Browsing by Author/Contributor "Cook, Michael L. (Michael Lee), 1943-"

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  • Adjusting organizational structure for cooperative longevity : Missouri farmers association, 1920 - 1950 

    Levogianni, Elisavet (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The objective of this qualitative exploratory study is to analyze the process which led Missouri Farmer Association (MFA) to dramatically change its ...

  • Advances in Cooperative Theory since 1990: A Review of Agricultural Economics Literature 

    Cook, Michael L. (Michael Lee), 1943-; Chaddad, Fabio R. (Fabio Ribas); Iliopoulos, Constantine (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam School of Management, 2004)
    This article reviews the advances in neoclassical, coalition-game theoretic, and new institutional-nexus of contracts applications of economic theory to agricultural cooperative literature published in English language ...

  • Agroindustrialization Emerging Markets: Overview and Strategic Context 

    Cook, Michael L. (Michael Lee), 1943-; Reardon, Thomas Anthony; Barrett, Christopher B. (Christopher Brendan); Cacho, Joyce (Elsevier Science Inc., 2001)
    This article offers an overview for a special issue on agroindustrialization. It reviews eleven articles analyzing the agroindustrialization process in Latin America and Asia. It sets out a conceptual framework from the ...

  • Agroindustrialization in Emerging Markets: Overview and Strategic Context 

    Cook, Michael L. (Michael Lee), 1943-; Reardon, Thomas Anthony; Barrett, Christopher B. (Christopher Brendan); Cacho, Joyce (International Food and Agribusiness Management Review, 2001)
    This article offers an overview for a special issue on agroindustrialization. It reviews eleven articles analyzing the agroindustrialization process in Latin America and Asia. It sets out a conceptual framework from the ...

  • Basics of Missouri agricultural cooperatives 

    Cook, Michael L. (Michael Lee), 1943-; Ratchford, C. Brice; Griffith, Brian (University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 1995)
    In 1983, 105 locally owned agricultural cooperatives operated in Missouri. But although they strongly support the idea of cooperatives, farmers may not fully understand their role in the cooperative or the unique features ...

  • Beginning to Inform the Theory of the Cooperative Firm: Emergence of the New Generation Cooperative 

    Cook, Michael L. (Michael Lee), 1943-; Iliopoulos, Constantine (Association for Business Administration Studies, 1999-04)
    The objective of this paper is threefold: 1) to introduce the recent emergence of a nontraditional form of collective action in rural United States, 2) to explore the path-dependent institutional environment from which ...

  • A case of uncertainty in the vertical integration decision 

    Elliott, Thomas Reid (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Since the 1970s, sugar beet processors in the United States have undergone a shift from investor-owned firms to producer-owned firms. In 1970, all nine ...

  • Citrus World, Inc. 1980 - 2015 : an examination of adaptation in a long-enduring U.S. agricultural marketing cooperative 

    Webb, Susan (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
    A common characteristic of enduring entities is their adaptive capability. Yet the nature and process of adaptation in a cooperatively owned enterprise where capital structure constraints, membership restrictions, diffuse ...

  • The Clustering of Organizational Innovation: Developing Governance Models for Vertical Integration 

    Burress, Molly J.; Cook, Michael L. (Michael Lee), 1943-; Klein, Peter G. (International Food and Agribusiness Management Association, 2008)
    This case explores a cluster of firms that emerged sharing a particular ownership structure. Typically, clusters are thought of as interrelated firms that produce similar products and services. However, we document the ...

  • Collective Entrepreneurship: An Emerging Phenomenon in Producer-Owned Organizations 

    Cook, Michael L. (Michael Lee), 1943-; Plunkett, Brad (Southern Agricultural Economics Association, 2006-08)
    This paper introduces and defines the concept of collective entrepreneurship. A review of the defensive single-level rent-seeking objective of traditional agricultural cooperatives is introduced followed by an analysis of ...

  • Collective Entrepreneurship: An Emerging Phenomenon in Producer-Owned Organizations 

    Cook, Michael L. (Michael Lee), 1943-; Plunkett, Brad (Southern Agricultural Economics Association, 2006-08)
    This paper introduces and defines the concept of collective entrepreneurship. A review of the defensive single-level rent-seeking objective of traditional agricultural cooperatives is introduced followed by an analysis ...

  • Consumer co-ops : essential elements of managing a food cooperative (1993) 

    Cook, Michael L. (Michael Lee), 1943- (1993)
    Food cooperatives come in all shapes, sizes and temperaments -- pre-orders and stores, small and large, based around natural foods and a larger range of foods. Whatever its shape, size or temperament, a food cooperative ...

  • Consumer co-ops : introduction to consumer food cooperatives (1993) 

    Cook, Michael L. (Michael Lee), 1943- (1993)
    More people are becoming interested in establishing cooperatives to handle groceries. The interest stems in part from the tight economic situation faced by many families. The new National Consumer Cooperative Bank has also ...

  • Consumer co-ops : managing a pre-order food cooperative (1993) 

    Cook, Michael L. (Michael Lee), 1943- (1993)
    A pre-order cooperative can offer its members savings on conventional supermarket food prices and/or food of higher quality than available elsewhere except at a premium price. It can also offer opportunities to socialize ...

  • Consumer co-ops : orienting new members (1993) 

    Cook, Michael L. (Michael Lee), 1943- (1993)
    Every cooperative, small or large, will bring in new members at one time or another. The cooperative needs to orient these new members to the goals and nature of the cooperative, and their rights and responsibilities as ...

  • Consumer co-ops : steps in organizing a new pre-order food cooperative (1993) 

    Cook, Michael L. (Michael Lee), 1943- (1993)
    This information is for a small group of organizers who want to establish a new pre-order food cooperative. No two groups will follow exactly the same steps since goals, needs and situations vary. But all groups need to ...

  • Cooperatives and Group Action 

    Cook, Michael L. (Michael Lee), 1943- (Texas A&M University, 1993)
    The primary objective of this paper is to synthesize and summarize organizational issues and challenges facing U.S. agricultural cooperatives as they analyze their strategic options in preparing to meet the needs of their ...

  • An empirical approach to exploring the role of selective incentives in mitigating the free rider problem 

    Olson, Frayne Elton (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
    The concept of free riding has been recognized as a challenge facing collective action organizations for centuries. However, the term free riding has been used to describe a range of alternative problematic actions and ...

  • How agricultural cooperatives are taxed (1995) 

    Cook, Michael L. (Michael Lee), 1943-; Ratchford, C. Brice; Griffith, Brian (University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 1995)
    The development of cooperative tax law represents attempts over the past few decades to bring together a set of tax rules that reflects the reality of, the cooperative business world. The principle sources of cooperative ...

  • Informing the theory of collective entrepreneurship: investment choice 

    Chambers, Molly (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
    Olson's seminal work on the logic of collective action predicts that individuals will not act collectively to further common economic goals except under certain conditions. This work utilizes transaction cost economics, ...