The Covid-19 pandemic has caused serious problems for all sectors and financial institutions, including cooperatives. One solution cooperative institutions is to innovate digital technology overcome social distancing. Cooperatives that can maintain their performance during the are those technology. In this study, a qualitative descriptive method was used determine factors influence successful u...

Despite a continuing interest in the compared efficiency of labor-managed and conventional firms, only a handful of comparative empirical studies exist. These studies suggest that labor-managed firms have the same productivity levels as conventional ones, but organize production differently. However, the data used in these studies cover a single industry, or firms matched by industry and size i...

cooperatives, established through a unification of human and economic capital within their members can lead to strengthening of the social capital. the main purpose of this descriptive – correlational research was to investigate the influence of membership in production cooperatives on the level of social capital. the statistical population for the study consisted of: poultry producers in coope...

Farmland abandonment is common in the southern EU countries. This complex phenomenon has a set of interlinked causes and consequences, among latter undermining farmers’ cooperatives role as supply aggregators. The paper discusses multi-actor farmland consolidation model that avoids some drawbacks identified by literature to models land mobilization, mostly transaction agency costs. consists on ...

women's cooperatives provide a social environment where women can work out of their dwelling houses, actively participate in social activities and stand at high levels of decision making in their societies. cooperatives could empower women in such various aspects as social, economic, cultural and psychological dimensions. to investigate the role of women's cooperatives in empowerment ...

Despite a continuing interest in the compared efficiency of labor-managed and conventional firms, only a handful of comparative empirical studies exist. These studies suggest that labor-managed firms have the same productivity levels as conventional ones, but organize production differently. However, the data used in these studies cover a single industry, or firms matched by industry and size i...

This paper analyzes the founding rates of two types of Jewish agricultural cooperatives, the moshav and the kibbutz, to show how political ideology intersects with resource requirements to produce competition and mutualism between organizations. These two populations, which share ideology and a resource base, competed with each other. They both enjoyed mutualism with the population of credit co...

Traditional community support, prevention from disasters, and mitigation depend on the top-down mode of management regulated by government. This study aims to analyze association between social networks its structure decision households’ participation in community. A households survey was conducted Yanliang district Shaanxi province China 393 were targeted. An ordered multi classification logis...