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False prosperity: Rethinking government support for farmers’ cooperatives in China 虚假繁荣：反思中国政府对农民合作社的支持

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Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics Pub Date : 2023-04-25 DOI: 10.1111/apce.12420

Feifei Chen, Zhigang Xu, Yufeng Luo

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What are the determinants affecting cooperatives’ profitability? Evidence from Spain 影响合作社盈利能力的决定因素是什么？西班牙的证据

IF 1.6 4区经济学

Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics Pub Date : 2023-04-25 DOI: 10.1111/apce.12423

Mercè Sala-Ríos

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The effect of commitment in the public goods game with endogenous institution formation 内生制度形成的公共产品博弈中承诺的影响

IF 1.6 4区经济学

Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics Pub Date : 2023-04-20 DOI: 10.1111/apce.12424

Misato Inaba, Tetsuya Kawamura, Kazuhito Ogawa

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Eco-innovation and environmental performance: Insights from Spanish wine companies 生态创新与环境绩效：西班牙葡萄酒公司的启示

IF 1.6 4区经济学

Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics Pub Date : 2023-04-18 DOI: 10.1111/apce.12421

Marcos Carchano, Inmaculada Carrasco, Ángela González

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Are there any differences in the corporate social responsibility strategy of fruit and vegetable production-commercialization cooperatives and other companies operating in southeastern Spain? 在西班牙东南部经营的果蔬生产商业化合作社与其他公司在企业社会责任战略方面是否存在差异？

IF 1.6 4区经济学

Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics Pub Date : 2023-04-11 DOI: 10.1111/apce.12419

Antonio Martos-Pedrero, Luis J. Belmonte-Ureña, Francisco Joaquín Cortés-García

{"title":"Are there any differences in the corporate social responsibility strategy of fruit and vegetable production-commercialization cooperatives and other companies operating in southeastern Spain?","authors":"Antonio Martos-Pedrero, Luis J. Belmonte-Ureña, Francisco Joaquín Cortés-García","doi":"10.1111/apce.12419","DOIUrl":"10.1111/apce.12419","url":null,"abstract":"Customers, civil organizations, the media, and society demand that companies behave in ways beyond regulatory requirements concerning social and environmental issues. Therefore, companies are striving to adapt to these new requirements and to express their commitment to stakeholders through their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategy. The values and principles of cooperatives make them ideal for responsible business management within the framework of CSR. Almeria is a province in southeastern Spain and it is one of the areas with the highest concentration of agribusiness in Europe. This paper aims to empirically verify whether the CSR orientation of agricultural cooperatives in this province are greater than that of other companies because of the application of these principles. Or, if globalization and competition is pushing these organizations to abandon their principles and values while losing their distinctive identity. A cluster analysis was applied to a representative sample of 107 fruit and vegetable production-commercialization companies, and this included five dimensions of study applying the stakeholder theory: partners, employees, customers, farmers, and the environment. According to their legal form, we concluded that these entities do not significantly differ in their corporate social responsibility strategy. The Mann-Whitney nonparametric analysis indicates that only the employee dimension shows significant differences depending on the legal form.","PeriodicalId":51632,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics","volume":"95 1","pages":"249-274"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/apce.12419","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90698363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Scaling strategies, organizational capabilities and scaling social impact: An investigation of social enterprises in China 扩大战略、组织能力和扩大社会影响：中国社会企业调查

IF 1.6 4区经济学

Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1111/apce.12418

Xiao-Min Yu, Xiang-Yang Bi

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Does agricultural cooperative membership influence off-farm work decisions of farm couples? 农业合作社成员资格是否会影响农场夫妇的非农活决策？

IF 1.6 4区经济学

Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics Pub Date : 2023-02-22 DOI: 10.1111/apce.12417

Hongyun Zheng, Puneet Vatsa, Wanglin Ma, Dil Bahadur Rahut

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Identifying the antecedents of opportunism in agri-food cooperatives: a comparative analysis between first- and second-tier cooperatives 确定农业食品合作社机会主义的前因后果：对一级和二级合作社的比较分析

