Lessons from Community Entrepreneurship: The Concept of Spawning

Molly J. Burress and Michael L. Cook

No 92629, Working Papers from University of Missouri Columbia, Department of Agricultural Economics

Abstract: Capital-constrained cooperatives are being challenged by producer-members to provide vertical integration opportunities. We find evidence producer groups are utilizing an investment strategy described as spawning. Producer-investors familiar with a particular organizational form and who have developed joint investment networks were more apt to invest in newly spawned ventures.

Keywords: Community/Rural/Urban; Development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 13
Date: 2009-08
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.92629

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