The impact of cooperatives’ risk aversion and equity capital constraints on their inter-firm consolidation and collaboration strategies-with an empirical study of the European dairy industry

Agribusiness

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 453-472

  Van der Krogt, Dirk ^a   Nilsson, Jerker ^a   Høst, Viggo ^b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

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EID: 78649472504     PISSN: 07424477     EISSN: 15206297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/agr.20140     Document Type: Article

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