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The Resilient Society: On volunteering, civil society and corporate community involvement in transition

Meijs, L.C.P.M. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2004

Changes in the Dutch non-profit regime necessitate the direct participation of citizens and businesses in non-profit organisations. Dutch society must re-invent the commitment of citizens, businesses, foundations, universities and various other organisations by increasing both â€˜community...

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Diversification and Corporate Governance

Hendrikse, G.W.J.; Oijen, A.A.C.J. van - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2002

regarding the differences in diversification strategy of cooperatives and stock listed companies. The analysis shows that stock … listed companies are more diversified than cooperatives, related as well as unrelated. …

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On the Evolution of Product Portfolio Coherence of Cooperatives versus Corporations: An Agent-Based Analysis of the Single Origin Constraint

Hendrikse, G.W.J.; Smit, R. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2007

Agent-based methodology is adopted to analyze the relationship between governance structure and the evolution of product portfolio. A corporation and a cooperative are distinguished by the single origin constraint. The single origin constraint entails that the product requiring the inputs of the...

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Boards in Agricultural Cooperatives: Competence, Authority, and Incentives

Hendrikse, G.W.J. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2005

This article addresses three observations regarding the board of directors in agricultural cooperatives. First, many … scholars and practitioners worry about the competency of the member dominated board of directors in agricultural cooperatives …. Second, it is sometimes stated that cooperatives seem to behave like ordinary enterprises. Finally, it is argued that …

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Governance Structure, Product Diversification, and Performance

Oijen, A.A.C.J. van; Hendrikse, G.W.J. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2002

diversification strategies of cooperatives and compare them with corporations. We develop hypotheses that predict that cooperatives … sample of 118 cooperatives and corporations are used to test the hypotheses. We find significant differences between … cooperatives and corporations. Therefore, our main conclusion is that governance structure does matter for product diversification …

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Pooling, Access, and Countervailing Power in Channel Governance

Hendrikse, G.W.J. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2011

Fruit and vegetable marketing organization The Greenery has experienced various governance structure changes, like horizontal merger, forward integration, and the emergence of grower associations. A multilateral incomplete contracting model is presented to account for these changes by analysing...

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Chain Interdependencies, Measurement Problems, and Efficient Governance Structure: Cooperatives versus Publicly Listed Firms

Feng, L.; Hendrikse, G.W.J. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2011

cooperatives are not publicly listed and their CEOs have to bring the downstream enterprise to value as well as to serve upstream …. Cooperatives are uniquely efficient when the upstream marginal product multiplied with a function increasing in the strength of the …

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Learning And Governance In Inter-Firm Relations

Nooteboom, B. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2004

This article connects theory of learning with theory of governance, in the context of inter-firm relations. It recognizes fundamental criticism of transaction cost economics (TCE), but preserves elements from that theory. Two kinds of relational risk are identified: hold-up and spillover risk....

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One Analogy Can Hide Another: Physics and Biology in Alchianâ€™s â€œEconomic Natural Selectionâ€

Levallois, C. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2008

Today, Alchian's "Uncertainty, evolution and economic theory" (1950) is hailed by evolutionary economists as a most important piece, which resumed an evolutionary brand of theorizing in economics after the eclipse of the interwar period. On the other hand, Alchian's article is also cherished by...

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