IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/zbw/iamodp/126.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Agroholdings and clusters in Kazakhstan's agro-food sector
[Agroholdings und Clusters in Kasachstan’s Agrar- und Ernährungssektor]

Author

Listed:
  • Wandel, Jürgen

Abstract

The paper provides an overview of the institutional arrangements on the micro level that have evolved in the agro-food sector of Kazakhstan in the course of transition. Emphasis is laid on more complex arrangements like agroholdings and clusters, hitherto mostly unknown in the agro-food sectors of established market economies. It is shown that agroholdings are concentrated mainly in the northern part of Kazakhstan and to a large extent in the grain sector, while in the south a scattered small scale (individual) farm structure has emerged. Parallel to this market-driven development, the Kazakhstani government tries to promote other institutional arrangements that it deems to be of superior competitiveness, especially agro-food clusters. Refering to Hayek's concept of pretence of knowledge and empirical evidence of cluster facilitation policies of other countries the success of the Kazakhstani cluster initiative is questioned.

Suggested Citation

  • Wandel, Jürgen, 2009. "Agroholdings and clusters in Kazakhstan's agro-food sector [Agroholdings und Clusters in Kasachstan’s Agrar- und Ernährungssektor]," IAMO Discussion Papers 126, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO).
    • Handle: RePEc:zbw:iamodp:126
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/32793/1/613840038.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Other versions of this item:

