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Showing 1 to 20 of 218 for “"Cooperatives"”.
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Kansas farmers' attitudes toward cooperatives
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Purchasing cooperatives : structures and significance
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1993.
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Directing rural cooperatives in uncertain environments
… perceptions of uncertainty by directors of rural cooperatives, sources of uncertainty, and organizational strategies for coping with uncertainty. Boards were viewed as informal boundary spanning units. The decision making and resource dependence perspectives were the source of most hypotheses. A …
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A locational analysis of plumbing cooperatives
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1994.
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The performance of accommodation cooperatives in Australia
… determine whether the Australian accommodation cooperatives have been successful in meeting the objectives of their constituent members. A questionnaire was sent out to a sample of accommodation cooperative members, and the results obtained were supplemented by information received via …
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Trade barriers to grain cooperatives in exporting
… to determine if there were any barriers to grain cooperatives in exporting. Barriers are obstacles associated with the structure of the market. Data compiled to determine if any barriers existed were a combination of a quantitative survey and interviews with cooperative executives. Thus the …
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Worker Cooperatives: Strategies and Tactics for Interstitial Transformation
The number of worker cooperatives in the United States has grown substantially in recent decades, as has a robust cooperative movement dedicated to advancing worker-ownership. Many of these individual cooperatives, as well as the movement that incubates and supports them, critique capitalist …
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Understanding Digital Inequality and the Role of Cooperatives
… of digital inequality and the role of cooperatives in relation to investor-owned firms. Chapter 1 provides a brief motivation for studying cooperatives and an overview of the dissertation. Chapter 2 provides a brief background on digital inequality, including various technologies and …
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Cost efficiency and capital structure in farms and cooperatives
… data. The second and third questions focus on cooperatives since farmers rely on efficient cooperative management to maximize their return on investment in the cooperative and their own farm profitability. How should cooperatives allocate earnings to farmers? To answer this question, a model is …
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Stakeholders’ Perceptions of Fraud in Indonesian BMT Islamic Cooperatives
… Baitul Maal wat Tamwil (known as BMT Islamic cooperatives; henceforth BMTs), are an important phenomenon in Indonesia due to their rapid growth (i.e. numbers, assets, members) and spread across the nation. BMTs are seen as organisations that fill a gap in the market by catering for …
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Performance determinants for emerging agricultural cooperatives in South Africa
… Africa has seen an increase in the number of cooperatives (co-ops) registered since 2005, following the new policy aimed at the promotion of cooperative enterprises. Newly registered co-ops received over R5.28 billion in direct financial support, comprising a combination of grants and loans …
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Worker owned cooperatives and the ecosystems that support them
… creation. Employee ownership, through worker cooperatives is one way to build wealth. But worker cooperatives are rare in the United States; this is because there is not a supportive cooperative ecosystem. The province of Quebec, Canada has developed a robust cooperative ecosystem, leading the …
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Health cooperatives: a model for consumerism in medical care.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. Thesis. 1974. B.S.
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Exploring the effect of entrepreneurial orientation on business performance of agriculture cooperatives: a case of solar milling plant cooperatives in Southern province of Zambia.
… donor agencies, the performance of agricultural cooperatives especially in Zambia’s Southern Province has remained suboptimal. With agriculture contributing only 2.74% to the country’s GDP and cooperatives accounting for 12% of agricultural GDP, there is a clear gap between potential and realized …
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Exploring the effect of entrepreneurial orientation on business performance of agriculture cooperatives: a case of solar milling plant cooperatives in Southern province of Zambia.
… donor agencies, the performance of agricultural cooperatives especially in Zambia’s Southern Province has remained suboptimal. With agriculture contributing only 2.74% to the country’s GDP and cooperatives accounting for 12% of agricultural GDP, there is a clear gap between potential and realized …
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The role of cooperatives in Chinese economic reconstruction since 1928
… The object of this paper is to place cooperatives in relation to the to the reconstruction as a whole, and to estimate the extent to which cooperatives are an effective instrument of economic reconstruction. As the Kuomintang or Nationalist Party has been the governing power in China …
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Agri-food cooperatives: performance and social capital as governance mechanism
Aunque las cooperativas desempeñan un papel fundamental en el sector agroalimentario, los investigadores han detectado que sufren limitaciones organizativas (por ejemplo, la presencia de derechos colectivos de propiedad y control). Sin embargo, algunas cooperativas sobreviven con éxito y compiten …
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Efficiency and financial sustainability of sugarcane Farmer Cooperatives in Eswatini
… sustainability of the 114 sugarcane Farmers Cooperatives (FCs) in The Kingdom of Eswatini from 2014 to 2017. The Stochastic Frontier Analysis technique, the Cobb-Douglas and the Translogarithm production functions were used to estimate technical efficiency scores. The results of the study …
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Effects of tourism-related cooperatives on community development in Appalachia
… case study analysis to examine three current cooperatives and their contributions to the community, using a Weberian lens of formal versus substantive rationality. Results indicated a tentative relationship between amount and type of contributions of the tourism-related cooperative …
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