Social capital is defined as the shared knowledge, trust, and culture, embodied in the structural forms of networks and other stable inter-agent relationships. Social capital has been shown to be more difficult to build than economic capital, and to have greater beneficial effects for community...

ABSTRACT Social capital is defined as the shared knowledge, trust, and culture, embodied in the structural forms of networks and other stable inter-agent relationships. Social capital has been shown to be more difficult to build than economic capital, and to have greater beneficial effects for...

This paper delimits and characterizes the cooperative sector in Parana economy and breaks down the agricultural sectors and the components of food processing industries of input-output tables, built for State for the years of 1980 and 1985, in Cooperative and non-Cooperative sectors. The goal is...

The present work aimed at the analysis of the influences of the sucession in board of directors in the continuity of the strategies of an agricultural cooperative. It is a quantitative research work, particularly, a study case in which the data were collected and analyzed on a documents and...

The aim of this work was to assess the milking process in an agricultural cooperative in Lavras, Minas Gerais state. The study was done between August and November/2004, employing a qualitative research methodology that involved the researchers and the cooperative’s employees. Process...

ILO pub. Article describing the institutional framework, administrative aspects and services of an established rural worker organization in the Philippines - covers financing support, provision of legal aid, workers education, agricultural cooperative activities, membership recruitment, control...

ILO pub. Article describing the cooperative education training programme carried out by the agricultural cooperative movement in Greece - examines the present situation, relates it to the educational system and evaluates training needs.

By employing the Malmquist productivity index, Data Envelope Analysis (DEA) and super-efficiency DEA, this study attempts to analyze the total factor productivity change, find out the optimal size of business and some policy implications are suggested in order to improve efficiency of...

The aim of this paper is to verify, whether business entities associated in the producer groups were more successful than the non-associated ones in the period 2009 – 2012. The results have shown that there are differences between average values of economic indicators of producer groups’...