Small agricultural cooperatives are increasingly using differentiated payments based on the quality of their members’ products. Such cooperatives make a trade‐off between the return on investment in quality and members’ disengagement from the cooperative. Based on data from the five‐year survey of small French agricultural cooperatives, we analyse the effect of incentive payments on small cooperatives’ performances. We investigate how incentive payments can reduce the problem of free riders and improve these cooperatives’ reputation. Using a quantile regression method, while controlling for the potential endogeneity of incentive payments, we show that quality‐based compensation can rule out cooperative members’ defrauding options. This remuneration has a non‐linear positive effect on small cooperatives’ performances. The results suggest that incentive payments improve small cooperatives’ performances.
Malgré le nombre croissant d’études sur l’éco-innovation, certains déterminants de sa mise en place volontaire par les entreprises ont été relativement peu abordés. Dans cette note de recherche, nous analysons les déterminants internes et externes de l’éco-innovation. Sur une base de données originale portant sur près de 40 000 entreprises européennes, nous estimons un modèle probit bivarié récursif mixte, qui permet de tenir compte d’une part de l’inertie de la transition vers des pratiques durables et d’autre part des effets propres aux pays. Nos résultats confirment l’importance de ces deux éléments, ainsi que le rôle déterminant des marchés visés.Classification JEL : C35, L21, Q57.
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