@article{Johnson:12410,
      recid = {12410},
      author = {Johnson, R.W.M. and Petrey, L.A. and Schroder, William R.},
      title = {Agribusiness: Political Economy and Market Structure -  Toward a Structure for Agribusiness},
      journal = {Review of Marketing and Agricultural Economics},
      address = {1996-08},
      number = {430-2016-31414},
      pages = {6},
      year = {1996},
      abstract = {This issue of the Review contains three papers from the  February conference on agribusiness structures and market  behaviour. This introduction serves to introduce the papers  and sets out a review of recent literature contributions in  the marketing and agribusiness area. The review identifies  the characteristic market structure of agribusiness as a  transformation of farm-based commodities to many  differentiated and finished products in consumer markets.  This market channel or chain exhibits many of the features  of competitive markets due to the many firms involved but  also has features which cut across competitive theory such  as monopoly buying, lack of full information, and backward  integration. In the wider view, agricultural industries  interact with other institutions and polities, and must  take account of these forces in management and planning.  The papers, which follow, analyse the government  agribusiness interface from a public choice point of view,  marketing structure and information from a market failure  point of view, and marketing structure and alliances from a  product development point of view.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/12410},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.12410},
}