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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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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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to evaluate the costs and benefits ensuing from cooperative selling in the aquaculture sector, compared to alternative …
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Council Regulation (EC) No 1.435/2003, of 22 July 2003, concerning the European Co-operative Statute (ECS), constitutes … governing mergers, depending on whether the ECS or the Spanish Cooperative Law is taken into consideration. …
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Globalization, industrialization and structural changes in traditional rural employment patterns have caused rural communities such as the Israeli Kibbutz to search for development strategies in order to survive. Self development constitutes one possible approach to community development. It...
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The aim of this article is to examine the Irish and Lithuanian credit union movements in terms of risk management and risk performance, and to discuss credit union risk regulation. Risk management in credit unions often closely relates to credit union development stages so that as credit unions...
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of a cooperative are ignorant of the members’ opinion, the whole organization could collapse. This study takes a people … the participation of the members in the management of their cooperative. Study data were obtained from a questionnaire … completed by 200 members of a Finnish dairy cooperative. The factors analyzed represent the degree to which the members are …
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