This paper firstly analyzes the two aspects and the two kinds of capitals in new rural construction and then puts forwards the deficiency of countryside in social capital aspect. Theoretically, this paper questions the popular way of founding special cooperative organization in countryside and analyzes the problems in its practical operation. In authors’ opinion, the only way to construct the r...

The agriculture is traditional risky business, but in transition countries agricultural producers should face some additional difficulties. The agri-food chains are still suffering from underdeveloped market institutions creating severe barriers for price discovery and high transaction costs to co-ordinate market exchanges. Co-operatives are usually neglected as a possible governance structure ...

autonomy in rural production cooperatives is one of the most important structural changes that influenced by government policies, specially happened in recent decades and in turn affect their performance. but there is ambiguity in the current performance of autonomous cooperatives, in order to be objective and stability. this study was conducted in the hamadan province. the purpose of the resea...

the purpose of this research was studying relationship between socio- cultural, economical and managerial factors with the participation rate of agricultural cooperative's members in the shirvan chardavol township in the ilam province, iran. the method of this study is descriptive-correlative. a researcher made questionnaire was used as the tool for gathering data. the face and content validity...

the present study is aimed at investigating the factors which influence cooperative managers’ awareness of the cooperative sector. methodologically, this is a descriptive-correlated survey. the study consisted of 498 managers of agricultural cooperatives in tehran(n=498), from among whom 72 were selected through random sampling (n=72). validity of the questionnaire used for collecting data was ...

The Moroccan agricultural cooperative sector is a key player in self-employment and income generation through territorial anchoring. government’s “MOURAFAKA” program offers support for newly created cooperatives, including strategic diagnosis training. This paper analyzes the impact of MOURAFAKA on sustainability cooperatives Morocco. Using original data from survey 232 second database 1131 stu...

“Is it possible to identify a regional cooperative model (or models) of the Asia Pacific region?” With 23 case studies across 11 countries and four sectors (agricultural cooperatives, consumer credit cooperatives worker cooperatives), 44 authors "Waking Asian Co-operative Potential" boldly try answer this question. This voluminous book with around 400 pages-a valuable fruit long collective adve...

In line with the articles dedicated to specific accounting of agricultural cooperatives, previously published in pages magazine, we will present particularities occurred activity cooperatives cultivating and processing vegetables. We start series four obtaining seedlings, maintaining cultures, harvesting, delivering vegetables case cooperative has its own fields, leased or whose use was assigne...