IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/bindes/v53y2017i1p27-54.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Contract Engagement in the Small-Scale Tuna-Fishing Economies of East Java

Author

Listed:
  • Dias Satria
  • Elton Li

Abstract

We examine the informal contractual relationships formed by artisanal fishers (AFs) and intermediaries in the small-scale tuna-fishing economies of East Java, Indonesia, using data from a survey of 436 boat captains. Our exploration of the factors motivating AFs to engage in such contracts uses instrumental-variable probit regressions to control for endogeneity in our transaction-cost economics model. This model incorporates the importance of household characteristics, transaction characteristics, transaction costs, risk behaviour, and trust in the choice of contract between AFs and their intermediaries. These intermediaries play an important role in facilitating transactions and contractual relationships between AFs and processors in the marketing value chain. We find that social capital is a statistically significant instrumental variable in our model. We also find that risk behaviour and trust are not statistically significant in influencing the choice of governance structure.

Suggested Citation

  • Dias Satria & Elton Li, 2017. "Contract Engagement in the Small-Scale Tuna-Fishing Economies of East Java," Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 53(1), pages 27-54, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:bindes:v:53:y:2017:i:1:p:27-54
    DOI: 10.1080/00074918.2016.1198467
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00074918.2016.1198467
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/00074918.2016.1198467?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. de Vries, Jasper R. & Turner, James A. & Finlay-Smits, Susanna & Ryan, Alyssa & Klerkx, Laurens, 2022. "Trust in agri-food value chains: a systematic review," International Food and Agribusiness Management Review, International Food and Agribusiness Management Association, vol. 26(2), November.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    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:taf:bindes:v:53:y:2017:i:1:p:27-54. 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: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/CBIE20 .

    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.