The Contracting and
Organizations Research Institute is an interdisciplinary research
institute dedicated to the study of the organization and structure of
economic enterprise and of the effects of legal, political, social, and
economic institutions on the structure and performance of economic
organizations. CORI was founded to encourage and enable empirical
research on contracting and organizational structure, drawing on such
fields as economics, law, business, and related social sciences.
CORI-AG is CORI's agribusiness focus area website, with
contracts and research specifically related to the structure of the
agrifood system. This site will provide information on a wide range of
contracting and organizational issues from the development and transfer
of intellectual property in agbiotech research to the structure and
coordination and food retail. In addition to research on the structure
of the US agricultural sector, CORI-AG will include work on the global
food system and development of international agricultural markets. |
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Frameworks for Entrepreneurship Research in Food, Agriculture, Natural
Resources & Rural Development: A National Conference on
Entrepreneurship Research |
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The McQuinn Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership
and the University of Missouri-Columbia's Division of Applied Social
Sciences hosted a two-day workshop on the development of a framework
for studying entrepreneurship in food, agriculture, natural resources,
and rural development. Researchers from around the globe presented
their work and discuss opportunities for future research. Copies
of papers and presentations are available from the conference website.
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"Recent Trends in Agricultural Contracting" |
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Contracting and vertical integration are
increasingly important in US agriculture, but there is much confusion
about the nature and purpose of contracting. This article surveys
recent trends in the vertical coordination of agricultural production
and marketing and suggests ways to improve our understanding of these
phenomena. Read the complete article.
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| Markets, Contracts or Integration? A Complementarity Perspective |
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explain the diverse nature of contractual and organizational forms in
an industry across regions and time? What do existing economic theories
of organization offer? CORI Fellows Harvey James, Peter Klein and
Michael Sykuta address this issue in the context of changes in the
agri-food sector. The authors draw on the literature of adoption and
diffusion of new technologies to suggest a new perspective and research
approach to examine geographic and intertemporal patterns of
contracting and integration in agriculture. Read the complete study. |
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| Last Updated January 22, 2008 |
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