2012-04-01
Chain interdependencies, measurement problems and efficient governance structure: cooperatives versus publicly listed firms
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European Review of Agricultural Economics , Volume 39 - Issue 2 p. 241- 255
We determine the circumstances when the absence of public listing, often believed to be a disadvantage, makes a cooperative the unique efficient governance structure. This is established in a multi-task principal-agent model, capturing that cooperatives are not publicly listed and their CEOs have to bring the downstream enterprise to value as well as to serve upstream member interests. Not having a public listing prevents the CEO from choosing the level of the downstream activities too high. Cooperatives are uniquely efficient when the upstream marginal product multiplied with a function increasing in the strength of the chain complementarities is higher than the downstream marginal product.
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doi.org/10.1093/erae/jbr007, hdl.handle.net/1765/37798 | |
European Review of Agricultural Economics | |
Organisation | Erasmus Research Institute of Management |
Feng, L., & Hendrikse, G. (2012). Chain interdependencies, measurement problems and efficient governance structure: cooperatives versus publicly listed firms. European Review of Agricultural Economics (Vol. 39, pp. 241–255). doi:10.1093/erae/jbr007 |