RURAL COOPERATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY
LESSONS FROM THE PAST, PATHWAYS TO THE FUTURE
| Keynote lecture Bruce Weinberg (Ohio State University, USA), "Size, Composition, and Social Effects in Groups." |
| Session 1: The nature of cooperatives Ethan Ligon (University of California, Berkeley, USA), "Managing Risk Using Agricultural Cooperatives." |
| Li Feng and George Hendrikse (Erasmus University,The Netherlands), "CEO Compensation of Cooperatives and IOFs." |
| Fabio Chaddad (University of Missouri, USA), "Both Market and Hierarchy: Understanding the Hybrid Nature of Cooperatives."
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| Session 2: Cooperative efficiency and success Jon H. Hanf, Taras Gagalyuk and Erik Schweickert (IAMO, Germany), "Success of Cooperatives: A Combination of Firm and Network Level Factors." |
| Gregory McKee (North Dakota State University, USA), Saleem Shaik (North Dakota State University, USA) and Michael Boland (Kansas State University, USA), "Role of Financial Variables in Explaining the Efficiency of Sample of Farm Supply and Grain Marketing Cooperatives."
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| Sanjib Bhuyan (Rutgers University, USA), "A Comparison of Member and Non-member Dairy Farming in the Northeast United States."
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| Session 3: Marketing cooperatives Arthur Fishman (Bar-Ilan University, Israel), Israel Finkelshtain (Hebrew University, Israel), Avi Simhon (Hebrew University, Israel) and Nira Yacouel (Hebrew University, Israel), "The Economics of Collective Brands." |
| Israel Finkelshtain (Hebrew University, Israel), "Anti-trust Legislation and Cooperation in Fish Marketing." |
| Theo Benos (Maastricht University, The Netherlands), Nikos Kalogeras (Maastricht University, The Netherlands and University of Illinois, USA), Frans J.H.M. Verhees (Wageningen University, The Netherlands) and Joost M.E. Pennings (Maastricht University, The Netherlands), "Marketing Cooperatives' Re-engineering: Influences among Organizational Attributes, Strategic Attributes & Performance."
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| Session 4: Growth, ineqaulity, and cooperative life cycle Michael Cook (University of Missouri, USA), "Re-examining the Cooperative Life Cycle." |
| Ophir Lasowski and Rainer Kuehl (Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany), "Exit and Voice Preferences of Group-Members as a Result of Cooperative Growth."
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| Liema Davidovich, Sibylle Heilbrunn and Avraham Polovin (Ruppin Academic Center, Israel), "Inaquality and Entrepreneurial Risk-Taking of Organizations: The Impact of Change in the Kibbutz on Risk-Taking of Entrepreneurs."
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| Ayal Kimhi and Tal Wolberg (Hebrew University, Israel), "Income Inequality within Moshav Cooperatives."
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| Session 5: Changes in Israeli cooperatives Michael Sofer, David Grossman and Ephraim Grossman (Bar-Ilan University, Israel), "The Communal and Renewing Kibbutz: Ideology, Management and Institutional Change." |
| Yael Kachel (Ministry of Agriculture and Hebrew University, Israel), "Cooperation in Agricultural Exports: Lessons from Reforms."
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| Zvi Galor (Israel). "Demutualization of Cooperatives: The Case Study of Tnuva."
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| Giora Ben Dror (Bar-Ilan University, Israel), "Weakening Cooperation in the Israeli Moshav: Preliminary Aspects."
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| Session 6: Cooperative governance Michael Boland (Kansas State University, USA), "Strategy and its Relationship to Restructuring in US Agricultural Cooperatives." |
| Liang Qiao (Zhejiang University, Chaina), G.W.J. Hendrikse (Erasmus University, Netherlands) and Zuhui Huang (Zhejiang University, China), "Value Added Efficiency and Governance Structure: Evidence from the Pear Industry in China's Zhejiang Province."
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| Jos Bijman ande Gert van Dijk (Wageningen University, The Netherlands), "Corporate Governance in Agricultural Cooperatives: A Dutch Perspefctive."
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| Session 7: Cooperative role and performance Pierre Merel, Tina L. Saitone and Richard J. Sexton (University of California, USA), "Cooperatives' Performance in Quality-Differentiated Markets." |
| Paul A. Jones (Liverpool John Moores University, UK), "The Role of Credit Unions in Promoting Financial Inclusion in Rural Communities in Britain."
| Jonathan Kaminski (Hebrew University, Israel), " Outgrower Schemes and Cooperatives: A Problem of Moral Hazard and Peer-Monitoring."
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| Session 8: Rural cooperation in North America Brent Hueth (University of Wisconsin, USA), "Cooperatives in the Economy: AU.S. Perspective." |
| Morray Fulton (University of Saskatchewan, Canada), "Rural Co-operation in Canada."
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Ran Aaronsohn (Hebrew University, Israel), "The Hutterites' Colonies in America between Collectives and Cooperatives."
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| Thomas W. Gray (USDA, USA), "Cooperative Tensions and the US Agriculture of the Middle Initiative: Prospective Considerations."
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| Session 9: Agricultural cooperatives in transition countries Zvi Lerman (Hebrew University, Israel), "Agricultural Service Cooperatives in Transition Countries." |
| Axel Wolz (IAMO, Germany) and Pham Bao Duong (Institute of Policy and Strategy for Agricvultural and Rural Development, Vietnam), "The Transformation of Agricultural Producer Cooperatives - The Case of Vietnam."
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Svetlana Golovina (Kurgan State Agricultural Academy, Russia) and Jerker Nilsson (Swedish University of Agricultural Science, Sweden). "Russian Agricultural Producers' Changing Attitudes towards Top-Down Organized Cooperatives."
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| Ilona Banaszak (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia) and Volker Beckmann (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany), "New Modes of Governance of Cooperative Arrangements in Agricultural Markets: The Case of Polish Producer Groups."
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| Session 10: Cooperatives and market structure Christoph Tribl (Federal Institute of Agricultural Economics, Austria), "Spatial Combination in a Mixed Market of Food Processors - The Case of Uniform Delivered Pricing." |
| Jianyn Yu (Toulouse School of Economics, France), "Quality Provision and Farmer Inclusion of an Agricultural Cooperative."
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