Montero (2022) explores a discontinuity in a land reform in El Salvador and reports two main findings. First, relative to outside-owned haciendas operated by contract workers, the productivity of worker-owned cooperatives is higher for staple crops and lower for cash-crop. Second, cooperative...

Montero (2022) explores a discontinuity in a land reform in El Salvador and reports two main findings. First, relative to outside-owned haciendas operated by contract workers, the productivity of worker-owned cooperatives is higher for staple crops and lower for cash-crop. Second, cooperative...

This study explores barriers to cooperation among cooperatives in the uMgungundlovu District in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, based on a cross-sectional qualitative design with twenty-six conveniently selected cooperatives. Representatives of the participating cooperatives were interviewed using...

The organizational model described in this paper is intended to increase the proportion of cooperatives in the economy.The motivation behind this paper is to help reduce wealth inequalities. Increasing the proportion of cooperatives in the economy would reduce global wealth inequalities because...

This study evaluated suitability of the provided co-operative education (CE) on the aspects of context, input and process of delivery. The study was informed by the Context, Input, Process and Product (CIPP) Model. A Constructivist Paradigm was used to focus the study. While a cross-sectional...

This paper examines drivers influencing provision of co-operative education in Sengerema and Ukerewe districts specifically on the influence of membership size, funding and cost of education, activeness of the AMCOS management and readiness of members as well as seasonality timing on provision...

This article explores the Nepalese cooperative movement during the last sixty-five years. It is now widely recognized that Nepal's cooperative movement has the capacity and promise to reduce societal economic inequities by reducing poverty and creating job possibilities. In the changing economic...

As far as the development of co-operative societies in Tanzania is concerned, it is important to study not only the history of co-operative societies, but also history of Co-operative Education (CE). History ascertains ways through which CE has been featured in the development of Co-operative...

The concept and mainstream approaches of development cooperation (DC) have been criticised since the early beginning of their existence. Post-development (PD) scholars have been criticising international DC since 1990 for both its Western perspective and the lack of reflection on asymmetrical...

. This study aims to determine the extent of the implementation of cooperative principles. The analysis model uses descriptive statistics with the factor analysis and index methods using panel data, namely Co-op Principles Implementing Index (CPII). This research reveals that the performance of...

This study investigates what factors relate to the coffee farmer's cooperative affiliation decision and whether this decision impacts the farmer's cash holdings. First, we propose a cooperative affiliation model based on transaction cost economics theory. There is a lack of consensus in the...

Wohnungsgenossenschaften dienen nicht primär der Gewinnerzielung und -ausschüttung, sondern bilden Rücklagen und vergrößern ihren Wohnungsbestand, von dessen günstiger Nutzung die Genossen profitieren. Dies kann mit Stiftungen verglichen werden und führt zu verschiedenen hier diskutierten...

Wohnungsgenossenschaften dienen nicht primär der Gewinnerzielung und -ausschüttung, sondern bilden Rücklagen und vergrößern ihren Wohnungsbestand, von dessen günstiger Nutzung die Genossen profitieren. Dies kann mit Stiftungen verglichen werden und führt zu verschiedenen hier diskutierten...

The productivity and political incentive of Chinese cooperative movement are still in controversy. We argue that the cooperative brings both scale effect and monitoring cost, and the free exit rights reduce the monitoring cost and raise the net revenue, but the radicalism lowers the effort input...

The organizational model described in this paper is intended to increase the proportion of cooperatives in the economy.The motivation behind this paper is to help reduce wealth inequalities. Increasing the proportion of cooperatives in the economy would reduce global wealth inequalities because...

Algorithms play an increasingly important role in economic situations. Often these situations are strategic, where the artificial intelligence may or may not be cooperative. We study the determinants and forms of algorithmic cooperation in the infinitely repeated prisoner's dilemma. We run a...

This paper constructs a new conceptual framework around the impacts of member heterogeneity on cooperative union (federated cooperative) performance considering both a union’s capital factor structure and its service link operations structure, and that governance control rights serve as an...

We analyze multiplayer prisoner's dilemmas in continuous-time experiments. We control for strategic incentives when the number of players changes (that is, we keep constant the payoffs from all defect, all cooperate, and unilateral defection and cooperation). By studying three different...

Worker cooperatives—firms owned and governed by their workers—have experimented with organizational structure in aid of greater equality. Gender theorists and cooperativists have argued that bureaucracy produces inequality, but bureaucracy has also demonstrably reduced organizational...

Conditional cooperation is usually investigated in experiments where the choices of others are known. In many circumstances, however, there is uncertainty about others’ cooperativeness. Using a novel experimental protocol, we manipulate the perceived likelihood of cooperation in a Prisoner's...

Successful leadership is imperative for a cooperative to flourish. However, there is limited literature concerning leadership qualities in the context of cooperatives, and most particularly in cooperatives in the global south. This study applied the participatory Delphi research technique to the...

In Korea, the private sector plays a core role in the technology research development area. The ratio of the private sector in R&D expenditure was 75.7% in 2013. The total R&D investment ratio including the public sector to GDP ratio was 4.15%, recording the highest position in the world,...

This study proves that economic, social and sustainability objectives are present in the seven co-operative principles, which are the guiding standards for co-operatives in their daily practice. Accordingly, this study proposes that the three objectives are measured in determining co-operative...

A new generation of co-operative businesses has struggled to identify pathways to transformative scale in their industries. This case study analyses a multi-stakeholder network of single-stakeholder co-ops that emerged in the Colorado solar energy industry that could be a replicable model for...

Human enterprise and social systems of organizing economic activity are predominantly based either on competitive or cooperative principles. Despite the dominance of competitive principles in contemporary capitalism, historically these principles manifested in many different combinations in...

The last decade has seen significant attention and debate among academics, policymakers, and the broader public about how to accelerate the “clean energy transition” in the United States. Legal academics have made valuable contributions to the literature in this field, developing a rich body...

This paper describes an organizational model that is intended to increase the proportion of co-operatives in the economy. This organizational model is of large co-operative companies that are networks of small co-operative self-governing teams, where these teams are legally independent companies...

Lehtimäki v Cooper is a significant Supreme Court decision which establishes that the members of charitable companies are in a fiduciary relationship with respect to the purposes of their organisation. Its core principles have the potential to impact on a very large number of people in the...

In der zweiten Dekade des 21. Jahrhunderts explodierten in den dynamischen Verdichtungsräumen Deutschlands förmlich die Kosten des Wohnens. Ursächlich war eine Überlagerung demografischer und ökonomischer Effekte. Der vorgelagerte Bodenmarkt wirkte dabei wie ein Flaschenhals, der...

When the Treaty of Fez between the Makhzen (the Moroccan polity) and France was signed in 1912, Spain obtained its "Zone of influence" in northern Morocco. Like other European colonial powers, Spain resorted to using intermediaries to impose and strengthen its rule. In the city of Tetouan, the...

The Italian region Emilia-Romagna ranks first among the world's most important cooperative districts. Using a unique dataset covering all firms registered in the region, we investigate the performance of active firms in the period 2010-18. By focusing on employment, revenue and profits of...