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  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,420 Views
19 Pages

28 June 2024

With the advancement of farmer professional cooperatives in China, the prevalence of the “empty shell” phenomenon has posed a significant challenge to the health and sustainability of these cooperatives. Utilizing data from 1570 such coop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,353 Views
14 Pages

9 November 2021

Similar to the number of agricultural cooperatives in the European Union, the number of German wine cooperatives is decreasing. The main purpose of the wine cooperatives is to support the member businesses with the highest possible payouts for their...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
8,609 Views
15 Pages

Sustainability Reporting in Cooperatives

  • Gamze Yakar Pritchard and
  • Kıymet Tunca Çalıyurt

11 June 2021

The aim of the present study is to examine the sustainability reports of cooperatives, which may play an important role in achieving the sustainable development goals and help to identify which economic, environmental, and social sustainability indic...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
42 Citations
6,299 Views
8 Pages

Cooperative Longevity: Why Are So Many Cooperatives So Successful?

  • Constantine Iliopoulos and
  • Vladislav Valentinov

27 September 2018

Despite popular misconceptions, cooperatives present a very successful organizational form worldwide. A recent study found that in the U.S., for example, 134 agricultural cooperatives celebrated their 100th anniversary in 2014. This observation on co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,109 Views
14 Pages

14 February 2023

The Moroccan agricultural cooperative sector is a key player in self-employment and income generation through territorial anchoring. The government’s “MOURAFAKA” program offers support for newly created cooperatives, including strat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,489 Views
15 Pages

Agricultural Cooperatives: Roadblocks to Achieving Sustainability

  • Myrto Paraschou,
  • Panagiota Sergaki,
  • Nikos Kalogeras,
  • Stefanos A. Nastis and
  • Christos Staboulis

5 September 2025

Agricultural cooperatives are essential in mitigating climate change and food insecurity through the promotion of sustainable agricultural practices and the conservation of biodiversity. However, weaknesses in governance, economic restrictions, marke...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,040 Views
15 Pages

2 March 2023

In the Republic of Benin, the last decade has witnessed initiatives that resulted in a boom in agricultural cooperatives. However, many research outcomes indicated agricultural cooperatives’ poor performances and lack of sustainability. To unde...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,954 Views
20 Pages

Social Aspects of Establishing Energy Cooperatives

  • Justyna Orłowska,
  • Małgorzata Suchacka,
  • Łukasz Trembaczowski and
  • Robert Ulewicz

15 November 2024

The aim of this research was to investigate the social conditions of the implementation of energy cooperatives in Poland as a demand-side policy tool to reduce carbon emissions. Qualitative empirical research was conducted, including interviews with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,467 Views
15 Pages

Evaluating Public Policy Support for Agricultural Cooperatives

  • Erika Ribašauskienė,
  • Diana Šumylė,
  • Artiom Volkov,
  • Tomas Baležentis,
  • Dalia Streimikiene and
  • Mangirdas Morkunas

10 July 2019

Creation of a sustainable agricultural sector involves boosting the cooperation activities as these contribute to the societal and economic development of the farms, farmers and rural societies. This paper contributes to the literature on the analysi...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,526 Views
6 Pages

Agricultural cooperatives have an important role in supporting agricultural development and improving the well-being of their members. They provide farmers with financial and social security, as well as fostering an environment that is supportive of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,371 Views
14 Pages

Economic Conditions for the Development of Energy Cooperatives in Poland

  • Daria Kostecka-Jurczyk,
  • Katarzyna Marak and
  • Mirosław Struś

19 September 2022

One of the important areas of the energy transformation is the citizens involvement in the energy production process. This is a prerequisite for maintaining the security of supply and price stabilization. In order for all citizens to have equal oppor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,066 Views
30 Pages

13 March 2024

Sustainable agricultural development relies significantly on the high-quality progression of farmers’ cooperatives. While growing in number, farmers’ cooperatives are still facing the dilemma of improving the quality of their development....

