Trust-creating Social Networks in Forest Owners' Choice of Trading Partners

Sammanfattning

This study investigates the role of social networks when producers choose between selling their commodities to a co-operative firm or an investor-owned firm. The empirical basis is personal interviews with ten forest owners, five co-operative suppliers and five IOF suppliers. The findings indicate that forest owners influence each other as to choice of buyer, and that the social influences are stronger among co-operative suppliers than among suppliers to investor-owned buyers. The influences from the forest owners’ parents are very strong. Most remarkable is that the buying firms’ representatives have extremely much influence

Nyckelord

Forestry co-operative; social influence

Publicerad i

Journal of co-operative studies
2010, Volym: 43, nummer: 2, sidor: 17-28 Utgivare: Society for Co-operative Studies

SLU författare

• Nilsson, Jerker

  • Institutionen för ekonomi, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    
  • Institutionen för människa och samhälle, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

UKÄ forskningsämne

Samhällsvetenskap
Skogsvetenskap
Ekonomi och näringsliv


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https://res.slu.se/id/publ/36246