The number of agricultural cooperatives increased quickly in Ethiopia since the 1990s. While many papers studied impact membership Ethiopian cooperatives, not much is known on their performance. This study takes a cooperative-level perspective which unique an African context. It compares economic performance proxied by sales revenue and profit wide range northern Ethiopia. Data were collected f...

The centrality of user-members in cooperatives and cooperatives' embeddedness their community a global network influence positively resilience times crisis, as illustrated by cases that acted entrepreneurially during the COVID-19 crisis. Cooperatives are hybrid organizations maximize value, instead profit. They owned, governed, controlled members. more resilient than conventional enterprises th...

This study was conducted to seek the opinion of walnut producers on barriers affecting the success of producers to found production cooperatives regarding horticultural products in Tuyserkan Township, Iran. A sample of 234 walnut producers were randomly selected through multistage cluster sampling technique. Descriptive- correlation research method was used in this study which has been implemen...

electronic commerce as one of the most important of innovation aspects in the process of doing business is used by many organizations and companies in the world. cooperatives as the main part of the country's economy have fundamental role in improving and promoting of economic. therefore, innovation methods and tools, new processes and perform business tasks such as e-commerce will play an impo...

cooperatives can be considered as suitable means to achieve social and economic development, employment and participation. undoubtedly, rural women's membership in cooperatives can be really useful in the process of rural development. social capital is one of the key determinants of women's participation in different social activities. social capital may act directly through physical ...

the purpose of this research was analysis of contents of extension and education in agricultural cooperatives in the lorestan province, iran. the population of study consisted of 832 members of agricultural cooperative in lorestan province, iran in which 260 people were selected as a sample size, using krejcie and morgan table. the results indicate that more than 66.92 percent of the agricultur...

Due to the values, including equality and equity, solidarity, social responsibility, and caring for others, upon which they are based and principles that they embody voluntary and open membership, democratic member control, member economic participation, member education, and concern for the community their very mandate places cooperatives in a unique position to ensure and promote gender equal...