Successful leadership is imperative for a cooperative to flourish. However, there is limited literature concerning leadership qualities in the context of cooperatives, and most particularly in cooperatives in the global south. This study applied the participatory Delphi research technique to the...

Co-operatives literature has ignored the leadership factor despite its essentiality for retaining egalitarianism and democracy amid success and growth, and despite the tendency of leaders who succeeded by democratic trust and consent management, to become conservative oligarchic autocrats....

Maintaining co-operative principles in large successful co-operatives requires creativity engendered by high-moral trusted innovative leaders who avoid capitalist practices. However, if such leaders are not replaced within 10-16 years, they usually enter conservative dysfunction phase, suppress...

Pt. 1. The change problem and its solution. Transforming organizations : why firms fail -- Successful change and the force that drives it -- pt. 2. The eight-stage process. Establishing a sense of urgency -- Creating the guiding coalition -- Developing the guiding coalition -- Developing a...