IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/hal/journl/hal-02814998.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Contractual practices and intra-organizational dimensions : the "agricultural societies" in Romania
[Dimension organisationnelle et pratiques contractuelles foncières : les sociétés agricoles en Roumanie]

Author

Listed:
  • Laurence Amblard

    (Marchés, Organisations, Institutions et Stratégies d'Acteurs - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - CIHEAM-IAMM - Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen de Montpellier - CIHEAM - Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - Montpellier SupAgro - Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier, Montpellier SupAgro - Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier)

  • Jean-Philippe Colin

    (Marchés, Organisations, Institutions et Stratégies d'Acteurs - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - CIHEAM-IAMM - Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen de Montpellier - CIHEAM - Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - Montpellier SupAgro - Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier, IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement)

Abstract

The reforms implemented in the Romanian agricultural sector after the collapse of the Ceausescu's regime have led to a massive decollectivization. However, some production associations, named agricultural societies, have remained, on the basis of the former cooperatives of production. On the one hand, the literature about farm restructuring in transition countries has analyzed the evolution of farm organizations with respect to the relative profitability of so-called collective production units and individual farms. On the other hand, the few studies dealing with land tenancy in these contexts do not take into account the specific land tenancy relationships within production associations. This paper aims at (i) characterizing the land organization at the basis of production associations in the Romanian context, and (ii) underlining its consequences for both agricultural societies and their members' land contractual practices. Our analysis is based on a field work conducted in Sebeş, in Transylvania. We show that agricultural societies rest on an "intra-organizational" allocation of land between a direct farming-type system and a tenancy-type system. We also point out the impact of the organizational dimension on the "intra-organizational" land allocation and on the participation of agricultural societies to the tenancy market.

Suggested Citation

  • Laurence Amblard & Jean-Philippe Colin, 2006. "Contractual practices and intra-organizational dimensions : the "agricultural societies" in Romania [Dimension organisationnelle et pratiques contractuelles foncières : les sociétés agric," Post-Print hal-02814998, HAL.
  • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-02814998
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    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:hal:journl:hal-02814998. 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.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using 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: CCSD (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/ .

    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.