Economists look at the entrepreneurship from the prospective of profitability, investment, risk, and insight supporting the economical development but it seems that, in modern societies, entrepreneurship`s function is beyond the economical bounds. According to the stage and importance of entrepreneurship which is known as the society’s economic and culture evolution engine, it is necessary to d...

background fumes released form welding activities are capable of initiating several acute and chronic respiratory effects. objectives the aim of the present study was to evaluate respiratory symptoms and spirometry parameters in welders of a steel industry. methods this cross-sectional study was conducted in a steel industry and involved 60 welders and 40 non-welders. a questionnaire was used t...

This paper analyzes the founding rates of two types of Jewish agricultural cooperatives, the moshav and the kibbutz, to show how political ideology intersects with resource requirements to produce competition and mutualism between organizations. These two populations, which share ideology and a resource base, competed with each other. They both enjoyed mutualism with the population of credit co...

Over the last three decades cooperatives experienced acceleration of institutional innovation with the introduction of many variations to the reference model. It is certainly not surprising that coops changed their organizational structure over time to face the challenges of world. In the United States and in Canada they are commonly referred to as New generation cooperatives, in Italy and Spai...

Conflict can occur as agricultural cooperatives internationalise, both in terms of their relationship with their supplier members and their requirement for capital. These and other critical factors are identified in the literature. Case study research was carried out on two new Zealand cooperatives – Fonterra, a pure cooperative in the dairy industry and Zespri, a cooperative hybrid in the kiwi...

Summary This study investigated the effects of Fadama II cooperatives on poverty status farming households in Oyo State, Nigeria. Specifically, assessed level participation among participants; determined factors influencing cooperatives; examined participants and participants. The was conducted south-western A multi-stage sampling procedure used to select respondents for this study. total numbe...