3. A three-tiered approach to the economics of hybrids: an application to the agricultural innovation sector

J.E. Hobbs

3. A three-tiered approach to the economics of hybrids: an application to the agricultural innovation sector

于It's a jungle out there - the strange animals of economic organization in agri-food value chains

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J.E. Hobbs

J.E. Hobbs Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Saskatchewan, 51 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 5A8, Canada.

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Page Range:: 67–82

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.3920/978-90-8686-844-5_3

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Occupying the middle ground between spot markets and full vertical integration, lies a diverse array of inter-firm relationships and organisational forms in the agri-food sector, so-called ‘hybrids’, from informal trust-based relational contracts, to explicit contracts, cross-licencing agreements, strategic alliances, networks, clusters, franchising agreements and joint ventures. The chapter offers reflections on the economics of hybrids and the challenges inherent in categorising these organisational forms into a workable typology as the basis for explaining their adoption and evolution. A three-tiered approach to the analysis of hybrid modes of organisation is discussed: analysis which examines the influence of the external (institutional) environment; analysis which examines the inter-firm environment, drawing upon insights from transaction cost economics, agency theory, and the property rights approach; and analysis which considers the intra-firm (managerial) environment, including insights from the resource-based view of the firm and elements of strategic management theory. The use of hybrid modes of organisation to co-ordinate inter-firm relationships in the agricultural biotechnology innovation sector is discussed as an illustrative example of the three-tiered analytical approach. Three challenges are identified for future research: the sheer diversity of hybrid organisational forms; the development of theoretical models of organisational forms amenable to empirical validation; and moving beyond static models to a dynamic perspective on the adoption, development and diffusion of hybrid organisational forms.

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It's a jungle out there - the strange animals of economic organization in agri-food value chains

ISBN:: 9789086868445

出版社:: Wageningen Academic

印刷出版日期:: 15 Dec 2017

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- Life Sciences
  - General
  - Agriculture & Environment

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