In this paper we look at issues that arise when people collaboratively create digital content and want to publicly distribute it. Our focus is on the organizational and legal problems. We identify and analyze these issues based on four case studies on amateur content production. Two of the cases, Habbo Hotel and Neverwinter Nights, are about fan/gamer-created content production based on materia...

Changes in the market conditions for fruit and vegetables have induced Dutch cooperative auctions to restructure their sales and marketing activities. Nine auctions merged into VTN (VoedingsTuinbouw Nederland) and established the marketing organisation The Greenery BV. VTN/The Greenery has encountered problems in its relationship with the growers, which may undermine its stability. A model is p...

This paper reports the results of a survey of attitudes of commercial fanners and supply cooperative managers about agricultural supply cooperatives. Cooperative managers and fann­ ers frequently made significantly different responses to questionnaire statements. With a few exceptions, fann size and fanner age did not appear to influence perceptions about supply cooperatives. "",nether a fanner...

The creation of Virtual Power Plants (VPPs) has been suggested in recent years as the means for achieving the cost-efficient integration of the many distributed energy resources (DERs) that are starting to emerge in the electricity network. In this work, we contribute to the development of VPPs by offering a game-theoretic perspective to the problem. Specifically, we design cooperatives (or “co...

Studying the impacts of Fairtrade on rural communities requires examining how Western ethical businesses and eco-friendly social movements affect farmers’ livelihoods. This research took place in coffee-growing Tanzania aimed to understand local prospects for their collaboration with Fairtrade. Although initiative aims strengthen cultivation skills increase quality price coffee production, farm...

This paper describes different elements leading to the success of cooperatives formed by indigenous Maya women of the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. These elements have shown to facilitate the sustainability (permanence over time) of the cooperatives and their presence in the market, while improving the work environment and enhancing the practice of honesty. All these elements have generated an i...

Objective – This paper aimed to understand the elements in cooperative arrangements of agribusiness that facilitate and hinder cooperation.Design/methodology/approach -A descriptive research was carried out based on 50 questionnaires applied farmers´ members cooperatives Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.Results - Results indicated farmers are increasingly expanding their role making productive activit...