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Conflict, fraud, and distrust in Ethiopian agricultural cooperatives 埃塞俄比亚农业合作社的冲突、欺诈和不信任

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Journal of Co-operative Organization and Management Pub Date : 2020-06-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcom.2020.100106

Kifle T. Sebhatu , Tafesse W. Gezahegn , Tekeste Berhanu , Miet Maertens , Steven Van Passel , Marijke D’Haese

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引用次数: 17

Sustainable conditions of agriculture cooperative with a case study of dairy cooperative of Sirajgonj District in Bangladesh 农业合作社的可持续发展条件——以孟加拉国Sirajgonj地区乳品合作社为例

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Journal of Co-operative Organization and Management Pub Date : 2020-06-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcom.2019.100105

Maya Sultana , Junayed Uddin Ahmed , Yoshiharu Shiratake

{"title":"Sustainable conditions of agriculture cooperative with a case study of dairy cooperative of Sirajgonj District in Bangladesh","authors":"Maya Sultana , Junayed Uddin Ahmed , Yoshiharu Shiratake","doi":"10.1016/j.jcom.2019.100105","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcom.2019.100105","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>There are many cooperatives in Bangladesh but most of the cooperatives are not working in the long run. After completion of the project time these cooperatives also finished. In this context, this study shows sustainable conditions of cooperative in the dairy sector of Bangladesh. The study analyses the conditions of dairy farmers in Bangladesh whom are members and not members of the agriculture cooperative with a case study. For the study, a simple random sampling procedure was applied to collect primary data from Sirajgonj district, northwest of Dhaka, where the primary milk producer’s cooperative was established for integrated marketing. Descriptive analysis was used to analyze the data in the study. The cooperative society assured secured market for farmers’ production at a fair price and provides technical assistance through training and extension services that lead the higher production and higher income for the farmers. Motivated farmers showed positive behavior towards society in the long run. These conditions may help to sustain the cooperative society in another sector of agriculture in Bangladesh. Therefore, intervention should be taken for strengthening and expanding sustainable agriculture cooperatives in all sectors of Bangladesh.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":43876,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Co-operative Organization and Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.jcom.2019.100105","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47699006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 28

Impact of Collective Action Membership on the Economic, Social and Environmental Performance of Fruit and Vegetable Farmers in Toledo, Brazil 集体行动成员对巴西托莱多水果和蔬菜农民经济、社会和环境绩效的影响

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Journal of Co-operative Organization and Management Pub Date : 2020-06-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcom.2020.100107

Leandro Pereira dos Santos , Carla Maria Schmidt , Dagmar Mithöfer

引用次数: 10

Factors influencing membership of dairy cooperatives: Evidence from dairy farmers in Thailand 影响乳品合作社成员的因素:来自泰国奶农的证据

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Journal of Co-operative Organization and Management Pub Date : 2020-06-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcom.2020.100109

Thitiya Jitmun , John K.M. Kuwornu , Avishek Datta , Anil Kumar Anal

引用次数: 19

Co-operatives exhibit greater behavioral cooperation than comparable businesses: Experimental evidence 合作社比同类企业表现出更大的行为合作：实验证据

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Journal of Co-operative Organization and Management Pub Date : 2019-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcom.2019.100092

Ethan Tremblay , Afton Hupper , Timothy M. Waring

{"title":"Co-operatives exhibit greater behavioral cooperation than comparable businesses: Experimental evidence","authors":"Ethan Tremblay , Afton Hupper , Timothy M. Waring","doi":"10.1016/j.jcom.2019.100092","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcom.2019.100092","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Cooperatives as can be presumed to rely on the economic cooperation of their members. However, game-theoretic and institutional models suggest that cooperatives may be inherently fragile due to the individual costs of cooperation. Because of this it is widely believed that organizations which rely less on cooperation may be more stable, while organizations that require cooperation may be at higher risk of folding. Therefore, if cooperatively owned or managed businesses do in fact require higher levels of prosocial and cooperative behavior than hierarchically managed firms, they must attract and maintain cooperation among participants in order to function. We hypothesized that successful consumer food cooperatives will exhibit greater generalized cooperation than conventional grocery stores. We employed an experimental dictator game to measure altruistic cooperation among consumers at a food cooperative and a comparable conventional grocery. Cooperative customers exhibit a higher base rate of cooperation than similar conventional shoppers, and this relationship holds even when taking demographic factors such as income, education, and age into account. We conclude that, when successful, consumer cooperatives exhibit greater levels of cooperation than comparable traditional businesses.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":43876,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Co-operative Organization and Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.jcom.2019.100092","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41353046","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 14

