Download or read book Vertical Markets and Cooperative Hierarchies written by Kostas Karantininis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-12-05 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book collects sixteen essays that provide clarification to issues pertinent to contemporary cooperatives. Twenty three internationally recognized scholars of agricultural cooperatives from a variety of disciplines such as industrial organization, finance, sociology, networks, and political theory contributed theoretical work and empirical observations from different countries.