Abstract Rural development has significantly benefited from intensifying relations between the government and third sector organizations (TSOs) during the last several decades. TSOs can induce innovation in rural development in a variety of ways including advocacy, awareness raising,...

This article addresses the influence costs problem in the governance structure agribusiness cooperative. Influence costs are higher in cooperatives than in investor-oriented firms due to the unique governance structure of the former. Hypotheses are formulated and tested regarding the...

Governance of agricultural cooperatives has emerged as a research topic during the last decade. It led to the realization that corporate governance recommendations tailored to the needs of investor-oriented firms do not always apply to cooperatives. However, most of the extant research focuses...

Third sector organizations play a prominent role in rural development. Yet, such organizations have been largely neglected by existing economic research. This paper examines the potential role of standard theories of the third sector and collective action in explaining the motivations to form...

This paper compares the new institutional economics literature on agricultural cooperatives to their actual operation in Greece. The key contrast thus revealed concerns the role of opportunism. New institutional economics explains cooperatives in terms of their ability to combat external...

Rural development has significantly benefited from intensifying relations between the government and third sector organizations (TSOs) during last several decades. TSOs can introduce innovation in rural development in numerous ways: advocacy, awareness raising, contracting, direct delivery of...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to identify 1) which innovation implementation strategies have the highest success potential, and 2) which factors affect the adoption of fruit-related innovations by consumers. We focus on consumer-driven and responsive fruit supply chains....

This paper explores the cross-fertilization potential that exists between the economic theory of agricultural cooperatives and that of nonprofit organizations. A number of central ideas in the agricultural cooperative theory are shown to generate two novel insights pertaining to the nonprofit...

We examine the largest house energy efficiency retrofit support program in Greece that ran during 2011-2015 and approximately fifty thousand households participated. We take advantage of an exogenous change that occurred while the program was running. This change substantially increased the...

In this study, we examine the spatial and dynamic implications of policies aimed at increasing carbon sequestration in agricultural soils. We consider incentive mechanisms designed to encourage the planting of energy multi-annual crops that allow higher carbon sequestration rates for a longer...