The governance of farmer cooperatives in China is addressed regarding democratic
decision‐making procedures, participation in decision making, member exit, and profit …

The Chinese government pays close attention to sustainable development and takes an
active approach to strengthening and standardizing such development. As the …

We consider the relative contributions of changing technology and institutions for economic
growth through the investigation of a natural experiment in history: the almost simultaneous …

This article traces the emergence of winemaking cooperatives in Catalonia, one of southern
Europe's main winegrowing regions. It analyses the stimuli that led to the creation of …

Economic theory tends to link the emergence of cooperatives with moments of economic
crisis, and to regard them as less efficient than investor-owned firms. This work aims to test …

This article examines the case of D enmark—a country which historically had next to no
domestic energy resources—for which new historical energy accounts are presented for the …

In present day Mexico, Chiapas is the state that produces the greatest amount of coffee, with
both the highest number of producers and the largest cultivated area. A significant part of …

In 2020, Denmark passed a new Climate Act. Labelled one of the world's most ambitious,
the law explicitly obliges the country to be a global frontrunner in the green transition …

Why did the establishment of cooperative creameries in late nineteenth-century Ireland fail
to halt the relative decline of her dairy industry compared with other emerging producers …

This article explores the role of culture in encouraging the diffusion of cooperation for the
production and marketing of agricultural products, an organizational innovation that can be …