Why are cooperatives important in agriculture? An organizational economics perspective

By Vladislav Valentinov. Journal of Institutional Economics, 2007

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Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management

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Citations in the corpus

• Linking Smallholders to Markets: Determinants and Impacts of Farmer Collective Action in Kenya (2012, background): “Farmer organizations, cooperatives, and similar forms of collective action are avenues to reduce high transaction costs (Markelova, Meinzen-Dick, Hellin, & Dohrn, 2009; Valentinov, 2007).”
• Do cooperative enterprises create social trust? (2012, unknown): “However, this evidence does not fundamentally modify the personal character of membership of cooperatives since, on the one hand, small producers and farmers very often coincide with individual or family firms (Valentinov 2007).”
• Renewable energy cooperatives as gatekeepers or facilitators? Recent developments in Germany and a multidisciplinary research agenda (2015, unknown): “[63] Valentinov V.”
• A Life Cycle Explanation of Cooperative Longevity (2018, background): “failures, producers and states also institutionalized cooperatives as a means of achieving scale economies, thus overcoming some of the limitations created by the transaction costs economizing structure of the family farm found in market oriented agricultural countries [9].”
• Does cooperative membership improve household welfare? Evidence from a panel data analysis of smallholder dairy farmers in Bihar, India (2018, background): “…competitive prices for both inputs and outputs, reduce transaction costs, improve information symmetry, and improve agrofood safety and quality standards (Trebbin, 2014; Jia et al., 2012; Moustier et al., 2010; Hellin et al., 2009; Markelova et al., 2009; Valentinov, 2007; Holloway et al., 2000).”
• Smallholder Farmers and Collective Action: What Determines the Intensity of Participation? (2014, background): “For example, cooperative organization has helped to maintain the dominance of family farms in developed countries by offsetting some of their disadvantages related to size and bargaining power (Valentinov 2007).”
• Social capital, member participation, and cooperative performance: Evidence from China’s Zhejiang (2015, background): “Farmer cooperatives have emerged to address market failures caused when these challenges become problems (LeVay 1983, Hansmann 1996, Valentinov 2007).”