maintenance relationships customers, suppliers and the community are of key factors, maintenance work positive relationshipsin cooperatives.if ownership and structureof cooperativenot entitle of protection and support cooperationculture,will endanger overturning.based on the purpose of this study was analysis of social-cultural factors effecting of production cooperatives' success greenhou...

despite various efforts towards empowerment of cooperatives in iran, much in agreement with this concept and strategies can not be observed. the purpose of this descriptive study was to investigate the solutions to empowering production cooperatives. the delphi technique was employed to do this study. the target population consisted of specialists in national provincial and specialists (n=15). ...

In this paper, we present a directly applicable scheme for electricity consumption shifting and effective demand curve flattening. The scheme can employ the services of either individual or cooperating consumer agents alike. Agents participating in the scheme, however, are motivated to form cooperatives, in order to reduce their electricity bills via lower group prices granted for sizable consu...

Introduction: This article is part of a Focus Theme of Methods of Information in Medicine on Health Record Banking. Background: Healthcare is often ineffective and costs are steadily rising. This is in a large part due to the inaccessibility of medical and health data stored in multiple silos. Further more, in most cases molecular differences between individuals that result in different suscept...

This paper reports how a new model of social enterprise—the social cooperative (SCs)—has become instrumental, in the Italian context, in the expansion of the social economy. It underlines the contribution these associations have made toward broadening the concept and standard parameters of volunteer organizations, providing basic social welfare services, and integrating the disadvantaged into t...

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...