Bananas are the fifth most widely traded farm product. While the results of monopolization in the banana business, such as environmental contamination and the exploitation of labor, are frequently criticized, Globalized Fruit, Local Entrepreneurs demonstrates that the industry is not globally...

Main description: What is a global market? How does it work? At a time when new crises in world markets cannot be satisfactorily resolved through old ideas, Market Threads presents a detailed analysis of the international cotton trade and argues for a novel and groundbreaking understanding of...

This review discusses the challenges and opportunities of German rural areas. Significant differences between East and West persist and many of these have clear rural dimensions. Factors such as CAP reforms, ageing of the German population and migration trends will also have important rural...

Vergleich marktsoziologischer Theorien über die Koordination von Produzenten -- Diskussion zentraler Theorien der Verbandsforschung -- Geschichte der deutschen Biomärkte von 1946-2012 -- Analyse von Koordinationsleistungen von Wirtschaftsverbänden auf Märkten