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
9,322 Views
17 Pages

Circular Economy and Cooperatives—An Exploratory Survey

  • Rafael Ziegler,
  • Cynthia Poirier,
  • Marie Lacasse and
  • Evan Murray

31 January 2023

Global sustainability assessments call for a rethinking of prevailing systems of production and consumption. We focus on the circular economy as an alternative system, and the role of cooperatives as transformative actors for sustainability. While co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
11,002 Views
24 Pages

18 October 2020

Many international aid agencies have been trying to utilize cooperatives as a strategic means for poverty reduction and rural community development in developing countries due to their characteristics, operational efficiency, and effectiveness. Howev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
9,961 Views
15 Pages

The Role of Cooperatives in Brazilian Agricultural Production

  • Mateus de Carvalho Reis Neves,
  • Felipe de Figueiredo Silva,
  • Carlos Otávio de Freitas and
  • Marcelo José Braga

29 September 2021

Much of the established literature on agricultural cooperatives describes their myriad contributions to farmers’ economic performance. In Brazil, one of the world’s leading agricultural exporters, there were more than 1500 agricultural cooperatives w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,457 Views
21 Pages

As the main body that unites farmers internally and connects with markets externally, professional farmer cooperatives are playing an increasingly important role around the world. In order to investigate the significant factors influencing this subje...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
10,981 Views
20 Pages

The Building as a Home: Housing Cooperatives in Barcelona

  • Raül Avilla-Royo,
  • Sam Jacoby and
  • Ibon Bilbao

The recent growth of cooperative housing in Spain questions existing design standards and regulations as well as cultural norms of ownership, management and current housing typologies. This paper analyzes the design opportunities and challenges emerg...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,650 Views
15 Pages

24 April 2019

For the rural districts of China to get an economically and socially sustainable development, the strengthening of agricultural cooperatives is essential. This study aims at presenting a model about how social capital within the cooperatives can be c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
594 Views
30 Pages

31 December 2025

The aim of this article is to determine the extent to which (directly or indirectly) the papal teachings apply to cooperatives as tools for solving social, economic and environmental problems, which were defined by Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,612 Views
15 Pages

Variation in Radon Concentration Between Apartments in Housing Cooperatives

  • Tuukka Turtiainen,
  • Volmar Kaipainen,
  • Katja Kojo,
  • Marjo Perälä,
  • Olli Holmgren and
  • Päivi Kurttio

22 January 2025

Housing cooperatives are a common form of housing in Nordic countries, being tasked with responsibilities such as maintenance, renovation, and, when needed, radon mitigation. This study analyzed the radon level variation in nearly 16,000 apartments a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,652 Views
20 Pages

Business Cycle, SSE Policy, and Cooperatives: The Case of Ecuador

  • Inmaculada Buendía-Martínez,
  • Agustín Álvarez-Herranz and
  • Mercedes Moreira Menéndez

7 July 2020

Over the last few decades, the social and solidarity economy (SSE) has undergone complex changes, from being undervalued to being institutionalized as a key sector in the economy. Within this context of change, Ecuador is a remarkable example of a co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
8,711 Views
17 Pages

Cooperatives and the Use of Artificial Intelligence: A Critical View

  • Maria Elisabete Ramos,
  • Ana Azevedo,
  • Deolinda Meira and
  • Mariana Curado Malta

25 December 2022

Digital Transformation (DT) has become an important issue for organisations. It is proven that DT fuels Digital Innovation in organisations. It is well-known that technologies and practices such as distributed ledger technologies, open source, analyt...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,769 Views
22 Pages

31 December 2024

This paper analyzes the possibility of creating worker cooperatives in which members are paid not through wages but through dividends calculated on the organization’s residual income, as stipulated by the economic theory of the labor-managed fi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,619 Views
20 Pages

24 December 2024

Social cooperatives, which are an important pillar of the solidarity economy, have become increasingly popular and common in Hungary over the past 10 years, especially in disadvantaged settlements, where the administrative burden of public employment...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,158 Views
15 Pages

Entrepreneurship Ecosystem of Cooperatives in Mexico City

  • Denise Díaz de León,
  • Igor Rivera and
  • Edgar Rogelio Álvarez

18 July 2024

This study enhances our understanding of entrepreneurial ecosystems in Mexico City, emphasizing their crucial roles in fostering cooperative activity within specific contexts. It delves into the intricate interplay of ecosystem elements and their int...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,564 Views
24 Pages

Governance in Estonian Agricultural Cooperatives: Structures and Processes

  • Constantine Iliopoulos,
  • Rando Värnik,
  • Taavi Kiisk,
  • George Varthalamis and
  • Liis Sinnott

