Understanding the heterogeneity among agricultural cooperatives

Jos Bijman () and Markus Hanisch
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Jos Bijman: Wageningen University (The Netherlands)
Markus Hanisch: Humboldt University of Berlin (Germany)

No 2013, CIRIEC Working Papers from CIRIEC - Université de Liège

Abstract: This paper discusses the importance of acknowledging and understanding the heterogeneity among cooperatives. Many studies on agricultural cooperatives, particularly on the impact of membership, do not account for the large differences in organisational and functional characteristics across cooperatives. We identify and discuss five core differences that have implications for theoretical and empirical research. We propose a classification that can be used by scholars in their research on understanding the evolution, performance and impact of producer cooperatives, and that can be used by policy makers in better targeting their support policies.

Keywords: Cooperatives; agriculture; typology; transactions; governance; evolution; performance; impact (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D23 L2 Q13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-agr and nep-hme
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