Grand Challenges are complex issues that require collaborative innovation among heterogeneous actors who draw upon contradictory institutional logics. While existing literature shows how social enterprises and individual organizations reconcile tensions between economic environmental logics, scholars know less about when a broad set of adopt practices priorities balance values. This article exp...

Abstract Producer organisations bear great potential to link small-scale farmers markets. In post-communist economies, historically negative attitudes towards cooperatives are blamed as barriers collaboration, but little is known about the broader range of motives (not) cooperate. We use a structural equation model analyse cooperation intentions in Kosovo’s emerging export-oriented raspberry se...

The management system of agricultural consumer supply and marketing cooperatives is considered. This a structure containing three levels hierarchy: the first level includes control elements; second contains business representatives middle level; third producers. article shows that processes producer in his interaction with customers are end-to-end. paper describes flows informational material n...

The general purpose underlying this study is to investigate the factors involved in the success of poultry growers' cooperatives in the provinces of Western Azarbayjan, Ilam, Hamedan, Khuzistan and Kohgilouyeh and Boweir Ahmad. Using the cluster sampling method and the Cochran’s formula, 21 cooperatives and their members and mangers were selected from among 21 cooperatives with 1305 members. St...

The paper focuses on the strict relation between the continuous changes of the diversified tax regimes of the various types of cooperatives and the political composition of the governments succeeding each other in Italy from the after war period to the present. It emerged that the different types of cooperatives prevailing in the leftwing League of Cooperatives or in the Confederation of Italia...

The agricultural sector plays a crucial role in the Greek economy. Cooperatives are an integral part of the agricultural sector and the logistics cost impacts the pricing policy of the agricultural products, taking into consideration the value added of all trading partners along the supply chain. Many governments all over Europe pay special attention to this issue trying to make agriculture pro...

Agricultural cooperatives are often viewed as appropriate vehicles to facilitate vertical coordination with, or horizontal integration between, small farmers who would otherwise be excluded from value-adding opportunities and discerning markets. In South Africa, renewed interest in development-oriented cooperatives saw the introduction of a new Cooperatives Act in 2005, along with support measu...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the productivity change for agricultural cooperatives in Japan measured by nonparametric output-oriented Malmquist indices of total factor productivity (TFP)┻ The productivity change is decomposed into technical change and technical efficiency change┻ Linear programming techniques are used to calculate the productivity change using a panel data set for 44...

Small and marginal farmers always face problem in production income absence of economy scale. Farmers governments tried to get the advantage collectiveness both ended Cooperative societies were one mitigation techniques. SHG, JLG, club etc are efforts achieve scale marketing but distress proved all incomplete. In year 2002 a special structure comprising characteristics cooperatives society comp...