Agricultural marketing cooperatives are of panoramic socioeconomic importance. As owners, decision-makers, and suppliers, their members' opportunism is great concern to competitiveness. In this study, we analyze sthe impact governance mechanisms on opportunism. We explore the nonlinear effects differences between memberships first-tier federated cooperatives. Empirical results show that not all...

The purpose of the article is to study foreign experience cooperative movement and, in particular, production cooperatives, effective examples which are proposed be used Ukraine. revealed special characteristics activities cooperatives European countries and Asia America. Arguments favor stimulating development economic crisis, as inherent balance interests owners producers allows achieve their...

It has become normative in organization and management studies literature to consider scaling as a synonym for organizational growth. Scaling is typically understood scaling-up. This article demonstrates that, the context of post-growth organizations, involves more complex set dynamics. Directing scholarly attention Italian Social Agricultural Cooperatives (i.e. organizations that hold differen...

Considering that, as regards the fast-growing agricultural cooperative sector (currently, approximately 4,000 cooperatives are registered), there neither operating rules, nor works guiding co-operators in economic activity, we consider that article hereby may be extremely useful both for them and professional accountants working field. From point of view setting up, organization functioning, ha...