The effects of labour skills on the economic role of portuguese wine co-operatives

• Autor(a) principal: Rebelo, João
• Data de Publicação: 2000
• Outros Autores: Caldas, José Vaz, Teixeira, Manuel
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/9926

In the agro-food system, the vertical co-ordination in the form of co-operatives has consi­derable importance. In this paper, we present a function that synthesises the specific economic role of agricultural co-operatives. In the empirical research, we link the performance of the Por­ tuguese Wine Co-operatives (PWCs) and the skills of the human resources employed by them. The results of the multinomial legit model show that the PWCs are able to improve their perfor­ mance through the recruitment of skilled professionals in the areas of wine production, manage­ment and by delegating more decision-making powers from the Board to professional managers.