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HOW MUCH DO FARMERS VALUE THEIR INDEPENDENCE? ESTIMATING THE RISK AND AUTONOMY PREMIA ASSOCIATED WITH PRODUCTION CONTRACTS
Key, Nigel D. - 2002
for the reduction in price risk provided by a contract. Farmers with a preference for "autonomy" should be willing to pay … and own the commodity they produce. The benefits to growers from contracting (such as risk reduction) may be over … data to estimate the risk premium, the change in expected income, and the autonomy premium associated with hog production …
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Smallholder marketed surplus and input use under transactions costs: maize supply and fertilizer demand in Kenya
Arega, D.A.; Manyong, Victor M.; Omanya, G.; Mignouna, H.D. - 2008
This paper assessed the effects of transactions costs—relative to price and non-price factors—on smallholder marketed surplus and input use in Kenya. A selectivity model was used that accounts not only for the effects of fixed and variable transactions costs but also for the role of assets,...
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Vertical Integration and Institutional Constraints on Firm Behavior: The Case of the Garment Industry in Egypt
El-Haddad, Amirah Moharram - 2005
Internalizing market transactions has been seen by New Institutional Economics (NIE) as a means of over-coming transaction costs. Several specific theories have been put forward as to how the presence of such costs (variously defined), or other institutional factors, motivates firms to...
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Entwicklung eines Marketingkonzeptes für die Immobilien- und Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH Adelsberg zur Einführung der Dienstleistung des Energieliefer-Contracting
Aust, Jessica - 2010
Sicherstellung des Contracting-Angebotes der Immobilien- und Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH Adelsberg am Markt.Mittels verschiedener … Analysen wird die Vermarktung der Contracting-Dienstleistungen konzipiert. Mit Hilfe von verschiedenen … Kommunikationsinstrumenten soll den Kunden bzw. potenziellen Kunden Energieliefer-Contracting näher gebracht werden und diese dazubewegen, das …
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Markets, Contracts, or Integration? The Adoption, Diffusion, and Evolution of Organizational Form
Sykuta, Michael E.; Klein, Peter G.; James, Harvey S. - 2005
The rise of contract farming and vertical integration is one of the most important changes in modern agriculture. Yet the adoption and diffusion of these new forms of organization has varied widely across regions, commodities, or farm types, however. Transaction cost theories and the like are...
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Business Organization and Coordination in Marketing Specialty Hogs: A Comparative Analysis of Two Firms from Iowa
Hueth, Brent; Ibarburu, Maro A.; Kliebenstein, James B. - 2005
We study business organization and coordination of specialty-market hog production using a comparative analysis of two Iowa pork niche-marketing firms. We describe and analyze each firm's management of five key organizational challenges: planning and logistics, quality assurance, process...
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PRODUCT DIFFERENTIATION AND SEGREGATION IN AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS: NON-GENETICALLY MODIFIED AND SPECIALTY CORN AND SOYBEAN CROPS IN IOWA
Miranowski, John A.; Jensen, Helen H.; Batres-Marquez, … - 2004
results are discussed with respect to business organizations, added costs, investments, crops, and contracting. …
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Technology Adoption, Management Practices, and Financial Performance of New and Beginning Farmers: Evidence from a National Survey
Mishra, Ashok K.; Wilson, Christine; Williams, Robert P. - 2007
farmers’ financial performance given farm and operator characteristics, production and marketing, and risk management …
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Competing Manufacturers in a Retail Supply Chain: On Contractual Form and Coordination
Kok, A. Gurhan - 2010
It is common for a retailer to sell products from competing manufacturers. How then should the firms manage their contract negotiations? The supply chain coordination literature focuses either on a single manufacturer selling to a single retailer or one manufacturer selling to many (possibly...
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The Role and Extent of Economic Rent in Distribution Contracts.
Lo, Ho Fu Des - 2008
This dissertation is composed of five chapters that investigate the extent and role of economic rent in distribution contracts between manufacturers and dealers. Manufacturers often devise contractual mechanisms that enable downstream dealers to earn economic rent. One such mechanism is the...
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