The poor state of roads and the financial inability many smallholder dairy farmers to afford better means transport have led more rely mainly on motorcycles as a relatively accessible access market. This study, therefore, sought establish determinants use motorcycle among in Sotik Sub-County, Kenya. Rational Choice Theory guided this study. A sample size 384 was selected participate Data collec...

Since Marshall, the standard approach to developing a theory of competitive markets is to separate demand behavior (“consumer theory”) from supply behavior (“producer theory”) and then use the notion of market equilibrium to reconcile demand and supply. This note studies producer theory and a separate one studies consumer theory. The standard model has the following features. Firms are describe...

the purpose of this study was to investigate and to analyze the barriers to the development of sport cooperatives in iran professional sport with an emphasis on article 44. as this study was qualitative, elites and experts were qualitatively interviewed to identify the most important barriers to the development of sport cooperatives. the sample consisted of those subjects who provided the most ...

there are always factors and forces which stimulate and threaten the participation of women in social fields. the general goal of this research is to study the viewpoints of actors (agents, managing board, and members of cooperatives) on the participation of women in women’s cooperatives. this is a quantitative (descriptive) research. considering the limitations of research and the criterion pr...

Introduction Argan oil has sky-rocketed from a mere tourist attraction to one of the most prized oils in the world in a few short years. Argan oil’s unique savor and multiple pharmacological properties are responsible for this success. Argan oil is almost exclusively produced in southwestern Morocco, one of the poorest parts of the country, where all-women cooperatives specialize in high qualit...

As it is well known, the theory of cooperative games finds applications in many fields. The goal of this paper is to highlight some applications of cooperative games, resulting from the cooperation between the Universities of Bergamo and Krakow, and some related open problems. The paper is organized in three main sections. The first deals with the description of some specific fields where the t...

This study investigates the impact of internationalization on the results achieved by agricultural cooperatives in the State of Parana, at the same time examining strategies for diversification of markets as well as diversification of products aimed exclusively at international markets. Of the 28 cooperatives to be included in the study, 67.9% returned valid structured questionnaires. The colle...

This paper describes a decision support system that has been designed and developed to evaluate and rank the financial profile of the main Apicultural Cooperatives and/or Union Cooperatives (A.U.C.) and Apicultural Enterprises (A.P.E.) of the Greek beekeeping industry. This system, called APIDESSYS , applies a multicriteria analysis and utilises the basic financial ratios that express the Liqui...

In frequency-dependent games, strategy choice may be innate or learned. While experimental evidence in the producer-scrounger game suggests that learned strategy choice may be common, a recent theoretical analysis demonstrated that learning by only some individuals prevents learning from evolving in others. Here, however, we model learning explicitly, and demonstrate that learning can easily ev...