In the Eastern DRC, coffee farmers combine different sales outlets available to them. Cooperative members sell cooperatives they belong as well informal markets, which include a channel of illegal cross-border smuggling. this conflict affected region, markets persist irrespective presence cooperatives. This paper seeks understand motivating factors sideselling behavior cooperative members. We s...

The development of Renewable Energy (RE) has become a major societal challenge. Even though RE technology is improving fast, the general public has been slow to adopt it. Meanwhile many RE cooperatives have been created; they act as social entrepreneurs in utilizing the social capital of a community to engage the public. Thus, the purpose of this chapter is to consider how they can contribute t...

The management system of agricultural consumer supply and marketing cooperatives is considered. This a structure containing three levels hierarchy: the first level includes control elements; second contains business representatives middle level; third producers. article shows that processes producer in his interaction with customers are end-to-end. paper describes flows informational material n...

Cooperatives are a fairly new form of economic system in Korea compared to the western nations, yet, it has caught many attentions since the Fundamental Cooperative Act was enacted in 2011. Korea, once a very traditional community-based society, used to develop similar systems such as dooreh and poomasi. Thus, cooperatives have been astonishingly gaining popularity in various aspects recently a...

The first radio taxi service in Brazil was created in Curitiba in 1976. The business model used that time was still in place until the creation of taxi service online applications for mobiles in 2012. Taxi cooperatives and associations saw their traditional business model being run over by the new technology. The final objective of this investigation is to verify how the cooperative business mo...

BACKGROUND In recent years, Dutch general practitioner (GP) out-of-hours service has been reorganised into large-scale GP cooperatives. Until now little is known about GPs' experiences with working at these cooperatives for out-of-hours care. The purpose of this study is to gain insight into GPs' satisfaction with working at GP cooperatives for out-of-hours care in separated and integrated coop...

The future of energy generation is expected to become increasingly decentralized. Today, many customers are already more than demand units, they also act as energy producers (prosumers) and thus participants in the energy market. The development of energy cooperatives with underlying microgrids in recent years undermines this observation. Information and communication technologies enable the ma...

We hypothesize that institutions such as agricultural cooperatives influence regional levels of variety diversity through input supply, processing or marketing functions. This diversity can also affect yield, a partial measure of crop productivity. We test these hypotheses with data from southern Italy, a mega-diversity spot and centre of diversity for durum wheat. Cooperatives in the southern ...

This research, which is based on a survey of savings and credit unions funded by the Directorate Cooperatives Small Medium Enterprises, aims to identify assess how risk, working capital, internal control affect liquidity. Secondary data from Ministry Enterprises served as foundation for this study's data. The quantitative research methodology was employed in study. findings study demonstrate th...