The aim of this paper is to measure the efficiency of insurance companies in Saudi Arabia using data envelopment analysis (DEA), to analyse the effectiveness of underwriting processes primarily inputs and outputs are determined. Moreover, this study aims at comparing the efficiency of Takaful...

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...

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...

Purpose This study aims to validate a potential synergistic venture between cash waqf (Islamic endowment) institutions (CWIs) and financial cooperatives (FCs) in the provision of affordable Islamic home financing (IHF) in Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach The study adopted semi-structured...

Since the 1990s, producers of farm commodities have been attempting to enter value-added agri-food sectors by means of joint ownership of hybrid cooperatives. New generation cooperatives, characterized by substantial supply and equity requirements, inspired much farm producer optimism before...

Despite popular misconceptions, cooperatives present a very successful organizational form worldwide. A recent study found that in the U.S., for example, 134 agricultural cooperatives celebrated their 100th anniversary in 2014. This observation on cooperative longevity is not matched by a...

Introduction: Korea's consumer co-operatives / Seungkwon Jang -- Co-operative governance practice / Ah Young Kim, Young-Jeong Cho and Seungkwon Jang -- Gender perspectives for consumer co-operatives / Ah Young Kim and Seungkwon Jang -- Price stability and asymmetric price transmission for...

Introduction / Bruno Roelants and Hyungsik Eum -- Work and cooperatives : a century of ILO interaction with the cooperative movement / Claudia Sanchez Bajo -- Cooperatives and the future of work / Jürgen Schwettmann -- Cooperatives and fundamental principles and rights at work : natural...

Foreword / by Christian A. Klöckner -- Citizens and renewable energy : determinants of civic engagement -- Wind energy acceptability, what, how and when : all the variables at stake -- Testing the theory : methods and data collection -- The first community-owned co-operative in the UK : lessons...

"This volume shines a light on Sustainable Community Movement Organisations (SCMOs), an emergent wave of non-hierarchical, community-based socio-economic movements, with alternative forms of consumption and production very much at their core. Extending beyond traditional ideas of cooperatives...