TY - JOUR
T1 - Financial constraints and technical efficiency
T2 - some empirical evidence for Italian producers' cooperatives
AU - Maietta, Ornella Wanda
AU - Sena, Vania
PY - 2010/3
Y1 - 2010/3
N2 - In this paper, we test the extent to which producers' cooperatives can experience an increase in technical efficiency following a tightening of financial constraints. This hypothesis is tested on a sample of Italian conventional and cooperative firms for the wine production and processing sector, using frontier analysis. The results support the hypothesis that increasing financial pressure can affect positively the cooperatives efficiency. Journal compilation
AB - In this paper, we test the extent to which producers' cooperatives can experience an increase in technical efficiency following a tightening of financial constraints. This hypothesis is tested on a sample of Italian conventional and cooperative firms for the wine production and processing sector, using frontier analysis. The results support the hypothesis that increasing financial pressure can affect positively the cooperatives efficiency. Journal compilation
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UR - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8292.2009.00404.x/abstract
U2 - 10.1111/j.1467-8292.2009.00404.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-8292.2009.00404.x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77950794007
SN - 1370-4788
VL - 81
SP - 21
EP - 38
JO - Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics
JF - Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics
IS - 1
ER -