Co-ops and Collective Impact

Farm Co-ops: How "Special" a Status?

Managerial Challenges and Threats for German Wine Co-ops

Wine production in Germany has a tradition of more than 200 years in each of the 13 German quality wine-growing regions. Even today small grape growers dominate the industry. As a result, most of the viticulturists are members of cooperatives. Our observation that grape growers still turn to wine co-ops, and hence, the increase in co-op members and vineyards, might indicate that the wine co-ops...

Factors predicting trust between GPs and OPs

PURPOSE To study possible differences in trust between general practitioners (GPs) and occupational physicians (OPs) and the explanatory factors for trust. Insight into the factors predicting trust can improve programmes for stimulating the co-operation of GPs and OPs. THEORY On the basis of theories of trust and of social identity theory we expected, (1) in both professions a higher level of...

Health CO-OPs of the Affordable Care Act: promise and peril at the 5-year mark.

In the early stages of drafting what would become the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the notion of including a federal health insurance issuer in the online marketplaces engen-deredanintensedebate. 1

OPs cause bad trips?

Do leaks of hydraulic fluids and jet engine lubricating oils cause potentially toxic fumes to be released into the cabins of commercial airliners? If so, do those fumes cause acute and chronic health problems such as headache, nausea, fatigue, memory loss, and neuromuscular damage in airline crew members and passengers? Those simple questions are at the heart of a brewing controversy. Advocacy ...