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Agricultural Cooperatives and Cooperative Law

2005
The paper analyses the advantages and weakpoints of cooperatives, especially in agriculture, as they are identified by the contemporary cooperative theory. The theoretical findings are connected with the comparative survey of recent developments of the cooperative law, where the draft new model law on agricultural cooperatives in USA, the Regulation No.
Avsec, Franci   +3 more
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Safety climate at agricultural cooperatives

Journal of Safety Research, 2020
This study identifies determinants of safety climate at agricultural cooperatives.An extensive survey was designed to build upon past research done in collaboration with DuPont (Risch et al., 2014). In 2014 and 2015, the survey was administered to 1930 employees at 14 different agricultural cooperatives with 154 locations.
Erik, Hanson, Michael, Boland
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Agricultural Cooperatives and Agricultural Economics

1946
Proceedings of the Western Farm Economics Association Ninteenth Annual Meeting, Gearhart, OR, June 26-28 ...
Miller, Raymond W., Miller, Raymond W.
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FINANCING OF GROWTH IN AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVES

1991
Sources and uses of funds in agricultural cooperatives are examined and compared to the aggregate of nonfinancial corporations for the period 1973-1987. Cooperatives are observed to finance nearly half their growth with equity. The equity financing proportion of cooperatives is statistically indistinguishable from the national average of nonfinancial ...
Lerman, Zvi   +3 more
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Cooperative–shareholder relations in agricultural cooperatives in Turkey

Journal of Asian Economics, 2005
Abstract The most important agricultural cooperative types in Turkey are Agricultural Credit Cooperatives (ACCs), Agricultural Sales Cooperatives (ASCs), and Agricultural Development Cooperatives (ADCs). Despite their apparent growth in number, agricultural cooperatives have made only a limited impact on economic, social, and industrial development ...
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The Future of Agricultural Cooperatives

Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2013
Cooperatives are of particular interest to economists because of their unique ownership structure and the incentives this structure creates. In addition to the so-called property rights problems (e.g., free-rider, horizon, and portfolio problems), the analysis of agricultural cooperatives has focused on issues of market power, agency, product quality,
Murray Fulton, Konstantinos Giannakas
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Governance in Agricultural Cooperatives

2019
Cooperatives are often thought to require open membership policies, use patronage-based financing, and employ decision-making based on unanimity. The objective is to measure whether large, as measured by dollar volume of assets and sales, cooperatives in the United States utilize practices which are embedded in cooperative principles.
Boland, Michael A., Boland, Michael A.
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