textJos Bijman (1959) is senior researcher at the Agricultural Economics Research Institute
(LEI), The Hague, The Netherlands He studied political science at the University of
Amsterdam After his graduation in 1988 he worked two years as a researcher at the
Department of International Relations and International Public Law, Faculty of Social
Sciences, University of Amsterdam Next, he worked for one year as a teacher at the
Faculty of Philosophy and Technical Social Sciences, Delft Technical University In
September 1991 he joined the LEI, where his research initially focused on technology
assessment and socio-economic impacts of agricultural biotechnology In recent years he
has extended his expertise to internationalisation of agribusiness and the organisation of
(international) agrifood chains
The author has written many reports and articles on the impact of agricultural
biotechnology, recently in the (electronic) journals AgBioForum (wwwagbioforumorg),
Biotechnology and Development Monitor, International Journal of Biotechnology and Food
Policy Articles on internationalisation, co-operatives and the organisation of the agrifood
chain have appeared in Dutch journals, such as Co?peratie, Spil, TSL, Maandschrift voor
Accountancy en Bedrijfseconomie, and in English journals such as American Journal of
Agricultural Economics, and the European Review of Agricultural Economics

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Essays on Agricultural Co-operatives; Governance Structure in Fruit and Vegetable Chains

Increasing differentiation on the supply side of agricultural and horticultural markets has resulted in the emergence of new growers' associations (GAs). These GAs face a trade-off between self-selection and countervailing power, which is analysed with an incomplete contracting model. Heterogeneous GAs frustrate high-quality growers as a result of the policy of applying the equality principle, but they are strong in terms of countervailing power of the growers collectively. The opposite holds for homogeneous GAs. Homogeneous GAs prevail when the benefits of product differentiation are large, or when low-quality producers can be driven out of the market. An efficiency rationale for EU Regulation (EC) No. 2200/96 is formulated.

On the emergence of new growers' associations: self-selection versus countervailing power

We study the heterogeneity in the preference structure of cooperative members. Using conjoint analysis the utility that members attach to intra-organizational and strategic attributes of their cooperative is elicited. Recognizing that members are not homogenous, a concomitant finite-mixture regression model is employed to allow preferences to vary across different member segments. With data from 120 cooperative members, we find that most members demonstrate rather similar preferences for strategic attributes but differ with respect to the intra-organizational attributes of control and management. Members' preference structures are affected by business size and attitudes towards risk.

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Understanding heterogeneous preferences of cooperative members

Except for some food production for private consumption, most food products are purchased in the market. This is the domain of food marketing. Broadly speaking, marketing as a scientific discipline is concerned with the exchange processes that occur between a firm or organization that offers products or services to the market, and the target group(s) of potential buyers in its environment. Marketing focuses on policies and strategies which firms adopt to satisfy the needs and wants of the target groups more effectively and efficiently than competitors do. The basic assumption is that the organization that can do so most effectively and efficiently will be most successful in achieving its organizational objectives.

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Marketing and consumer behaviour with respect to foods

I. THE COOPERATIVE: BETWEEN MARKET AND HIERARCHY.- 1. Cooperatives: Hierarchies or Hybrids? Claude Menard.- 2. The Network Form of the Cooperative Organization - An Illustration with the Danish Pork Industry Kostas Karantininis.- 3. Networks, Innovation and Performance - Evidence from a Cluster of Wine Cooperatives (Languedoc, South of France) Yuna Chiffoleau, Fabrice Dreyfus, Rafael Stofer & Jean-Marc Touzard.- II. GOVERNANCE.- 4. Conversions and Other Forms of Exit in U.S. Agricultural Cooperatives Fabio Chaddad & Michael Cook.- 5. The Structure of Marketing Cooperative - A Members' Perspective Nikos Kalogeras, J.M.E. Pennings, Gert van Dijk & I.A. van der Lans.- 6. Agency and Leadership in Cooperatives - Endogenizing Organizational Commitment Murray Fulton & Konstantinos Giannakas.- III. INTERNAL ORGANIZATION.- 7. Lock-in of Farmers in Agricultural Cooperatives - Reviving the Effect of Exit by Means of Constitutional Amendments Soren Vincents Svendsen.- 8. Two Vignettes Regarding Boards in Cooperatives versus Corporations George Hendrikse.- 9. Regulation, Governance and Capital Structure in Cooperatives Anastassios Gentzoglanis.- IV. CONDUCT.- 10. Cooperative Forward Integration in Oligopsonistic Markets - A Simulation Analysis of Incentives and Impacts Jeffrey Royer.- 11. European Dairy Cooperative Strategies - Horizontal Integration versus Diversity Laurence Harte & John J. O'Connell.- 12. Sales Distortion in Heterogeneous Cooperatives Peter Bogetoft & Henrik Ballebye Olesen.- 13. Do Consumers Care about Cooperatives? A Franco-Swedish Comparative Study of Consumer Perceptions Jerker Nilsson, Philippe Ruffio & Stephane Gouin.- V. PERFORMANCE.- 14. The Horizon Problem Reconsidered Henrik Ballebye Olesen.- 15. The Horizon Problem in Agricultural Cooperatives - Only in Theory? Erik Fahlbeck.- 16. Performance of Cooperatives and Investor-Owned Firms - The Case of the Greek Dairy Industry Ourania Notta & Aspassia Vlachvei.

Vertical markets and cooperative hierarchies : the role of cooperatives in the agri-food industry

Food marketing in Western countries has evolved from simple exchange processes at local markets into complex food marketing systems. Food marketing has also changed in other countries as a result of trends in consumer behaviour, new marketing methods, and a changing economic order.

Voluntary Marketing Institutions in Food Marketing Systems

ContentsPreface * Introduction * Agricultural Marketing in Germany * Strategic Marketing Objectives in Mergers and Acquisitions in the Greek Food Industry * The Agrifood System in Italy: Structural Adjustments to Face the Internationalization of the Food Industry * Agricultural and Food Marketing in the United Kingdom: A Review of Some Current Issues * Agricultural Marketing in France * Agricultural Marketing in Ireland * Agricultural Marketing in Belgium and the Netherlands * Agricultural Marketing in Spain * Characteristics of Agricultural Marketing in Hungary During the Formation of Market Economy * Index * Reference Notes Included

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Food and Agribusiness Marketing in Europe

In this article, export marketing channels are discussed from a theoretical point of view. There are many studies on export marketing channels, both empirically and theoretically oriented [Bakker, 1980]. It seems to us, however, that their link with general theory of marketing channels is weak [e.g., Stern & El Ansary, 1982]. International marketing, as a subdiscipline of general marketing, might possibly enlarge its understanding of marketing channels by relating general marketing theory to specific features of international marketing.

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Export marketing channels: Some theoretical considerations

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