The empirical literature on farmer cooperatives is now fast emerging and develo** in the
areas of performance, ownership and governance, finance, and member attitude. We …

Since the establishment of one of the early co-operatives in Western Europe in the 1800s, co-
operatives in the Western world have developed exponentially and played essential roles in …

To pursue development goals, policymakers and scholars alike have proposed that actors in
rural areas may usefully engage in collective actions, eg by forming community groups …

Member heterogeneity is often seen as a disadvantage of cooperatives. Though, a
comprehensive understanding of member heterogeneity, its dimensions and impacts on …

The importance of cooperatives for European farmers has often been claimed but empirical
studies to support this claim are scarce. This special issue presents a number of articles on …

With liberalization in 1998, numerous firms have entered the German retail electricity market,
including newly formed consumer cooperatives. Based on Transaction Cost Economics, we …

Governance describes a firm´ s system of decision‐making, direction and control. Over the
last decades agricultural cooperatives in Europe have been pursuing innovations in internal …

We develop a classification of traditional versus restructured cooperative organizational
attributes based on an inductive approach. Using this classification and integrating concepts …

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This paper shows how cooperatives' changing organizational structures can be explained
by the Theory of Institutional Change. When a cooperative's decision makers receive …