This article addresses three observations regarding the board of directors in agricultural cooperatives. First, many … scholars and practitioners worry about the competency of the member dominated board of directors in agricultural cooperatives …. Second, it is sometimes stated that cooperatives seem to behave like ordinary enterprises. Finally, it is argued that …

France harbours three large retailer cooperatives which, put together, account for more than a third of the national …

considering the global financial crisis as an exogenous shock. The descriptive statistics suggests a comparability of boards …

The law and popular opinion expect boards of directors will actively monitor their organisations. Further, public … opinion is that boards should have a positive impact on organisational performance. However, the processes of board monitoring … investigating the processual behaviours of boards. The work of four boards1 of micro and small-sized nonprofit organisations were …