Stronger together, but how? Lessons from the Walloon dairy history on the strategic relevance of cooperative models

Analytically structured history; Hybrids; Institutional logics; Polycentricity; Value chain coordination; Business and International Management; Strategy and Management

Abstract :

[en] Agri-food cooperatives evolved towards an increasing diversity of cooperative models, understood as modes of horizontal and vertical coordination of the value chain. This historical investigation informs theory and practice on the strategic relevance of cooperative models for prospective pathways of value chain development. The paper draws on coordination models encountered in the trajectories of consolidation of Walloon dairy cooperatives over the last sixty years. A SWOT analysis based on historical accounts outlines the strengths and weaknesses of cooperative models on several dimensions underpinning their long-term strategic relevance: their cost-efficiency and strategic efficiency in a given market and institutional context, and their impact on commitment. The paper discusses the interplay of cooperative models and contextual factors, from social capital to regulatory frameworks, in the agri-food sector and beyond. The paper identifies cost-efficiency and strategic efficiency as outcomes emerging at the crossover of multiple dimensions. Ostrom's Institutional Analysis and Development framework (IAD) framework illustrates the contextual anchoring of these outcomes. The framework suggests avenues of collective mobilization and future research to manage cooperative models in sustainable value chain development and prevent demutualization. On this basis, the paper outlines the relevance of longitudinal and historically informed studies on cooperative development.

Disciplines :

Social economics

Author, co-author :

De Herde, Véronique ; Université de Liège - ULiège > HEC Liège : UER > UER Management : Entrepreneuriat social et durable ; Rotterdam School of Management, Department of Business-Society, Research Team Institutions for Collective Action, Netherlands

Language :

English

Title :

Stronger together, but how? Lessons from the Walloon dairy history on the strategic relevance of cooperative models

Publication date :

June 2023

Journal title :

Journal of Co-operative Organization and Management

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2213-297X

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Elsevier Ltd

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100198

Peer reviewed :

Peer reviewed

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https://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:S2213297X23000010?httpAccept=text/xml

Funders :

FRIA - Fonds pour la Formation à la Recherche dans l'Industrie et dans l'Agriculture
F.R.S.-FNRS - Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique

Funding text :

This research was conducted with the financial support of the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique—FNRS—Fonds pour la Formation à la Recherche dans l′Industrie et dans l′Agriculture FRIA.

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