Unlocking cooperation towards diversification - insights from a historical account of Walloon dairy cooperatives ...

Presentation related to a scientific paper (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2022.04.003), made at the 14th European Farming Systems Conference (IFSA) in April 2022. Drawing on a historical study of the Walloon dairy cooperatives, this paper analyses how complex cooperative dynamics define lock-ins in their trajectories. We consider cooperatives as firms active on markets and as structures of collective action gathering farmers-members around common strategic goals. Williamson's framework from New Institutional Economics accounts for the embeddedness of firms' strategies and governance in th... Mehr ...