Objective – This paper aimed to understand the elements in cooperative arrangements of agribusiness that facilitate and hinder cooperation.Design/methodology/approach -A descriptive research was carried out based on 50 questionnaires applied farmers´ members cooperatives Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.Results - Results indicated farmers are increasingly expanding their role making productive activit...

Economic and social development is usually slow and stable. So has been the evolution of cooperative enterprises in general. Every now and then there exist, however, times of change; revolutionary phases in the evolutionary process. These are the times when history is broken and new history is made. I call these phases the ’times of strategic change’, which means in this presentation changes in...

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The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between intellectual capital (IC), which represented by structural (SC), relational [RC], and human (HC), member participation (MP) performance within context agricultural cooperatives. This employs a survey technique involving 104 palm oil smallholders’ cooperatives in Peninsular Malaysia, data are analyzed through partial least squa...