We build a theoretical model to study a market structure of a marketing cooperative with direct selling, in which many farmers are members of an agricultural marketing cooperative. They can sell their production either to the cooperative or on a local market. We show that the decision to sell to...

We build a theoretical model to study a market structure of a marketing cooperative with direct selling, in which many farmers are members of an agricultural marketing cooperative. They can sell their production either to the cooperative or on an oligopolistic local market. We show that the...

De nombreux travaux en économie industrielle et écologie des organisations s’intéressent de manière récente au lien entre l’âge de l’organisation et sa probabilité de disparition. Testant quatre propositions théoriques relatives à la relation entre âge et mortalité, nous...

Many researchers try to explain consumer’s acceptance and opposition to genetically modified organisms (GMOs) using social factors like “trust” in “direct causal” or “joint causal” (also referred to as “associationist”) models. The latter approach considers attitudes to...

Dans les années 1830-1850, prenant acte du mouvement général de la société moderne et de la nécessité de l'orienter vers le progrès social, les théoriciens de l'économie sociale (ou de la science sociale) d'inspiration saint simonienne proposent une critique du fonctionnement de leur...