Cooperative Conversion and Restructuring in Theory and Practice

Patrick Mooney and Thomas W. Gray

No 280024, Research Reports from United States Department of Agriculture, Rural Development

Abstract: This report is intended to develop the outlines of a sociological theory of cooperatives. This objective is accomplished by: 1) critiquing neoclassical economic analyses of cooperative conversions, (restructuring, acquisition, or sale of agricultural cooperatives such that an investment-oriented firm is created in its place), 2) examining historical data on cooperative restructuring generally and conversions as a subset of this data and 3) developing a theoretical approach to a sociology of cooperatives, that is inductive and retains cooperative tensions (e.g. democracy versus economy, local versus global).

Keywords: Agricultural and Food Policy; Risk and Uncertainty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27
Date: 2002-01
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (10)

Downloads: (external link)
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/280024/files/RR185.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:urdbrr:280024

DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.280024

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Research Reports from United States Department of Agriculture, Rural Development Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by AgEcon Search ().