Annette Hurrelmann () (Department of Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Luisenstr. 56, D-10099 Berlin)
Abstract
In this paper agricultural land markets are regarded as organisations, which allows to take the effect of the social embeddedness of exchange into account. The markets-as-organisations approach suggests that markets are governed by an internal ?constitution? containing rules on dissemination of information, control procedures and sanctioning mechanisms that provide advantages to members. The design of the market constitution is believed to be strongly influenced by the constellation of actors and their characteristics. In order to investigate the validity of this assumption the study chooses a comparative approach that analyses the content of land market rules in settings with different actor constellations and tries to find out why they have been established in this way. Both qualitative and quantitative data collected in three village case studies and a survey in two structurally different regions of Poland is used. The results underline that the internal constitution of the organisation ?land market? is designed to serve members? interests by decreasing transaction costs and protecting community welfare and also support the expectation that the rules differ according to actor constellations.
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