cooperative banks by examining other variables that have never been used before. It also seeks to examine bank performance before … cost efficiency; and cooperative banks in general at the beginning of the crisis were less influenced by the economic …

), along with various forward contracts offered to cooperative members to manage the variability of milk revenues, have the … potential to improve cooperative‐, and ultimately member‐level risk‐return performance. Because most cooperatives have limited … access to equity capital, effective use of available risk management tools can increase cooperative value by increasing debt …

/methodology/approach This paper shows what followed from a decision of a researcher to do an ethnography of a co-working cooperative established … despite its failure in the form of a bankruptcy, the co-working cooperative succeeded in enabling “social innovation” in the …

in the north-west of England, a small food cooperative run by volunteers. Social capital comprises the bonds, bridges and … interactions between and within the three main stakeholder groups involved in the cooperative is presented. This model shows how …

lessons learned from the participatory approach to improve rural cooperative development in Shandan County are relevant to …