The aim of the present study is to examine the sustainability reports of cooperatives, which may play an important role in achieving the sustainable development goals and help to identify which economic, environmental, and social sustainability indicators cooperatives are currently reporting....

Across the U.S. groceries are leaving the urban core and contributing to the food insecurity with which approximately 40 million people struggle. Food cooperatives, which are owned by members of the community, can help fill this void. Often to serve the community, the owners volunteer their time...

A cooperative is an institution that aims to improve the welfare of its members and society. The relatively large number of cooperatives has not been able to provide a maximum contribution in improving welfare. The purpose of this research is to: 1) analyze the influence of social capital and...

Purpose of the study: This study aims to investigate the measurement indicators used to measure the literacy rate for several Islamic cooperatives in D.I. Yogyakarta and to formulate an instrument to measure the cooperative literacy level of members and boards.Methodology: The purposive sampling...

The aim of the present study is to measure the enter levels of job satisfaction of working employees in co-operative societies (Banks). The most valuable asset in an organization is Human resource i.e. employee of the organization. An employee of the organization who comprises blue-collar...

Between March 2017 and April 2017, ICEADR Institute conducted a survey among the Romanian fruit producers, in order to identify the problems they face and to highlight their opinions. The survey's results were used to find solutions for an efficient exploitation of fruits’ production....

"In Co-operative Struggles, Denise Kasparian expands the theoretical horizons regarding labour unrest by proposing new categories to make visible and conceptualize conflicts in the new worker co-operativism of the twenty-first century. After the depletion of neoliberal reforms at the dawn of the...

The ‘co-operative principles' are a set of operating and aspirational guidelines for co-operative businesses that originated in England in the 1840s and are used worldwide today. We evaluate the proposition that the co-operative principles constitute institutional adaptations by helping...

Development, which is not only a quantitative growth as economic growth but also in consideration of the socio-cultural, ethical and ecological values together with the economy, is the provision of improvement in the living conditions of the majority of the population. Sustainable development is...

Civilising Rural Ireland examines how modern Ireland emerged out of the social and economic transformation prompted by the rural co-operative movement. The movement emerged in response to systemic economic problems that arose throughout the nineteenth century and coincided with a wide-ranging...

A growing body of research has been investigating the role of management practices and managerial behaviour in conventional private firms and public sector organizations. However, little is known about managers' behavioural profile in noninvestor-owned firms. This paper aims to fill this gap by...

Microfinance co-operatives (MFCs) are increasingly accessing loans from other financial institutions to finance their lending activities. However, knowledge about the association between loans from other institutions and MFCs’ performance is limited. Therefore this paper contributes to the...

There is hardly any evidence on earnings properties of co-operatives for which profit maximisation is not a primary goal. We find that cooperatives in Germany exhibit higher levels of timely loss recognition when they have more members(owners), when they pursue charitable objectives, and when...