Stronger together, but how? Lessons of the Walloon dairy history on the strategic relevance of cooperative models

Presentation of a related scientific paper (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcom.2023.100198) made at the 2022 ICA CCR Conference. Agri-food cooperatives evolved towards a diversity of cooperative models, understood as modes of horizontal and vertical coordination of the value chain. This historical investigation informs theory and practice on the strategic relevance of cooperative models for prospective pathways of value chain development. The paper draws on coordination models encountered in the trajectories of consolidation of Walloon dairy cooperatives over the last sixty years. A SWOT analysis... Mehr ...