A new institutional economics approach to contracts and cooperatives

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1273-1279

  Sykuta, Michael E ^a,b   Cook, Michael L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b Contracting and Organizations Research Institute ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVE; AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTRACT FARMING; PROPERTY RIGHTS;

EID: 0035702252     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0002-9092.00278     Document Type: Article

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