Article

 

The impact of institutional change on organisational practices in romanian agriculture : the case of Alba, Transylvania (p.89-107)

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Françoise Simon, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Agronomie de Montpellier, UMR MOISA

Jean-Philippe Colin, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Agronomie de Montpellier, UMR MOISA, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement

Laurence Amblard, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Agronomie de Montpellier, UMR MOISA

Keywords : Romania, institutional change, land reform, agrarian contracts, property rights, farming organizations

JEL classification : P20, P32, Q12, Q15

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to present the consequences of the changes in the class=Section2> institutional environment on organizational and contractual practices in Romanian agriculture. It focuses mainly on the consequences of the redistribution and restitution of land previously managed by the agricultural cooperatives. The results, here exposed, are based on a field research conducted in summer 2001 in Transylvania. Our fist observation is the current diversity in organizational and contractual practices, which are explained by some key elements such as resource endowments and constraints linked to the implementation of institutional change. We will go on to show that previous organizational choices made just after the restitution, due to an organizational path dependency, have constrained the current choices.