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A: A seri (open-air auction) in Keihoku-cho, Kyoto Prefecture, April 2002. The auctioneer is standing on the logs at the far right and to his left are two other auction employees (photo by the authors). B: A seri (open-air auction) in Keihoku-cho, Kyoto Prefecture, April 2002. The auction manager is second from the right. Standing to his right is the auction's largest buyer (photo by the authors).
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In Japan, a well-established, widespread system of local timber market auctions, featuring the exchange of privately owned logs, is increasingly threatened by imports organized according to mass production principles. This article assesses the evolution, rationale, and functions of Japan's timber auctions that were primarily created in post-war Jap...
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... contrast, in the open-air auctions, buyers or their proxy must be present and a buyer's size can be an influence in determining price. On the other hand, open-air auctions can rely on the 'market-making' functions of large players ( Figure 4B) whereas in the silent type if demands for batches of logs do not materialize the market cannot be stimulated. In all cases, minimum purchase prices were established. ...
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... largest buyer at the auction is a sawmill owner from Mie Prefecture and his lumber serves the Tokyo market almost exclusively. In practice, this buyer often functions as a 'market-maker' and during our visit he noticeably stood beside and conferred with the auction manager on most bids ( Figure 4B). Given that many buyers come from outside the locality (and therefore are unlikely to be competing with each other in an everyday manner, there is no need to save face when bidding) and because of Kitayama's powerful brand image, the seri bidding process will likely persist. ...
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... Importantly, the crafters of stakeholder models do not exclude markets, and their evolutionary dynamics are highly varied, predating, coevolving with, and responding to Fordist forestry. In Japan, for example, during the 1950s and 1960s-the heyday of Fordist forestry-small-scale log auctions were expanded throughout the country, reducing transaction costs for local private wood-lot owners and small-scale sawmills (Reiffenstein & Hayter, 2006). These arrangements, rooted in a long history of cooperative forestry (Totman, 1989), are now in slow decline, because of significant opportunity costs outside of forestry for landowners and workers, coupled with low cost imports. ...
Resource conflicts are widespread features of contemporary globalization. In forestry-related resource peripheries, such as British Columbia (BC), various societal stakeholders are demanding a reform of resource uses away from industrial priorities towards more ecological and cultural ones. Forest conflicts represent institutional clashes that lead to new forms of governance based on new inventories, resource maps, science, and zoning. The authors of this paper analyze the remapping of forest resources in BC as part of broader paradigmatic transformations of society and economy from shareholder to stakeholder models of resource governance, i.e. as a shift in policy-making from hierarchical control by governments and markets to more diffuse, democratic forms of governance. This process is accompanied by institutional innovation and thickening that still need to be assessed for their effectiveness. Whether stakeholder remapping can be certified as good governance remains a context-dependent empirical question.
... The simplicity of competitive bidding and asking among many independent buyers and sellers for resources in some locations, such as in Japanese log auctions, is still evident (Reiffenstein and Hayter, 2006). Markets for most resources while retaining competitive price setting, however, no longer exist at a local basis and operate in an abstract manner. ...
This article examines and proposes connections between resource and economic geography from an institutional perspective. Economic geography urgently needs to more substantively embrace resources from its theoretical purview while resource geography's established approaches can be enriched by economic geography's focus on space–place relations, institutional interests and power structures, and the influence of markets on resource use. The article progressively elaborates on the themes of natural resource governance, property rights, evolutionary and spatial dynamics, resource markets, their coordination in value chains and cycles, and the nature of resource peripheries and their remapping that is driven by conflicting institutional considerations.
... Lors d'enchères ascendantes, les offres sont faites publiquement. Reiffenstein et Hayter (2006) ont étudié les caractéristiques du système d'enchères au Japon. Ils ont souligné l'impact positif d'un tel système autant sur le plan social que sur le plan économique. ...
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... Indeed, these activities are important to government hopes and policies to provide jobs in an environmentally sustainable way. Economically, the small firms that comprise the value-added industries have grown in number, are relatively labour intensive, draw upon diverse, small volume timber supplies, serve a wide variety of niche markets, and their growth has been linked to Piore and Sabel's (1984) advocacy of flexible specialisation as the basis for economic rejuvenation (Rees and Hayter 1996, Reiffenstein and Hayter 2006). Environmentally , arguments in favour of small firms and value-added activities are highlighted by M'Gonigle and Parfitt's (1994) Forestopia that proposed that BC's forest economy shift from a " volume-driven to a value-added approach " in which more jobs and a wider range of products are provided from smaller timber harvests. ...
This paper addresses claims that the value-added wood industries contribute towards an economically and environmentally sustainable forest economy in British Columbia, Canada. The small firms that comprise the value-added industries have grown in number, are relatively labour intensive, draw upon diverse, small volume timber supplies, and serve a wide variety of niche markets. Conceptually, the study is informed by an integration of the flexible specialisation model with green entrepreneurship. Empirically, the study adopts an extended case study approach and is based on in-depth semi-structured interviews with respondents of 41 small firms that represent various value-added wood processing activities in Metro Vancouver and with industry associations. The study found that these firms are modestly flexibly specialised and locally embedded but inter-firm networking is weak. As green entrepreneurs, they reveal variation in environmental awareness and performance but are adopters rather than leaders.
This chapter departs from the ‘quality turn’ concept, which is an academic term for consumer shift from a price-biased focus to an emphasis on non-economic aspects of food such as health, food safety, green values and animal welfare. Inspired by the ‘quality turn’, this chapter asks if Spanish consumers in the near future will require a more natural color for salted fish and resist the addition of artificial additives in the fish. Because color is essential to consumer definitions of quality and because color is influenced by the production process and the treatment of fish throughout the value chain, this chapter considers the color of salted fish to be an expression of quality. Based on secondary literature, telephone interviews with Spanish producers and interviews with owners of sidrerias (cider houses) in the Basque region, the chapter investigates possible changes in conventions toward a more natural white fish. The chapter investigates if there will be a change in the current quality convention in favor of green and civic conventions. The focus of the chapter is on supply, demand, and regulations in the value chain for Spanish salted cod.
