@article{Ciliberti:276067,
      recid = {276067},
      author = {Ciliberti, Stefano and Frascarelli, Angelo and Martino,  Gaetano},
      title = {Coordination strategies in the Italian agro-food supply  chain: cooperatives vs. Producer organizations?},
      address = {2018-07-04},
      number = {2132-2018-5362},
      pages = {22},
      month = {Jul},
      year = {2018},
      abstract = {The study of institutions in the agro-food systems is  gaining momentum since it represents an intricate and  undoubtedly relevant case study as concerns  intermediate-product markets. Moreover, traditionally there  is a problem of organization among farmers mainly due to  the scarce attitude to pool decisional and property rights  on input and/or output. According to the Transaction Costs  Economics framework, the paper aims to investigate which  are the main drivers of the collective forms of  organization in the Italian agro-food system, paying  particular attention to transaction costs’ attributes and  to the increasing role played by the institutional  environment as well. The choice to join to cooperative or  producer organization is conceptualized as a governance  structure choice, also paying attention to the  complementarity between the two alternatives. Based on the  Italian version of the Farm Accountancy Data Network,  bivariate probit and multinomial are estimated in order to  account for three organizational alternatives  (participation in cooperative, in OP and join participation  in all the three alternatives) and to test the  complementarity between the two organizational forms  entailed.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/276067},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.276067},
}