Lessons from Community Entrepreneurship: The Concept of Spawning

Capital-constrained cooperatives are being challenged by producer-members to provide vertical integration opportunities. We find evidence producer groups are utilizing an investment strategy described as spawning. Producer-investors familiar with a particular organizational form and who have developed joint investment networks were more apt to invest in newly spawned ventures.

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Year of publication:	2009-08
Authors:	Burress, Molly J. ; Cook, Michael L.
Institutions:	Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Missouri
Subject:	Spawning \| Collective Entrepreneurship \| Cooperative Development \| Community/Rural/Urban Development

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Working Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	The text is part of a series Department of Agricultural Economics>Working Papers Number 92629
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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