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ARE SOUTH AFRICAN CO-OPERATIVES CREATING VALUE

Hall, John H.; Geyser, J.M. - Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and … - 2003

This article examines the use of Economic Value Added (EVA) as a performance measure that South African wine co-operatives can use to determine whether value has been created for members. A detailed explanation of EVA is given, and the components of EVA are calculated. The EVA's of a number of...

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The Emergence of Non-Traditional Cooperative Structures: Public and Private Policy Issues

Chaddad, Fabio Ribas; Cook, Michael L. - Department of Agricultural Economics, Kansas State … - 2003

This paper examines new agricultural cooperative organizational models from an ownership rights perspective. We argue that new cooperative organizational models differ in the way ownership rights are assigned to the economic agents tied contractually to the firm � members, patrons, and...

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Factors Affecting the Competitiveness of the Greek Wine Enterprises and Cooperatives

Konstantinidis, Christos; Sergaki, Panagiota; Mattas, … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2008

The present paper investigates the effect of certain economic factors on the competitiveness of Greek Wine Enterprises and Unions of Agricultural Cooperatives (UACs). Data on 41 wineries and 10 UACs of Greece was collected for a period of three years (2004-2006). Financial analysis results were...

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Agricultural cooperatives II: Can they facilitate access of small-scale farmers in South Africa to input and product markets?

Ortmann, Gerald F.; King, Robert P. - In: Agrekon 46 (2007) 2

The objective of this research is to investigate whether agricultural cooperatives can facilitate smallholder farmer access to input and product markets. Farmers in two case study communal areas of KwaZulu-Natal face high transaction costs as reflected primarily in their low levels of education...

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Agricultural Cooperatives and Unions of Cooperatives in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Opportunities for Improvement

Hanson, James C.; Matavulj, Miodrag; Manzuk, Gregory; … - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2007

Given the breakup of Yugoslavia and the ensuing war, there has been massive changes in the agricultural structure in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In particular, the remade cooperatives and the unions of cooperatives that are supposed to serve them are struggling. This paper examines the needs of the...

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Measuring Retail Service Quality in Farm Supply Cooperatives

Wilson, Norbert L.W.; Hall, Thomas; Fields, Deacue - In: International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 14 (2011) 1

Based on the Retail Service Quality Scale (RSQS), we develop a tool for mangers of local farm cooperative stores to assess which customer service groups matter to their customers. Principal component analysis (PCA) reveals three customer groups. The results of the multinomial logit model showed...

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Separação Entre Propriedade e Decisão de Gestão nas Cooperativas Agropecuárias Brasileiras

Costa, Davi Rogério de Moura; Chaddad, Fabio Ribas; … - In: Brazilian Journal of Rural Economy and Sociology (RESR) 50 (2012) 3

, adopt governance models that promote the separation of ownership and decision rights. However, in Brazil, despite the lack … ofquantitative studies that measure governance separation, anecdotal evidence suggests that ownership and decisions rights are … degree of de jure and de facto separation of ownership and decision control, providing new evidences on the governance models …

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AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVES – EXAMPLES OF GOOD PRACTISE IN THE WORLD AND SERBIA

Ševarlić, Miladin M.; Nikolić, Marija M. - Agroekonomski Odsek, Poljoprivredni Fakultet - 2013

Agricultural cooperatives play an important role in the development of the agriculture and rural areas, especially in developing countries and in the time of economic crises – like the current started in 2008. In order to raise global awareness of the importance of agricultural cooperatives,...

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THE LESSONS FROM THE DEVELOPMENT AND PROBLEMS OF PRODUCTION COOPERATIVE IN BULGARIAN AGRICULTURE

Doitchinova, Julia M.; Kanchev, Ivan; Miteva, Albena - Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften … - 2007

In the paper are depicted the lessons and the problems of functioning and restructuring of cooperative structures in agricultural sector in Bulgaria during the pre-accession period (1995- 2006). The unsolved institutional and legislative problems of these structures are shown in details. The...

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Incentives to Efficient Investment Decisions in Agricultural Cooperatives

Russo, Carlo; Sabbatini, Massimo - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2005

Recent studies have questioned the competitiveness of agricultural cooperatives in an industrialized food system, based on empirical results and economic theory. New organizational institutions have been proposed to overcome the cooperative main weaknesses (the so called new generation...

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