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Organization Change and Vinification Cooperatives in France's Midi
Author(s)Knox, Trevor M.
AbstractStandard accounts of French industrialization blame the predominance of the traditional family firm for France’s failure to adopt or to pioneer modern production methods. Economic historians could easily interpret the cave coopérative vinicole as evidence that corroborates this explanation for inefficiency in French agriculture and industry. The cave coopérative preserved the idiosyncrasies that attend fragmented land tenure at the expense of governance costs and incentive problems associated with cooperative ownership and control. These apparent barriers to rationalized production notwithstanding, this paper claims that the cooperative was a progressive organizational structure that adapted winegrowers in southern France to the emerging institutions of a growing market.
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Pages1-48
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SourceWorking Paper 1998-04
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PubDate1998
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