Cooperatives and payment schemes : lessons from theory and examples from Danish agriculture /
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Copenhagen :
Copenhagen Business School,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Cooperatives and Payment Schemes
- Content
- Preface
- Guidance for readers
- 1 Summary
- 1.1 The Danish pig industry as an example
- 1.2 The theoretical challenge
- 1.3 The practical challenge
- 1.4 The criteria
- 1.5 Payment schemes
- 1.6 Multiple-criteria evaluation
- 1.7 Conclusion
- 2 Cooperatives
- 2.1 What is a cooperative
- 2.2 Traditional cooperatives
- 2.3 New Generation Cooperatives (NGCs)
- 2.4 General problems of cooperative ownership
- 2.5 Coordination and motivation
- 2.6 The literature on cooperatives
- 2.7 Case: The Danish pig industry2.8 Conclusions
- 3 Economic objectives and conditions
- 3.1 Efficiency
- 3.2 Equality and the integrated profit
- 3.3 Technical applicability
- 3.4 Balanced budget
- 3.5 Individual incentives
- 3.6 Group Incentives
- 3.7 Robustness and dynamics
- 3.8 Holistic evaluations
- 3.9 Conclusions
- 4 Single product payment schemes
- 4.1 Technologies and markets
- 4.2 The traditional payment scheme
- 4.3 The wise chairman�s solution
- 4.4 Production of special pigs � an example
- 4.5 Optimal, under- or over-production4.6 The problem of over-production and some possible solutions
- 4.7 Balanced budget and the allocation of profits and losses
- 4.8 Fair and 'natural' profit allocations
- 4.9 Information needs
- 4.10 Summary
- 5 Multi product payment schemes
- 5.1 A general example
- 5.2 National pricing system: Equal gross margins
- 5.3 Payment scheme for piglets: Equal returns on capital
- 5.4 The premium-pig system: Quota and premium products
- 5.5 The ACA (Alternate Cost Avoidance) method
- 5.6 Nucleolus
- 5.7 Shapley
- 5.8 SummaryReferences
- Glossary
- Index