Cooperatives governing energy infrastructure: A case study of Berlin’s grid 管理能源基础设施的合作社:柏林电网的案例研究

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Journal of Co-operative Organization and Management Pub Date : 2019-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcom.2019.100094

Zofia Łapniewska

{"title":"Cooperatives governing energy infrastructure: A case study of Berlin’s grid","authors":"Zofia Łapniewska","doi":"10.1016/j.jcom.2019.100094","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcom.2019.100094","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>At present, as energy security has become one of the highest priorities discussed globally, swift social, ecological and economic changes in the energy market are taking place. In many countries, local cooperatives have been established that intend, among other goals, to purchase power grids and increase renewable energy production. This paper presents the outcomes of a research project devoted to one specific case – BürgerEnergie Berlin (BEB). This cooperative, which is bidding for a twenty-year concession to the Berlin power grid (the biggest in Germany), intends to modernise it after the purchase in order to change it into a smart grid and enable a number of local renewable sources to connect to it. A key success factors model for this cooperative – based on field studies and the use of inductive reasoning – is the original contribution to existing research on energy cooperatives. The presented qualitative analysis, taking into account the details of the process of bidding for the concession, can be an inspiration to cooperative researchers and practitioners and a contribution to a future discussion on alternative solutions to the issues of public utilities ownership and their management.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":43876,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Co-operative Organization and Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.jcom.2019.100094","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44379543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 5

The reserve fund: Is it a necessary anchor for a successful cooperative? 预备基金:它是合作社成功的必要基础吗?

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Journal of Co-operative Organization and Management Pub Date : 2019-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcom.2019.100089

Zvi Galor, Michael Sofer

{"title":"The reserve fund: Is it a necessary anchor for a successful cooperative?","authors":"Zvi Galor, Michael Sofer","doi":"10.1016/j.jcom.2019.100089","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcom.2019.100089","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A significant number of cooperatives in the world have a reserve fund. Among cooperative members and leaders as well as researchers, a reserve fund is considered as an indispensable tool for the maintenance and success of the organisation. This article analyses the essence of reserve funds and their operation. It is demonstrated that the existence of this specific fund constitutes a deterioration in the quality of service provided by the cooperative to its members. It is suggested that the absence of reserve funds in a cooperative leads to an increase in the quality of service provided to members. Two case studies of rural primary cooperatives (moshavim) and one of secondary cooperatives (regional purchasing organizations) in Israel are presented. These associations have been operating successfully for a number decades without profit or deficit and do not maintain reserve funds. The cooperatives are founded by and for members who want to pay the lowest possible cost of participation, and the case studies demonstrate that they can operate efficiently and stably over time without relying on reserve funds.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":43876,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Co-operative Organization and Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.jcom.2019.100089","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45585692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 7

Organizational design in Estonian agricultural cooperatives 爱沙尼亚农业合作社的组织设计

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Journal of Co-operative Organization and Management Pub Date : 2019-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcom.2019.100093

Constantine Iliopoulos , Rando Värnik , Maryline Filippi , Liis Võlli , Kaie Laaneväli-Vinokurov