IF 1.6 4区经济学

Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics Pub Date : 2023-02-21 DOI: 10.1111/apce.12416

Jorge Luis Sánchez-Navarro, Narciso Arcas-Lario, Miguel Hernández-Espallardo

{"title":"Identifying the antecedents of opportunism in agri-food cooperatives: a comparative analysis between first- and second-tier cooperatives","authors":"Jorge Luis Sánchez-Navarro, Narciso Arcas-Lario, Miguel Hernández-Espallardo","doi":"10.1111/apce.12416","DOIUrl":"10.1111/apce.12416","url":null,"abstract":"Agri-food cooperatives allow farmers to improve their competitiveness and bargaining power. However, the specificities of their organizational form, in which owners are decision makers, suppliers, and clients, open the door to conflicts of interest. Members’ opportunism comes in the aftermath of this and adversely affects cooperatives’ performance. Hence, knowing the antecedents of these undesirable opportunistic behaviors is an important management concern. This study analyzes the factors that promote cooperative members opportunism by exploring the differences between memberships of first-tier cooperatives and second-tier cooperatives. To this end, an ordinary least squares linear regression model with interaction terms was estimated. The results show that in the case of first-tier cooperatives, environmental uncertainty, members’ heterogeneity, and the cooperative's market orientation increase members’ opportunism, while members’ dependence on the cooperative, long-term orientation of the relationship, and members’ market orientation reduce it. For second-tier cooperatives, our results reveal that cooperative market orientation increases members’ opportunism, while members’ market orientation reduces it. Moreover, we find that members’ dependence on cooperatives, long-term orientation, and environmental uncertainty have different effects on opportunism in each type of membership.","PeriodicalId":51632,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics","volume":"95 1","pages":"201-223"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/apce.12416","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85596317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Inclusive urban entrepreneurial ecosystem: An exploration of factors affecting organizational ambidexterity 包容性城市创业生态系统：影响组织灵活性的因素探讨

IF 1.6 4区经济学

Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics Pub Date : 2023-02-03 DOI: 10.1111/apce.12415

Hojjat Shakiba, Ayoub Pazhouhan, Saba Amiri, Kamal Sakhdari

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Co-creation of business models for smallholder forest farmers’ organizations: Lessons learned from rural Ethiopia and Tanzania 共同创建小农组织的商业模式：从埃塞俄比亚和坦桑尼亚农村吸取的经验教训

IF 1.6 4区经济学

Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics Pub Date : 2023-01-19 DOI: 10.1111/apce.12413

Kendisha Soekardjo Hintz, Jürgen Pretzsch

{"title":"Co-creation of business models for smallholder forest farmers’ organizations: Lessons learned from rural Ethiopia and Tanzania","authors":"Kendisha Soekardjo Hintz, Jürgen Pretzsch","doi":"10.1111/apce.12413","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/apce.12413","url":null,"abstract":"Forest farmers’ organizations (FFOs) have recently gained scholarly attention as a collective action instrument to upgrade value chains. However, insights into possible business models and organizational forms of FFOs remain fragmented. This study thus aimed to co-create FFO business models in order to assess the business models in the context of the regulatory framework and the value chain upgrading theory. The Input–Output scheme and the Business Model Canvas (BMC) were merged to create an analytical lens. Participatory workshops with two farmers’ organizations, each in Ethiopia and Tanzania, were conducted and triangulated with ten focus group discussions and 25 key informant interviews. The co-created business models reflected the grassroots entrepreneurial potential of smallholders to envision FFOs. The gaps requiring external support, namely the know-how in accessing microfinance, silvicultural practices, and entrepreneurship, were revealed. We argue that the transformation from a farmers’ organization to an FFO enables wood value chain upgrading. Diversifying wood with non-wood products is key for FFOs. Regardless of how the regulatory framework shapes external support, the local government plays a pivotal role in facilitating the connection between FFOs and (non-)governmental support actors. Through this research, we develop suggestions for further empirical studies and offer several recommendations for decision-makers.","PeriodicalId":51632,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics","volume":"94 3","pages":"921-949"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/apce.12413","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50137591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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