 Investigating the Inclusive-Performance Tradeoff in Agricultural Cooperatives: Evidence from NepalScott Miller and Conner Mullally World Development, 2022, vol. 159, issue C Abstract: Is there a tradeoff between inclusive membership and market performance in agricultural cooperatives? Prior studies argue that inclusive membership practices damage cooperative performance by increasing internal transaction and coordination costs. Determining the extent of this tradeoff is essential to understanding the role that cooperatives play in alleviating poverty. Previous studies have largely overlooked the extent to which organizational activities are inclusive of existing members. We expand the definition of inclusive membership to account for extensive as well as intensive inclusion, where the former describes the diversity of a cooperative’s membership and the latter refers to including existing members in group activities. We examine the inclusive-performance tradeoff with respect to both dimensions of inclusion. Our results suggest that extensive inclusion is associated with lower market performance, while intensive inclusion is associated with higher market performance. This indicates that both extensive and intensive inclusion have a meaningful, but opposite, association with a cooperative’s ability to achieve market performance. Date: 2022 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:wdevel:v:159:y:2022:i:c:s0305750x22002078 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2022.106017 Access Statistics for this article World Development is currently edited by O. T. Coomes More articles in World Development from Elsevier |
Is your work missing from RePEc? Here is how to contribute.
Questions or problems? Check the EconPapers FAQ or send mail to .
EconPapers is hosted by the
School of Business at Örebro University.