Control Rights, Governance, and the Costs of Ownership in Agricultural Cooperatives

Agribusiness

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 3-22

  Chaddad, Fabio ^a   Iliopoulos, Constantine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b NAgReF   (Greece)

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EID: 84872397753     PISSN: 07424477     EISSN: 15206297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/agr.21328     Document Type: Article

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