Managerial Economics of Vertically Coordinated Agricultural Firms

Estrutura e dinâmica dos contratos na suinocultura de Santa Catarina: um estudo de casos múltiplos

“…Portanto, há uma variedade de estruturas organizacionais que podem coordenar a transferência de produtos ao longo de uma cadeia produtiva, ou seja, através das quais as várias funções de um sistema de produção são mantidas em harmonia. Esta capacidade de coordenação está associada à sua estrutura de incentivos para alinhar objetivos entre as partes, ou à sua capacidade de monitoramento e controle para reduzir problemas de informação assimétrica e comportamento oportunista (Blois, 1972;Williamson, 1979Williamson, e 1991Sporleder, 1992;Barkema, 1993;Joskow, 1995;Farina et al, 1997;Zylbersztajn, 2005).…”

Commercialisation of goat production in South Africa

“…If proved unsafe, the consumer would wish to have some form of recourse, which is enabled through the mechanism of tractability back to source. Sporleder (1992) further mentions that consumers are demanding specialised and relatively low-volume food products.…”

“…These demands have led to the increased occurrence of vertical integration in agricultural food and nonfood product markets (Sporleder, 1992;Martinez et al, 1997;Gow et al, 2000;Engelbart et al, 2001;SAMIC, 2002;Singh, 2002). A supply chain created through vertical integration can be defined as an integrated process through which a number of firms co-operate in an effort to acquire raw materials, process these materials into another form, and deliver these products to consumers (Bearnon, 1998;Rehber, 1998).…”

“…time-based contracts, etc.) (Sporleder, 1992;Gow et al, 2000) required in the process to get the product to the consumer. In this scenario, the goat resource is mainly in the hands of the non-commercialised farmer, thus contracts could ensure not only the critical mass required to enter the retail and international market place, but could also assist in "locking" the non-commercialised farmer into a formal industry.…”

“…Due to the specificity of the infrastructure, vertical integration with goat producers in the region becomes a necessity (Sporleder, 1992).Indefining the relationship between the central "umbrella" co-operative and the regional co-operatives a contract was designed. Some factors of this contract are discussed here.…”