Vertical Markets and Cooperative Hierarchies

<P><STRONG>I. THE COOPERATIVE: BETWEEN MARKET AND HIERARCHY</STRONG>.<STRONG>-</STRONG> <STRONG>1.</STRONG> Cooperatives: Hierarchies or Hybrids?; <EM>Claude Ménard</EM>.<STRONG>-</STRONG> <STRONG>2.</STRONG> The Network Form of the Cooperative Organization – An Illustration with the Danish Pork Industry; <EM>Kostas Karantininis</EM>.<STRONG>-</STRONG> <STRONG>3.</STRONG> Networks, Innovation and Performance – Evidence from a Cluster of Wine Cooperatives (Languedoc, South of France); <EM>Yuna Chiffoleau, Fabrice Dreyfus, Rafael Stofer &amp; Jean-Marc Touzard</EM>.<STRONG>-</STRONG> <STRONG>II. GOVERNANCE</STRONG>.<STRONG>-</STRONG> <STRONG>4.</STRONG> Conversions and Other Forms of Exit in U.S. Agricultural Cooperatives; <EM>Fabio Chaddad &amp; Michael Cook</EM>.<STRONG>-</STRONG> <STRONG>5.</STRONG> The Structure of Marketing Cooperative – A Members' Perspective; <EM>Nikos Kalogeras, J.M.E. Pennings, Gert van Dijk &amp; I.A. van der Lans</EM>.<STRONG>-</STRONG> <STRONG>6.</STRONG> Agency and Leadership in Cooperatives – Endogenizing Organizational Commitment; <EM>Murray Fulton &amp; Konstantinos Giannakas</EM>.<STRONG>-</STRONG> <STRONG>III. INTERNAL ORGANIZATION</STRONG>.<STRONG>-</STRONG> <STRONG>7.</STRONG> Lock-in of Farmers in Agricultural Cooperatives – Reviving the Effect of Exit by Means of Constitutional Amendments; <EM>Søren Vincents Svendsen</EM>.<STRONG>-</STRONG> <STRONG>8.</STRONG> Two Vignettes Regarding Boards in Cooperatives versus Corporations; <EM>George Hendrikse</EM>.<STRONG>- 9.&nbsp;</STRONG>Regulation, Governance and Capital Structure in Cooperatives; <EM>Anastassios Gentzoglanis</EM>.<STRONG>- IV. CONDUCT</STRONG>.- <STRONG>10.</STRONG> Cooperative Forward Integration in Oligopsonistic Markets – A Simulation Analysis of Incentives and Impacts; <EM>Jeffrey Royer</EM>.<STRONG>- 11.</STRONG> European Dairy Cooperative Strategies – Horizontal Integration versus Diversity; <EM>Laurence Harte &amp; John J. O’Connell</EM>.<STRONG>-</STRONG> <STRONG>12.</STRONG> Sales Distortion in Heterogeneous Cooperatives; <EM>Peter Bogetoft &amp; Henrik Ballebye Olesen</EM>.<STRONG>-</STRONG> <STRONG>13.</STRONG> Do Consumers Care about Cooperatives? A Franco-Swedish Comparative Study of Consumer Perceptions; <EM>Jerker Nilsson, Philippe Ruffio &amp; Stéphane Gouin</EM>.<STRONG>-</STRONG> <STRONG>V. PERFORMANCE</STRONG>.<STRONG>-</STRONG> <STRONG>14.</STRONG> The Horizon Problem Reconsidered; <EM>Henrik Ballebye Olesen</EM>.<STRONG>-</STRONG> <STRONG>15.</STRONG> The Horizon Problem in Agricultural Cooperatives – Only in Theory?; <EM>Erik Fahlbeck</EM>.<STRONG>-</STRONG> <STRONG>16.</STRONG> Performance of Cooperatives and Investor–Owned Firms – The Case of the Greek Dairy Industry; <EM>Ourania Notta &amp; Aspassia Vlachvei</EM>.</P>