30 November 2022

Little is known about the board structures and processes adopted by agricultural cooperatives, particularly in Eastern European countries. We address this substantial knowledge gap by focusing on Estonian agricultural cooperatives. Using survey resul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,448 Views
27 Pages

3 November 2023

Cooperatives address societal challenges embracing values beyond mere profit-oriented production. Considering the ongoing shift to achieve efficient use of resources and increased circularity, cooperatives should be better equipped to incorporate cir...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,585 Views
32 Pages

Are Cooperatives an Employment Option? A Job Preference Study of Millennial University Students

  • Inmaculada Buendía-Martínez,
  • Carolina Hidalgo-López and
  • Eric Brat

3 September 2020

Millennials represent the most important group among the working age population. Destined to be the leaders of the future, their professional and personal profiles differ considerably from previous generations. Despite being considered as the most su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
11,194 Views
23 Pages

Leadership Style and Gender: A Study of Spanish Cooperatives

  • Inocencia María Martinez-Leon,
  • Isabel Olmedo-Cifuentes,
  • MCarmen Martínez-Victoria and
  • Narciso Arcas-Lario

23 June 2020

The growing global need for social cohesion and sustainable development gives visibility to cooperatives because their principles help to achieve these objectives and the adoption of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Among them, gender equality p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
890 Views
17 Pages

28 February 2025

This paper aims to include the human capital elements of agricultural managers in the decision-making process of farmland quality protection behavior in farmers’ cooperatives in an effort to discuss and explore the relationship between hiring a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
6,192 Views
20 Pages

16 May 2021

In Europe, cooperatives have a long tradition and are widespread in the agricultural sector. Cooperatives in the wine sector of some EU countries even surpass a market share of more than 50%. In Germany, the first wine cooperative was established in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,099 Views
22 Pages

Exporting and Firms’ Performance—What about Cooperatives? Evidence from Spain

  • Mercè Sala-Ríos,
  • Mariona Farré-Perdiguer and
  • Teresa Torres-Solé

12 October 2020

This paper examines how exporting cooperatives evolve and differ from those that are focused on the domestic market. We use a Spanish firm-level panel data set spanning 26 years (1991–2016). We work with a wide set of variables that reflect coo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,587 Views
28 Pages

6 March 2025

Farmer professional cooperatives are essential in promoting China’s rural revitalization. However, the widespread occurrence of “empty shell” cooperatives, which are characterized by operational stagnation and human resource depleti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
83 Citations
19,720 Views
18 Pages

8 January 2021

How cooperatives generate and absorb social capital has attracted a great deal of attention due to the fact that they are collective organizations owned and democratically managed by their members, and, accordingly, are argued to be closely linked to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,374 Views
16 Pages

26 September 2019

A limited inquiry into cooperative governance and performance suggests that best practices from corporate governance literature may not apply uniformly to cooperatives. The rarely addressed issue of endogeneity limits confidence in recommendations fo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
7,752 Views
22 Pages

20 April 2018

All over the globe, cooperatives are plagued by pervasive member heterogeneity problems that are induced by the radical and dynamic changes in the business environment. Most current solutions to these problems emphasize strengthening member loyalty a...

  • Review
  • Open Access
25 Citations
14,555 Views
21 Pages

In the last decade, agricultural cooperatives have become increasingly popular in the food industry. This paper aims to shed light on the extensive literature on agricultural cooperatives. Design/Methodology/Approach: In conducting this review, we ap...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
4,006 Views
20 Pages

The Effectiveness of Energy Cooperatives Operating on the Capacity Market

  • Jakub Jasiński,
  • Mariusz Kozakiewicz and
  • Maciej Sołtysik

31 May 2021

The European Green Deal aims to make Europe the world’s first climate-neutral continent by 2050 by shifting to a clean circular economy, combating biodiversity loss and reducing pollution levels. In Poland, whose economy invariably remains one of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,226 Views
23 Pages

How Do Cooperatives Alleviate Poverty of Farmers? Evidence from Rural China

  • Yun Shen,
  • Jinmin Wang,
  • Luyao Wang,
  • Bin Wu,
  • Xuelan Ye,
  • Yang Han,
  • Rui Wang and
  • Abbas Ali Chandio

