The Relationship Between Members' Trust and Participation in Governance of Cooperatives: The Role of Organizational Commitment

Valérie Barraud-Didier (), Marie-Christine Henninger () and Asâad El Akremi ()
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Valérie Barraud-Didier: Département d'économie sociale et sciences de gestion - ENSAT - École nationale supérieure agronomique de Toulouse - Toulouse INP - Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) - UT - Université de Toulouse
Marie-Christine Henninger: Dynamiques Rurales - UT2J - Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès - UT - Université de Toulouse - ENSAT - École nationale supérieure agronomique de Toulouse - Toulouse INP - Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) - UT - Université de Toulouse - ENSFEA - École Nationale Supérieure de Formation de l'Enseignement Agricole de Toulouse-Auzeville - Toulouse INP - Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) - UT - Université de Toulouse
Asâad El Akremi: CRM - Centre de Recherche en Management - UT Capitole - Université Toulouse Capitole - UT - Université de Toulouse - IAE - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises - Toulouse - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: This paper aims to explain the participative behavior of farmers-members of agricultural cooperatives in the governance of the latter. The study introduces two concepts from the organizational behavior literature: trust and organizational commitment. It tests a mediator effect of commitment in the relationship between the trust a farmer has in the cooperative and his/her participa-tive behavior in its governance. Based on a sample of 259 members of French agricultural cooperatives, results showed that affective commitment had a mediating role in the relationship be-tween trust and participation in the governance of cooperatives, notwithstanding the cognitive or affective nature of trust.

Keywords: cooperative members; organizational commitment; organizational commitment" (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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Published in International Food and Agribusiness Management Review, 2012, 15 (1), pp.1-24

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