusiness; Marketing. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7837 |
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| Banaszak, Ilona; Beckmann, Volker. |
| The cooperative movement in Poland has a long but difficult history. The socialistic regime introduced a command and control system into cooperatives which was destructive to their self-governing functions and eventually led to a lack of member involvement. There was a mass neglecting and abandonment after the transformation in particular of rural cooperatives. Nonetheless, in the early 1990s the first farmers’ cooperative marketing organizations, called agricultural producer groups, appeared on the market. They are bottom-up, voluntary organizations whose main purpose is to jointly sell their members’ output Although producer groups functions similarly to marketing cooperatives, farmers establishing producer groups have been choosing other legal forms... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Co-operatives; Governance; Organizational choice; Poland; Producer groups; Socialist legacy; Agribusiness. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/53269 |
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