19 October 2022

Farmers’ cooperatives play an important role in enabling small farmers to integrate into modern agriculture. Based on the survey data of 7200 farmers in four provinces of China, this paper uses the multi-dimensional poverty measurement method a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,592 Views
11 Pages

6 July 2022

Individual aquaculture farmers in developing countries play an important role in ensuring food security. This study uses survey data from aquaculture households in Rongcheng and Xiangshan cities in China to explore the impact of cooperative participa...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,859 Views
4 Pages

In the European agri-food sector, operators with substantial bargaining power often engage in unfair trading practices (UTPs). Our paper aims to empirically examine the occurrence of UTPs and their influence on the performance of cooperatives. To ful...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,419 Views
27 Pages

Does Gender Diversity Affect Performance in Agri-Food Cooperatives? A Moderated Model

  • Elena Meliá-Martí,
  • Guillermina Tormo-Carbó and
  • Juan Francisco Juliá-Igual

14 August 2020

Existing research about the relationship between gender diversity and performance in cooperatives is not conclusive. In view of this reality, this paper aims firstly to analyse the effectiveness of gender diversity and equality management systems (GD...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,881 Views
17 Pages

9 November 2020

Social responsibility is a natural obligation of cooperatives, and fulfilling social responsibility is of great meaning to the sustainable development of cooperatives and society. This article constructs a “life cycle-cooperative social respons...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,238 Views
20 Pages

12 October 2021

Farming cooperatives are organisations fundamentally based on social capital. However, the neoliberal and globalisation turn in the food system have led to the economisation of agricultural cooperatives as their main objective and criteria for evalua...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,623 Views
15 Pages

What Makes Producers Participate in Marketing Cooperatives? The Northern Greece Case

  • Aristotelis Batzios,
  • Achilleas Kontogeorgos,
  • Fotios Chatzitheodoridis and
  • Panagiota Sergaki

4 February 2021

Marketing cooperatives are gaining popularity in the supply chain management of fruits and vegetables (F&V) due to consumers’ increasing desire to purchase cooperative products as well as producers’ willingness to reinforce their bargaining power...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,424 Views
27 Pages

7 March 2023

Cooperatives, which have a dual mission that includes both business and social goals, are of particular interest for the study of corporate social responsibility (CSR). The aim of this study was to examine how cooperative directors influence the CSR...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,712 Views
17 Pages

The Potential for the Use of Hydrogen Storage in Energy Cooperatives

  • Maciej Sołtysik,
  • Mariusz Kozakiewicz and
  • Jakub Jasiński

25 October 2024

According to the European Hydrogen Strategy, hydrogen will solve many of the problems with energy storage for balancing variable renewable energy sources (RES) supply and demand. At the same time, we can see increasing popularity of the so-called ene...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,038 Views
26 Pages

Energy Cooperatives as an Instrument for Stimulating Distributed Renewable Energy in Poland

  • Katarzyna Brodzińska,
  • Małgorzata Błażejowska,
  • Zbigniew Brodziński,
  • Irena Łącka and
  • Alicja Stolarska

11 February 2025

In Poland, the development of renewable energy primarily focuses on solar energy, especially through household prosumer installations. One emerging solution for promoting distributed renewable energy is energy cooperatives. The main aim of the resear...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,335 Views
19 Pages

31 October 2020

This study comprises a qualitative analysis of the governance structures within the two largest agricultural cooperatives in Sweden, both of which have large and heterogeneous memberships, as well as sizeable and complex business operations. Intervie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,132 Views
25 Pages

How to Transition from Cooperations to Cooperatives: A Case Study of the Factors Impacting the Organization of Urban Gardeners in Benin

  • Donald M. Houessou,
  • Ben G. J. S. Sonneveld,
  • Augustin K. N. Aoudji,
  • Frejus S. Thoto,
  • Smith A. R. Dossou,
  • Denyse J. R. M. Snelder,
  • Anselme A. Adegbidi and
  • Tjard De Cock Buning

21 August 2019

Urban gardening offers a viable option to improve diet diversity for the urban poor. Yet, its success rate is particularly dependent on the managerial capacities of urban gardeners to coordinate and organize collective actions for the successful expl...

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