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TRANSACTION-COST ECONOMICS
AND THE ORGANIZATION OF
AGRICULTURAL TRANSACTIONS
Scott E. Masten
ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the logic, hypotheses, empirical methods, and
principal findings of the transaction-cost approach to economic organiza-
tion as a foundation for analyzing the organization of agricultural
transactions. In contrast to textbook characterizations of agriculture as
the quintessential spot market, agricultural transactions display a broad
range of governance arrangements . The chapter traces the use of these
arrangements to the location-specific nature of investments and, espe-
cially, to temporal specificities associated with the perishability of many
agricultural products. Case studies of the governance of fruit, vegetable,
and dairy processing ; the emergence of multinational firms in the banana
trade; the evolution of contractual relations between tuna harvesters and
processors; and the governance of transactions between cattle feedlots,
slaughtering, and beef fabrication operations illustrate the arguments .
I. INTRODUCTION
Why do manufacturers buy some components and make others? What
influences the duration and structure of contractual agreements? When will a
company distribute its product through an independent distribution network
Industrial Organization, Volume 9, pages 173-195 .
Copyright ® 2000 by Elsevier Science Inc.
All rights of reproduction in any form reserved .
ISBN: 0-7623-0687-4
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rather than use commissioned employees? Why did franchising emerge as
an
organizational form? When does foreign direct investment dominate exporting
or licensing?
It was in attempting to answer question
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