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Collective Entrepreneurship: An Emerging Phenomenon in Producer-Owned Organizations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 September 2016

Michael L. Cook  and
Brad Plunkett
Michael L. Cook
Affiliation:
Division of Applied Social Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia
Brad Plunkett
Affiliation:
Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Australia
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Abstract

This paper introduces and defines the concept of collective entrepreneurship. A review of the defensive single-level rent-seeking objective of traditional agricultural cooperatives is introduced followed by an analysis of recent studies documenting a shift in the objective functions of producers jointly integrating toward more multiple-level rent-seeking entities. This process of shifting from market failure-ameliorating collective action mechanisms toward rent-seeking group action organizations is labeled collective entrepreneurship. The justification for introducing this concept is based on the Olsonian premise that rational, self-interested individuals will not act to achieve their common or group interests without coercion or selective incentives.

Keywords

agricultural cooperativesentrepreneurshipD23D72Q13
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Invited Paper Sessions
Information
Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 38 , Issue 2 , August 2006 , pp. 421 - 428
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 2006

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