This paper provides a survey of contract design structures in identity-preserved soybean production. We document the allocation of value and decision rights associated with the transaction and the resulting allocation of risk associated with various sources of uncertainty for a sample of...

Kibbutzims, as a social experiment, initially succeeded in achieving the goals for which they were envisaged. Over a period of time, due to changing circumstances, Kibbutzims have faced criticisms on their style of functioning and purpose of existence. Nevertheless, Kibbutzims have managed to...

Recent theoretical work on agricultural contracts has utilized agency theory. Most of this work considers a moral hazard problem, and assumes that producers are homogeneous, so that there is no adverse selection problem. We utilize a sample of producer performance under a broiler production...

We see that Belgian industrial dairy production before World War II lagged the developments of other countries in the same region and of the same size such as Denmark and The Netherlands. The share of home production remained remarkably high, while within the industrial segment the number of...

This research examines the recent growth of contract use in the USA and European agro-food sector where asset specificity is not a dominant concern and secondary markets exist. It sheds light on the neglected capabilities of a contract to transmit buyer-specific information, obtain secondary...

Supply relationships and e-auctions are complementary procurement forms that specialty coffee roasters can utilize when designing a procurement strategy. We model the roasters' optimal choices of procurement strategies using an extended newsvendor model. By comparing the optimal strategies in a...

Wine production in Europe today is dominated by small family vineyards and cooperative wineries, while in the New World viticulture and viniculture is highly concentrated and vertically integrated. This paper argues that these fundamental organizational differences appeared from the turmoil in...

The very different factor endowments of the New World to those found in Europe implied that the wine industry developed its own style and characteristics. In California production was located at a considerable distance from the main markets on the East Coast, and trade was initially controlled...

The design of networks in their institutional and organizational aspects is a key determinant of their competitiveness. Consequently managers in agricultural and food industries have to address the question of governance design, i. e. of choices concerning the content and the architecture of...

In the fresh produce long distance international trade, market intermediaries are still a key actor while modern retailers have little backward integrated into the import activity. Difficulty to negotiate a price at the FOB level, three or four weeks before fresh produce are consumed, leads...