Over the past twenty years the theory of the firm, and of organization more generally, has grown into a substantial field of economic research. Yet, peculiarly little attention has been spent on understanding the role of cooperatives and other non-corporate forms of organization. It has simply been assumed that most firms are business corporations and that this is so because having investors ow...

Objective: To analyze the actions of Cooperatives in relation to SDGs context COVID-19 Pandemic. Theoretical framework: For a better understanding research theme question, themes Agenda 2030, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Cooperativism will be briefly substantiated. Method: The study consisted descriptive quantitative research, with application an online questionnaire, via Google For...

Agri-food cooperatives allow farmers to improve their competitiveness and bargaining power. However, the specificities of organizational form, in which owners are decision makers, suppliers, clients, open door conflicts interest. Members’ opportunism comes aftermath this adversely affects cooperatives’ performance. Hence, knowing antecedents these undesirable opportunistic behaviors is an impor...

“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...

This study aims to assess whether the legislation on internal and external supervisory mechanisms in force for German cooperatives allows a more adequate accountability transparency terms of financial reporting compared model adopted Portugal. For this purpose, through qualitative methodology, using content analysis technique multiple case model, total partial compliance indexes were constructe...