Management of Farm Contracts and Competitiveness

This book presents a new framework for understanding, analyzing and assessing farm contracts and competitiveness. It incorporates interdisciplinary approach and specifies different mechanisms of farm governance; defines types and features of farm contracts; identifies technological, institutional, behavioural, dimensional, and transaction costs factors for contractual choice; specifies effective modes for organizational and contractual arrangements; determines effective boundaries of farms; defines farm competitiveness, its criteria and indicators. Book analyzes structure and efficiency of farm contracts, and assesses farm competitiveness in Bulgaria embracing post-communist institutional and organizational modernization; evaluating efficiency of diverse modes for management of land supply, labour supply, service supply, inputs supply, finance supply, insurance supply, and marketing of farms; assessing competitiveness of unregistered, cooperative and business farms. Book would be helpful for scholars, farmers, policy-makers, representatives of non-governmental and international organizations, and all individuals who want to understand farm contracts and competitiveness.