Abstract Supporting agricultural cooperatives might contribute to the livelihood improvement of many small‐scale farmers in developing countries. This research examines factors affecting internet use with a focus on female leadership, its effects cooperatives’ economic, social, and innovative performance, distributional economic performance. Our analysis relied data 3,512 collected 2021 from Vi...

This paper aims at positioning producer cooperatives within the Transaction Cost Economics theory, one of the most cited and prolific theories on management studies. To accomplish this goal, I will answer the questions what is a cooperative, which transactions producer cooperatives regulate, under which market conditions they operate, and where are the boundaries for such organizations. This pa...

rural economy has an important role in rural sustainable development in every region or country. however, the rural economy in iran is too much depending on agriculture and development of other rural economy in particular nonfarm activities, has been neglected by iranian rural communities. therefore, the aim of this study was to identify the role of non-farm business on rural sustainable develo...

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...

Introduction Poverty eradication is one of the global challenges, and rural cooperatives provide an effective path to address smallholder households’ poverty. However, effect poverty reduction can show heterogeneity depending on economic capital, human social capital households. Methods Based comprehensive research data status 1,622 households in four provinces less developed regions western Ch...

From the perspective of organization design, this paper investigates and compares the levels and characteristics of China and Japan’s agricultural organization. (1) In Japan, the individual household is the building block of the agricultural organization in that they possess complete moving rights of their labor and complete property rights over land (although the land mobility is limited by go...