This paper presents the principles of cooperation and briefly describes the history and
development of agricultural cooperatives in developed and less-developed countries, with …

The performance of agricultural cooperatives depends on their business objectives, which
are defined in different ways in the literature. We review the theoretical literature on the …

We build a theoretical model to study a market structure with a marketing cooperative and
direct selling, in which many farmers are members of an agricultural marketing cooperative …

This report surveys the recent literature on producer organizations with a specific focus on
factors affecting their establishment and their impact on farmers' market performance and …

ABSTRACT A new organizational form, the new generation cooperative (NGC), emerged in
the United States during the 1990s as farm producers came together to collectively add …

In many European countries, farmers are a member of a processing or marketing co-
operative, and most of these farmers deliver their products to that co-operative. However, an …

The relationship between organization size and performance is widely discussed in relation
to companies, yet related discussion of farmer cooperatives is limited. This study maps the …

The public participation in the energy turnaround resulted in the foundation of many energy
co-operatives (ECs) which are predominantly active in photovoltaics. Commonly, the …

Small-scale (communal) farmers in South Africa have limited access to factors of production,
credit and information, and markets are often constrained by inadequate property rights and …

The theory of the firm contained in most textbooks is inadequate for understanding the
economic behavior of cooperatives because some assertions about firm behavior, such as …