Evolving Business Arrangements in Local Grain Marketing Cooperatives
Evolving Business Arrangements in Local Grain Marketing Cooperatives
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DOI：
10.2307/1349533
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发表时间：
1998-03
影响因子：
5.8
通讯作者：
J. Fulton;M. Popp;C. Gray
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作者：
J. Fulton;M. Popp;C. Gray
本文探讨了地方粮食供销合作社如何利用现金合同和经纪服务等粮食销售服务，以应对当今不断变化的商业环境的挑战。回顾了粮食流通业的变化，特别强调了行业集中度和运输规模经济。我们分析了从采访中获得的信息与农民/成员的合同协议和非正式和正式的协议与其他企业的20个合作社的经理。研究结果表明，管理者认为与农民签订的粮食销售合同在短期和长期都是有利可图的。此外，如果能够协调运输、实现规模经济和分散风险，合作社之间的非正式和正式协议是有利可图的。
This article explores how local grain marketing cooperatives use such grain marketing services as cash contracts and brokerage services to meet the challenges of today's changing business environment. A review of the changes in the grain marketing industry is presented with particular emphasis on industry concentration and economies of size in transportation. We analyze information obtained from interviews with managers of twenty cooperatives with respect to contractual agreements with farmer/members and informal and formal agreements with other businesses. The results suggest that managers see grain marketing contracts with farmers as profitable in the short and long run. In addition, informal and formal agreements between cooperatives are profitable when transportation can be coordinated, economies of size are captured, and risk can be diversified.