{"title":"Organizational design in Estonian agricultural cooperatives","authors":"Constantine Iliopoulos , Rando Värnik , Maryline Filippi , Liis Võlli , Kaie Laaneväli-Vinokurov","doi":"10.1016/j.jcom.2019.100093","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcom.2019.100093","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Agricultural cooperatives have been extremely successful at producing and bringing food to billions of consumers around the world. Arguably, such success is caused by their superb ability to constantly adapt to the changing needs of their members and consumers. They do this by slightly modifying (tinkering) or completely altering (reinventing) their organizational design. This issue has not been studied in the context of agricultural cooperatives in former Soviet countries. Given the rising importance of agricultural cooperatives in such countries, however, understanding how cooperative adapt to the evolving preferences of their members and customers becomes of utter importance for both cooperative practitioners and policy makers. The current paper addresses the abovementioned knowledge gap. In particular, it identifies the ownership and governance models adopted by Estonian agricultural cooperatives, and provide key insights into how these organizations adapt to the changing needs of their members, consumers, and their external environment. Estonian agricultural cooperatives exhibit little experimentation with non-traditional ownership and governance models. This is due to the lack of technical expertise in the country, the relatively small size of the country’s agricultural cooperatives, and their predominantly defensive strategies. Similarly to other European countries, tinkering is of outmost importance for Estonian agricultural cooperatives.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":43876,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Co-operative Organization and Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.jcom.2019.100093","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41875308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 17

Croatian co-operatives’ story of revival: Overcoming external obstacles 克罗地亚合作社的复兴故事：克服外部障碍

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Journal of Co-operative Organization and Management Pub Date : 2019-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcom.2019.100090

Jasmina Božić , Ivan Šprajc , Armano Srbljinović

{"title":"Croatian co-operatives’ story of revival: Overcoming external obstacles","authors":"Jasmina Božić , Ivan Šprajc , Armano Srbljinović","doi":"10.1016/j.jcom.2019.100090","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcom.2019.100090","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>While in many European countries co-operative entrepreneurship manages to fulfill its economic and social functions successfully, in Croatia a large majority of almost 1200 registered co-operatives struggle hard to accomplish in demanding market conditions while sustaining their social dimension and few succeed. Only 19% of co-operatives accounted for 96% of overall income earned by Croatian co-operatives in 2015. We critically examine obstacles related to external legal, policy, infrastructural and other conditions that are either insufficient, completely missing or, if existent, adversely affect co-operatives. The obstacles were indicated by co-operatives themselves in a qualitative research project conducted between September 2017 and March 2018. We offer two possible explanations for the existence of the obstacles: one concerning immaturity of the Croatian institutional system, the other related to cronyism pervading the system. We see bottom-up integration of the co-operative sector, based on the principle of co-operation among co-operatives, as the best way of moving forward.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":43876,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Co-operative Organization and Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.jcom.2019.100090","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46921272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 6

The significance of social relations in rural development: A case study of a beef-cattle farmer group in Indonesia 社会关系在农村发展中的意义:以印度尼西亚一个肉牛农民群体为例

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Journal of Co-operative Organization and Management Pub Date : 2019-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcom.2019.100088

Rustinsyah Rustinsyah

{"title":"The significance of social relations in rural development: A case study of a beef-cattle farmer group in Indonesia","authors":"Rustinsyah Rustinsyah","doi":"10.1016/j.jcom.2019.100088","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcom.2019.100088","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The annual demand for beef has been increasing in Indonesia. One of the government strategies to develop cattle production and empower cattle farmers is by developing farmer groups to support farmers and promote entrepreneurship. This article explores the work of a farmer group called BPWU which employs internal and external social networking to empower farmers in the villages. The research questions are the following: (1) What are the strategies used by BPWU to develop its business? and (2) What are the impacts of BPWU existence in providing social changes to its surrounding population? The data were collected from July 2015 to December 2016 using interviews, observations, and focus group discussion. Based on the findings, the farmers’ livelihoods have improved because of the building of social relations internally and externally. The internal social relations were developed among cattle farmer groups related to BPWU, whereas the external social relations were built with local residents, educational institutions, officials of the Animal Husbandry of Tuban Regency, officials of the Ministry of Agriculture, financial institutions, and cattle traders from various areas. BPWU has managed to open work opportunities, impart a technological change in beef-cattle cultivation, increase the beef availability, and contribute to rural development.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":43876,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Co-operative Organization and Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.jcom.2019.100088","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42813617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 39