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| Bhuyan, Sanjib. |
| Vertical mergers have become an important business strategy among food manufacturers because it allows them to manage and customize their production according to consumer needs. Economic theories have shown that vertical mergers may be induced by transaction costs, demand variability, and other factors. Using an input-output methodology, a measure of vertical merger is developed for U.S. food manufacturing industries and the transaction cost hypotheses tested in an attempt to examine the factors that motivate vertical mergers in the food manufacturing industries. The results are consistent with previous studies that confirm the role of transaction cost factors, such as lock-in effects in terms of asset specificity and managerial diseconomies. |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/22146 |
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| Bhuyan, Sanjib; Leistritz, F. Larry. |
| Cooperative, a term commonly associated with farmers and the agricultural sector, is also prevalent in a variety of private, non-agricultural sectors. Cooperation among private businesses or public entities has led to cost sharing and more efficiency. However, not all cooperative ventures have been successful. Knowing and understanding what economic, organizational, financial, and operational factors help some cooperatives to succeed could enhance the ability of community leaders and businesses to use the cooperative model to their advantage. With such a goal in mind, this study examines the characteristics of a nationwide sample of cooperative businesses in a variety of non-agricultural sectors and develops a “probability of success” model. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/46418 |
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| Royer, Jeffrey S.; Bhuyan, Sanjib. |
| A model of a three-stage vertical market structure consisting of agricultural producers. an assembler, and a processor is developed to analyze the market incentives farmer cooperatives may have for integrating forward into processing activities and to evaluate the comparative impacts of cooperative forward integration on producers and consumers. Although forward integration by cooperatives generally provides benefits to both producers and consumers under fixed-proportions processing technology and constant assembly and processing costs. the existence of an integration incentive appears to depend upon the ability of the cooperative to restrict the raw product output of its producers to optimal levels. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness. |
| Ano: 1995 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/46181 |
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| Bhuyan, Sanjib; Olson, Frayne E.. |
| Focus group discussions were conducted in April 1997 in two rural North Dakota counties to examine whether the problem of inadequate or missing goods and services in those areas can be solved by using the cooperative business approach. An earlier study (Bhuyan, 1996a) has shown that many rural North Dakota communities lack essential goods and services, such as supermarket or grocery stores, clothing stores, drug stores, bank/credit facilities, and ambulance or fire-services. Focus group participants corroborated those earlier findings at the local level. It was also found that the rural residents were not fully aware of the potential role of cooperatives in the non-agricultural sectors as a means to provide inadequate or missing goods and services.... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Non-agricultural cooperatives; Rural development strategies; Focus group; Community/Rural/Urban Development. |
| Ano: 1998 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/23298 |
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| Bhuyan, Sanjib; Lopez, Rigoberto A.. |
| This paper estimates welfare losses in thirty-eight U.S. food and tobacco industries at the four-digit SIC level, then relates such losses to market structure and conduct variables to identify the welfare loss determinants. Empirical findings indicate that these losses are higher in markets characterized by high export intensity, high advertising expenditures, economies of scale, mergers and acquisitions, and market concentration. In addition, losses are larger in industries that sell finished consumer products and face lower import competition. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness. |
| Ano: 1998 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/31519 |
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| Royer, Jeffrey S.; Bhuyan, Sanjib. |
| Firms may seek contractual alternatives to vertical integration in order to achieve transactional economies or adjust for market imperfections. Blair and Kaserman have shown that under fixed-proportions production technology. Firms within bilateral and successive monopoly market structures can use formula price contracts to achieve results economically equivalent to integration. This paper examines whether formula price contracts are a viable alternative to forward integration for farmer cooperatives. Analysis of a three-stage vertical market structure indicates that the conditions under which a cooperative assembler can use a formula price contract are more restrictive than those for an investor-owned firm. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness. |
| Ano: 1993 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/46390 |
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| Bhuyan, Sanjib; Lopez, Rigoberto A.. |
| This article systematically estimates the allocative efficiency losses in the U.S. food and tobacco manufacturing industries under alternative oligopoly pricing regimes using a formal model of oligopoly. Using 1987 data for 44 industries and an industry-wide oligopoly pricing scheme, these losses were estimated at approximately 3% of sales--2% in the food industries and 19% in the tobacco industries. Five additional oligopoly pricing regimes, four of which are price leaderships, are simulated and their results compared and tested relative to the industry-wide pricing regime. Findings underscore the importance of cost structure assumptions and that the impact of the type of oligopoly behavior assumed is not as dramatic when differences in demand and cost... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Food and tobacco industries; Market power; Welfare loss; Industrial Organization. |
| Ano: 1995 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/15269 |
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