Influencia de los mecanismos de gobierno en el desempeño en las cooperativas agrarias de comercialización
- G. Marcos-Matás 1
- M. Hernández-Espallardo 2
- N. Arcas Lario 1
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Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena
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Universidad de Murcia
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- Ayuga Téllez, Francisco (coord.)
- Masaguer Rodríguez, Alberto (coord.)
- Mariscal Sancho, Ignacio (coord.)
- Villarroel Robinson, Morris (coord.)
- Ruiz-Altisent, Margarita (coord.)
- Riquelme Ballesteros, Fernando (coord.)
- Correa Hernando, Eva Cristina (coord.)
Publisher: Fundación General de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
ISBN: 84-695-9055-3, 978-84-695-9055-3
Year of publication: 2014
Pages: 549-554
Congress: Congreso Ibérico de Agroingeniería y Ciencias Hortícolas (7. 2013. Madrid)
Type: Conference paper
Abstract
The co-operative sector is in a quandary with a vast number of farmers supplying the co-operatives’ competitors at the origin of the supply chain (Spear, 2000), while many of the current farmers-members of the co-operatives do not show enough level of commitment to allow co-operatives to react in good conditions to the new market challenges (Nilsson, 2001). A basic postulate of this research is that the inter-firm governance mechanisms that the cooperative maintains with its members-suppliers have an influence on the cooperatives its market performance. We rely on Resourced-based View to posit the hypotheses of the model proposed in this research. 249 questionnaires were obtained from managers of Spanish agricultural marketing co-operatives. A structural equations model was developed to test the hypotheses. The results show that several inter-firm governance mechanisms do have a positive influence in co-operatives performance. It allows us to draw some managerial recommendations to the management of agricultural co-operatives.