Organizational forms and technical efficiency of the dairy processing industry in Southern Brazil

Abstract The objective of this article is to assess the determinants of the technical efficiency of dairy processing firms in Southern Brazil while accounting for their different organizational forms, namely cooperatives and investor-owned firms. The data from 243 milk processors in southern Brazil,...

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Main Authors: Caetano Luiz Beber, Sebastian Lakner, Ioannis Skevas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2021-06-01
Series:Agricultural and Food Economics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s40100-021-00195-3