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Optimizing Decision Making Capacity: Lessons from Empirical Study of Selected Successful and Collapsed major Cooperatives in India
Vrajlal, Sapovadia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
“Cooperatives in India has failed but Cooperatives must succeed”, as quoted by the Agriculture Credit Review Committee … Cooperatives in India have performed well while few could not. Why? The reason is right or wrong decisions by managers and … successful or failure direction, monitoring, controlling, reviewing decisions by directors and shareholders. Cooperatives are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260212
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Challenges for smallholder market access: a review of literature on institutional arrangements in collective marketing
Ton, Giel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Purpose of the review: This review presents recent research on collective action in agricultural markets, focusing on the institutional settings that increase market access for smallholder farmers. It focuses attention on challenging research areas that try to understand and resolve the inherent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325668
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Cultural persistence as behavior towards risk: evidence from the North Carolina Cherokees, 1850-1880
Gregg, Matthew T. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
the function of farming cooperatives to test whether this arrangement sprung up as a form of insurance against the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009328136
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Inside the black box: compensation structures of efficient Yugoslavian firms
Klinedinst, Mark - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1991
The main purpose of the research discussed in this paper has been to try to understand the main determinants of labor productivity within a firm from the perspective of the worker through a model and econometric application. Understanding why workers do the best they can or "just make time" is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009647315
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Cooperatives and Area Yield Insurance:A Theoretical Analysis
Pincheira, Pablo; Zeuli, Kimberly - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The purpose of this paper is to theoretically investigate the potential benefits that arise from a cooperative selling a government subsidized area-yield contract (i.e., the Group Risk Plan). The indeminities in area-yield contracts are triggered by a geographically determined yield (e.g., a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836118
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Performance of Primary Cooperatives in India: An Empirical Analysis
Misra, Biswa Swarup - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Cooperatives as an institution in India are more than a century old. With more than a lakh grass root level … cooperatives, their presence is formidable. Notwithstanding, impressive gains made by cooperatives in terms of their rural outreach … to enquire into the factors which impact financial health of cooperatives reflected through their recovery performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543805
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The Role of Cooperative Societies in Economic Development
Ahmad Bello, Dogarawa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
which cooperatives can act as agents towards sustainable community development. The paper is a descriptive survey, which … paper posits that for over 160 years now cooperatives have been an effective way for people to exert control over their … development. The paper concludes that to be effective and successful, cooperatives must continuously achieve two inter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008574253
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Rural Credit in India in Peril
Bose, Sukanya - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
This review article uses the contributions in this important book “Financial Liberalization and Rural Credit in India” to look at the policies surrounding rural credit in India, its links with the macro-context and the situation on the ground in the post-reform period.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008804694
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Cooperative comebacks: resilience in the face of the Hurricane Katrina Catastrophe (New Orleans and Southern Mississippi, May 2005–May 2006)
Klinedinst, Mark - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Millions of lives were dramatically changed by Hurricane Katrina, the worst natural disaster in U.S. history. Numerous businesses were wiped out. People lost their homes, their livelihoods, their lives. Nearly two years after Katrina, some sectors of the aff ected region have proved to be more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008833299
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A Economia das Firmas Cooperadas e a Análise Antitruste
Esteves, Luiz A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
(including cooperatives and professional associations), mainly in respect to their goals. Conventional capitalist firms aim to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112209