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Oliver E. Williamson, 2000. "The New Institutional Economics: Taking Stock, Looking Ahead," Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 38(3), pages 595-613, September.
    2. Wandel, Jurgen, 2010. "The Cluster-Based Development Strategy In Kazakhstan’S Agro-Food Sector: A Critical Assessment From An "Austrian" Perspective," IAMO Discussion Papers 91760, Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO).
    3. Dmitri Rylko & Robert W Jolly, 2005. "Russia's New Agricultural Operators: Their Emergence, Growth and Impact," Comparative Economic Studies, Palgrave Macmillan;Association for Comparative Economic Studies, vol. 47(1), pages 115-126, March.
    4. Ron Martin & Peter Sunley, 2003. "Deconstructing clusters: chaotic concept or policy panacea?," Journal of Economic Geography, Oxford University Press, vol. 3(1), pages 5-35, January.
    5. repec:ucp:bkecon:9780226320625 is not listed on IDEAS
    6. Gramzow, Andreas, 2007. "Od­dol­ne Inicja­ty­wy Ja­ko Sz­an­sa Po­pra­wy, Ja­ko­sci Życia na WSI? Wy­ni­ki Stu­di­um Przy­pad­ku w Bal­to­wie (Po­lud­nio­wo-​Wschod­nia Pols­ka) [Tourismus als eine Möglichkeit zur Erhöhung," IAMO Discussion Papers 103, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO).
    7. Israel M. Kirzner, 1997. "Entrepreneurial Discovery and the Competitive Market Process: An Austrian Approach," Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 35(1), pages 60-85, March.
    8. North, Douglass C, 1994. "Economic Performance through Time," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 84(3), pages 359-368, June.
    9. Rungsuriyawiboon, Supawat & Wang, Xiaobing, 2007. "Recent evidence on agricultural efficiency and productivity in China: a metafrontier approach [Neue Anhaltspunkte für Effizienz und Produktivität in der chinesischen Agrarproduktion: Eine Metafront," IAMO Discussion Papers 104, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO).
    10. Trefflich, Annette, 2007. "Support scheme of food processing firms: A driving force for rural development?," IAMO Discussion Papers 105, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO).
    11. Ulrich Koester, 2005. "A revival of large farms in Eastern Europe—how important are institutions?," Agricultural Economics, International Association of Agricultural Economists, vol. 32(s1), pages 103-113, January.
    12. Wandel, Jurgen, 2007. "Integrated Structures, Market Forces and Competition in Russia's Agro-Food Sector: An Assessment from the Perspective of the Austrian School of Economics," 102nd Seminar, May 17-18, 2007, Moscow, Russia 10019, European Association of Agricultural Economists.
    13. Rylko, Dmitri & Jolly, Robert W., 2005. "Russia's New Agricultural Operators: Their Emergence, Growth and Impact," Staff General Research Papers Archive 12635, Iowa State University, Department of Economics.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Hermans, Frans, 2018. "The potential contribution of transition theory to the analysis of bioclusters and their role in the transition to a bioeconomy," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 12(2), pages 265-276.
    2. Vantomme, Katharina, 2017. "Labour rationing of different farm types in Kazakhstan: A shadow price analysis," Studies on the Agricultural and Food Sector in Transition Economies 269557, Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO).
    3. repec:zbw:iamost:269557 is not listed on IDEAS
    4. Vantomme, Katharina, 2017. "Labour rationing of different farm types in Kazakhstan: A shadow price analysis," Studies on the Agricultural and Food Sector in Transition Economies, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), volume 88, number 88.
    5. repec:zbw:iamodp:234476 is not listed on IDEAS
    6. Petrick, Martin & Pomfret, Richard, 2016. "Agricultural policies in Kazakhstan," IAMO Discussion Papers 234476, Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO).
    7. Hermans, Frans L. P. & Chaddad, Fabio R. & Gagalyuk, Taras & Senesi, Sebastian & Balmann, Alfons, 2017. "The emergence and proliferation of agroholdings and mega farms in a global context," International Food and Agribusiness Management Review, International Food and Agribusiness Management Association, vol. 20(2), April.
    8. Andriy Matyukha & Peter Voigt & Axel Wolz, 2015. "Agro-holdings in Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan: temporary phenomenon or permanent business form? Farm-level evidence from Moscow and Belgorod regions," Post-Communist Economies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 27(3), pages 370-394, September.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. repec:zbw:iamodp:91766 is not listed on IDEAS
    2. Wandel, Jurgen, 2007. "Integrated Structures, Market Forces and Competition in Russia's Agro-Food Sector: An Assessment from the Perspective of the Austrian School of Economics," 102nd Seminar, May 17-18, 2007, Moscow, Russia 10019, European Association of Agricultural Economists.
    3. Matyukha, Andriy, 2017. "Business groups in agriculture impact of ownership structures on performance: The case of Russia's agroholdings," Studies on the Agricultural and Food Sector in Transition Economies 254051, Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO).
    4. Wandel, Jurgen, 2010. "The Cluster-Based Development Strategy In Kazakhstan’S Agro-Food Sector: A Critical Assessment From An "Austrian" Perspective," IAMO Discussion Papers 91760, Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO).
