Successful leadership is imperative for a cooperative to flourish. However, there limited literature concerning qualities in the context of cooperatives, most particularly cooperatives global south. This study applied participatory Delphi research technique identify effective community-based societies rural Nepal. A survey 1255 leaders and team members from 210 was undertaken were obtained by u...

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 ...

The strategies, plans and legislation on energy market development decarbonization in the European Union (EU) developed recent years, such as directives implementing package “Clean for all Europeans”, aim at promoting not only renewable sources, but also new institutions that involve of local markets a greater role citizens managing their own generation. At same time, Poland remains economy mos...

A "supermarket revolution" has occurred in developing countries in the past 2 decades. We focus on three specific issues that reflect the impact of this revolution, particularly in Asia: continuity in transformation, innovation in transformation, and unique development strategies. First, the record shows that the rapid growth observed in the early 2000s in China, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thaila...

2 Is cooperative action modern or old fashioned? Why should policymakers pursue it in development strategies? In what way are cooperatives different in terms of economic theory and organisation theory? And if there are differences in organisation, human resource management practices, property rights and forms of collective action, what are the governance issues to be addressed so as to allow co...

This study analyzes characteristics determining member’s willingness to invest in cooperatives using ordered logit model. The data were collected in a field survey among 122 cooperative members in north-central China. The descriptive analysis of survey evidence suggests that cooperatives in China generally having poor ability to deliver the processing services related to product package, gradin...

We contribute to research on cooperative resilience by examining how their main advantage of social foundations may facilitate the assembly capabilities. Drawing from capital literature, we focus strategies and activities a nationally known rural in Indonesia reveal mechanisms, specifically channeling targeting capital, that underlie diverse sets By conceptualizing according cooperatives’ dual ...

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is used to estimate the overall efficiency and productivity growth of credit cooperatives in Japan during 1992–1996. Overall efficiency is decomposed into output technical efficiency and input allocative efficiency. Twenty percent of all credit cooperatives in Japan are foreign owned with more than 90% of those owned by Koreans. The history of institutional discr...