While other parts of the new institutional economics (e. g. principal agent theory,transaction cost theory) have already been applied to co-operative researchwith some success, property rights theory has as yet been only rarelyused in this regard. At the same time, the traditional structure of...

The tasks as well as the types of co-operatives within an economy have continuously been discussed for nearly two hundred years. Since the days of Owen, the principles as well as the appearance of co-operatives have been heavily disputed. This became evident by the controversy between Huber,...

Der vorliegende Beitrag analysiert kurz die Struktur deutscher Genossenschaften aus dem Blickwinkel der Property-Rights-Theorie (vgl. Kramer 2002). Dabei zeigt sich, dass dieser im Bereich der Genossenschaftsforschung bis dato eher vernachlässigte Theorieansatz durchaus zur Verfolgung von...

In Germany exist a large number of co-operatives that are engaged in a broad variety of business activities. Their organisational structure is determined by co-operative law and to a lesser degree by statutes or by-laws. As has been shown for German rural co-operatives by applying property...

In Germany exist a large number of co-operatives that are engaged in a broad variety of business activities. Their organisational structure is determined by co-operative law and to a lesser degree by statutes or by-laws. As has been shown for German rural co-operatives by applying property...