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This paper examines the profitability of a balanced sample of 58 North Dakota farm supply and grain marketing cooperatives over the period 2003– 2007. Our findings reveal that increased liquidity tended to allow farm supply cooperatives to operate more efficiently, but reduced the...
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cooperatives. Based on the growing literature on cooperative organizational models, it is expected that the new organizational … structures. The observations indicate that more liberalized and open markets require cooperative organizational models with more …
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The cooperative sector in Belgium has always been very much linked to other social movements. In the 1990s the backbone … of the sector, namely the cooperative banks, have undergone major transformations. In this article, the two most … important cooperative financial holdings that were created to replace the stand-alone cooperative banks are looked at: the Cera …
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This article uses the farm problem theory as the framework for a comparative analysis of cooperative, market and …
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Vertical coordination in agri-food chains is a significant and increasing phenomenon in Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC). It has been observed that this development prefers large scale production. However, the agricultural sector is still a mixture of small scale and large scale...
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to evaluate the costs and benefits ensuing from cooperative selling in the aquaculture sector, compared to alternative …
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, and globalization. It is a more modest work about the neoclassical economics discourse of cooperative finance, with …
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The Israeli Moshav cooperative was designed as a group of homogeneous family farms, all equal in size and resources … has led to destabilization of the social and economic viability of the cooperative, and was one of the reasons for the …
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With the break-down of the socialist regime in East Germany in 1989/90 the collective farms had to be transformed or to be dissolved. At that time, it had been anticipated by (mostly West German) politicians and agricultural economists alike that collective farms would soon wither away and be...
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-differentiated markets. Product quality in all of its dimensions is critical in modern food markets, but various traditional cooperative …
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