The aim of the present study is to examine sustainability reports cooperatives, which may play an important role in achieving sustainable development goals and help identify economic, environmental, social indicators cooperatives are currently reporting. For this purpose, a total 168 were examined for that use Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) G4 reporting, included Sustainability Disclosure Da...

a strength of agricultural production cooperatives is improving the technical knowledge of their members which is along with their function in large-scale development. one of the main obstacles to the success of cooperatives is their inability in improving the technical knowledge of their members. the current study evaluates the role of production cooperatives of fars province, iranin improving...

Despite the surge of interest in platform cooperatives, we have a limited understanding dynamics worker-member participation these cooperatives. Drawing on interviews with 21 senior leaders and founders worker investigate participation, finding that cooperatives experience some successes many challenges. We then build theory about how four distinct features cooperatives—the facilitation multiho...

The New Generation Cooperatives: Case Studies are made possible with support from the Illi-nois Council on Food and Agricultural Research (C-FAR) and the Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs (IIRA). A collection of ten case studies with an introduction is available from IIRA in print and on the IIRA web page. Quoting from these materials for noncommercial purposes is permitted provided proper c...

fishing as one of the most important agricultural sectors has an important role in providing the protein for people. pareh cooperatives despite of having a long history, are faced with problems such as loss of fishing catch compare with previous years, the high cost of purchasing tools and equipments to catch and transportation and location of fishing become unfavorable due to natural and human...

given the importance of cooperatives in women's empowerment and the necessity of improving their performance, the present study was conducted to investigate factors or constructs discriminating successful and non-successful women's cooperatives to recognize the enabling conditions for cooperative's success. this was a co relational-survey type research in which 12819 of the membe...

Small and marginal farmers always face problem in production income absence of economy scale. Farmers governments tried to get the advantage collectiveness both ended Cooperative societies were one mitigation techniques. SHG, JLG, club etc are efforts achieve scale marketing but distress proved all incomplete. In year 2002 a special structure comprising characteristics cooperatives society comp...

This paper examines the value interplay and governance challenges among cooperatives, particularly operating in an extreme environment such as Indonesia’s BMTs (Islamic cooperatives). act a “bridge” for small medium enterprises to gain financial support unobtainable from more formal institutions. have experienced unprecedented growth Indonesia. Recently, there has been alarming increase instanc...