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...

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...

Development of agricultural cooperatives is one the main tasks for successful implementation master plan on restructuring and new rural construction in Phu Tho province. In past years, People’s committee province has been very active state management cooperatives, thereby developing significantly cooperatives. Some models were initially associated with value chain development, high-technology a...

BACKGROUND Out-of-hours primary care services have a high general practitioner (GP) workload with increasing costs, while half of all contacts are non-urgent. OBJECTIVES To identify views of GPs to influence the use of the out-of-hours GP cooperatives. METHODS Cross-sectional survey study among a random sample of 800 GPs in the Netherlands. RESULTS Of the 428 respondents (53.5% response r...

Members are the primary customers and lifeblood of multi-purpose cooperatives. This study aimed to determine extent organizational climate customer relationship management among members a Multi-Purpose Cooperative in Negros Occidental. is anchored Social Exchange Theory Relationship Management theory. The researchers conducted quantitative between November 2021 March 2022 with 347 members. used...

A key challenge in creating a sustainable and energy-efficient society is to make consumer demand adaptive to the supply of energy, especially to the renewable supply. In this article, we propose a partially-centralized organization of consumers (or agents), namely, a consumer cooperative that purchases electricity from the market. In the cooperative, a central coordinator buys the electricity ...

Cuban producer and worker cooperatives’ governance systems have certain features that set them apart from their counterparts in other countries, such as the frequency broader mandates of general assemblies, inclusion managers workers members, no clear division between boards directors management. While this research did not seek to identify factors led these particularities, it focused on ident...

Over the years since their meager beginnings, agribusiness cooperatives in the U.S. have compiled a checkered history of both praise and condemnation. Some observers have argued that cooperatives no longer communicate with, nor represent the best interests of their farmer members. Some critics suggest that cooperatives have stymied, or at least diffused, free market transactions in the agricult...