    5. repec:zbw:iamodp:91760 is not listed on IDEAS
    6. repec:zbw:iamost:254051 is not listed on IDEAS
    7. Matyukha, Andriy, 2017. "Business groups in agriculture. Impact of ownership structures on performance: The case of Russia's agroholdings," Studies on the Agricultural and Food Sector in Transition Economies, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), volume 85, number 85.
    8. Jürgen Wandel, 2011. "Business groups and competition in post-Soviet transition economies: The case of Russian “agroholdings”," The Review of Austrian Economics, Springer;Society for the Development of Austrian Economics, vol. 24(4), pages 403-450, December.
    9. Pascal Grouiez, 2014. "Farming strategies regarding "social responsibility" in the Russian agricultural sector," Post-Print halshs-01064450, HAL.
    10. Kimhi, Ayai & Lerman, Zvi (ed.), 2015. "Agricultural transition in post-soviet Europe and Central Asia after 25 years: International workshop in honor of Professor Zvi Lerman," Studies on the Agricultural and Food Sector in Transition Economies, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), volume 79, number 79.
    11. Hockmann, Heinrich & Bokusheva, Raushan & Bezlepkina, Irina V., 2007. "Agroholdings membership: does that make a difference in performance?," 102nd Seminar, May 17-18, 2007, Moscow, Russia 10023, European Association of Agricultural Economists.
    12. Daniel L. Bennett, 2021. "Local economic freedom and creative destruction in America," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 56(1), pages 333-353, January.
    13. Kimhi, Ayal & Swinnen, Johan & Van Herck, Kristine & Vranken, Liesbet & Csaki, Csaba & Jambor, Attila & Koester, Ulrich & Herzfeld, Thomas & Glauben, Thomas & Dries, Liesbeth & Teuber, Ramona & Meyers, 2015. "Agricultural transition in Post-Soviet Europe and Central Asia after 25 years: International workshop in honor of Professor Zvi Lerman," Studies on the Agricultural and Food Sector in Transition Economies 207071, Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO).
    14. Maurel, Marie-Claude, 2015. "From Disappearance To Recovery: Family Farming In Central Europe. Questioning The Path Dependency Hypothesis," Village and Agriculture (Wieś i Rolnictwo), Polish Academy of Sciences (IRWiR PAN), Institute of Rural and Agricultural Development, vol. 1(166.1).
    15. Evert-Jan Visser & Oedzge Atzema, 2007. "Beyond clusters: Fostering innovation through a differentiated and combined network approach," Papers in Evolutionary Economic Geography (PEEG) 0705, Utrecht University, Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Group Economic Geography, revised Jun 2007.
    16. Wandel, Jürgen, 2011. "Integrierte Strukturen im Agrar- und Ernährungssektor Russlands: Entstehungsgründe, Funktionsweise, Entwicklungsperspektiven und volkswirtschaftliche Auswirkungen. Band I und II," Studies on the Agricultural and Food Sector in Transition Economies, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), volume 63, number 63.
    17. repec:zbw:iamost:207071 is not listed on IDEAS
    18. Farzana Chowdhury & Siri Terjesen & David Audretsch, 2015. "Varieties of entrepreneurship: institutional drivers across entrepreneurial activity and country," European Journal of Law and Economics, Springer, vol. 40(1), pages 121-148, August.
    19. Ratan J. S. Dheer, 2017. "Cross-national differences in entrepreneurial activity: role of culture and institutional factors," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 48(4), pages 813-842, April.
    20. Grouiez, Pascal, 2013. "Understanding the puzzling resilience of the land share ownership in Russia: the input of Ostrom’s approach," Revue de la Régulation - Capitalisme, institutions, pouvoirs, Association Recherche et Régulation, vol. 14.
    21. Stone, Alastair, 2008. "Institutional reform: A decision-making process view," Research in Transportation Economics, Elsevier, vol. 22(1), pages 164-178, January.
    22. Ostapchuk, I. & Curtiss, J. & Gagalyuk, T., 2018. "Holding Affiliation Effects on Performance and Growth: Analysis of Ukrainian Farms," 2018 Conference, July 28-August 2, 2018, Vancouver, British Columbia 277468, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
    23. Hahlbrock, Konstantin & Hockmann, Heinrich, 2011. "Influence Of The Integration Of Agroholdings With Russian Farms On Total Factor Productivity And Its Subcomponents," 51st Annual Conference, Halle, Germany, September 28-30, 2011 114508, German Association of Agricultural Economists (GEWISOLA).
    24. Engelhardt, Sebastian v. & Freytag, Andreas, 2013. "Institutions, culture, and open source," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 95(C), pages 90-110.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Agroholdings; cluster; Kazakhstan; agricultural policy; institutional change; Agroholdings; Cluster; Kasachstan; Agrarpolitik; institutioneller Wandel;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • Q13 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Markets and Marketing; Cooperatives; Agribusiness
    • Q18 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Policy; Food Policy; Animal Welfare Policy
    • L22 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Firm Organization and Market Structure

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:zbw:iamodp:126. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/iamoode.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.