Finding our way in the jungle: insights from organization theory

Claude Ménard ()
Additional contact information
Claude Ménard: CES - Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Post-Print from HAL

Abstract: This contribution is about the variety of modalities of coordination of economic activities, with application to the agrifood sector. Building on recent developments in organization theory and institutional analysis, it explores two dimensions along which coordination operates: it proposes an extended transactional model to explain the variety of coordination devices, with a special emphasis on contracts and their role in hybrid arrangements; and it characterizes the different layers composing the institutional setting in which these arrangements are embedded, with an emphasis on the long ignored or neglected role of the intermediate, ‘meso-institutional' layer. Insights are also provided on the technological background to coordination and on some policy issues.

Keywords: Transactions; contracts; property rights; hybrid organizations; meso-institutions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-12-15
Note: View the original document on HAL open archive server: https://univ-rennes.hal.science/hal-04001137
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: Track citations by RSS feed

Published in Gaetano Martino, Konstantinos Karantininis, Stefano Pascucci, Liesbeth Dries and Jean Marie Codron (eds). It’s a jungle out there – the strange animals of economic organization in agri-food value chains, Wageningen Academic Publishers, pp.27-50, 2017, 978-90-8686-301-3. ⟨10.3920/978-90-8686-844-5_1⟩

Downloads: (external link)
https://univ-rennes.hal.science/hal-04001137/document (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04001137

DOI: 10.3920/978-90-8686-844-5_1

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Post-Print from HAL
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CCSD ().