This paper examines how farmers producing differentiated quality products choose different governance structures in a … in equilibrium and low quality is delivered by the cooperative. The trade-off between pooling and the elimination of the … double markup determines the attractiveness of cooperatives compared to IOFs. …

quality is uncertain. When the level of social capital in cooperatives is higher than a threshold, which is decreasing in … members’ subjective risk toward production uncertainty, cooperatives are able to achieve higher product quality than investor …This article highlights the interaction between social capital, pooling and quality premiums and their influence on …

quality is uncertain. When the level of social capital in cooperatives is higher than a threshold, which is decreasing in … members’ subjective risk toward production uncertainty, cooperatives are able to achieve higher product quality than IOFs. …This article highlights the interaction between social capital, pooling and quality premiums and their influence on …

This paper examines how farmers producing differentiated quality products choose different governance structures in a … in equilibrium and low quality is delivered by the cooperative. The trade-off between pooling and the elimination of the … double markup determines the attractiveness of cooperatives compared to IOFs. …

, looking mainly at quality strategies. The agro-food sector is experiencing a very important globalization process which can … cooperatives oil mills, and concretely speaking those located in the region of Castilla –La Mancha are hardly developing strategies …