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Business Models and Producer-Owned Ventures: Choices, Challenges, and Changes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

Phil Kenkel  and
John Park
Phil Kenkel
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
John Park
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
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Abstract

Producer-owned business models are rapidly evolving. Producer-owned, value-added ventures face a number of organizational challenges, including capital acquisition, security exchange registration, antitrust exemption, borrowing eligibility, and operational flexibility. This paper examines the success of evolving producer-owned business models in addressing these challenges. The need for uniform criteria to distinguish producer-owned business from other business forms throughout the complex structure of policies and laws affecting value-added ventures is highlighted.

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cooperativevalue-added organizational formQ13Q14Q18

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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 39 , Issue 2 , August 2007 , pp. 381 - 387
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Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 2007

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