Significant barriers to the adoption of the agricultural cooperative model of entrepreneurship: a literature review

AP Pliakoura, G Beligiannis… - International Journal of …, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose Literature contributions to agricultural cooperative (AC) entrepreneurship model
are fragmented and show some significant limitations. The purpose of this paper is to identify …

Farmers' assessments of their cooperatives in economic, social, and environmental terms: An investigation in Fujian, China

L Yu, J Nilsson - Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
This study is the first to empirically investigate whether farmers' assessment of their
cooperatives' environmental efforts is related to their satisfaction with the cooperatives, in …

[PDF][PDF] Adaptation strategies for the Greek agricultural cooperatives during the economic crisis

A Kontogeorgos, F Chatzitheodoridis… - Agricultural …, 2016 - academia.edu
Because of the Greek economic crisis, almost all businesses are facing difficult times with
severe consequences for employment and the whole economy. Responding to the …

What makes producers participate in marketing cooperatives? The Northern Greece case

A Batzios, A Kontogeorgos, F Chatzitheodoridis… - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Marketing cooperatives are gaining popularity in the supply chain management of fruits and
vegetables (F&V) due to consumers' increasing desire to purchase cooperative products as …

Social capital and the financing performance of farmer cooperatives in Fujian Province, China

L Yu, J Nilsson - Agribusiness, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Although social capital is commonly believed to affect cooperative financing, empirical
results are sparse. Using data from surveys of members of 60 cooperatives in Fujian …

The agricultural cooperative as an instrument for economic development: an approach from Spanish Investors' preferences through a choice experiment

ÁS Mirón-Sanguino, C Díaz-Caro - Agronomy, 2022 - mdpi.com
The cooperative is one of the most important forms of business in the agricultural sector, due
to its special characteristics for small farmers and livestock producers in order to gain access …

Women's Cooperatives in less favored and mountainous areas under economic instability

F Chatzitheodoridis, A Kontogeorgos… - Agricultural …, 2017 - ageconsearch.umn.edu
Rural development policies in the last twenty years reinforced the development of new,
alternative to agriculture, activities in the mountainous and less favored areas, such as agro …

Mapping the market segments for the consumers of Greek cooperative food products

O Tremma, A Kontogeorgos, P Karipidis… - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
The purpose of this study was to illustrate and understand how consumers of cooperative
food products could be segmented in the region of Western Greece. For this purpose, a …

[PDF][PDF] Factors affecting the participation of sugarcane and tobacco farmers in farmer groups, associations and cooperatives in Indonesia.

R Rokhani, D Fauziyah, A Supriono, Y Hariyati… - 2021 - researchgate.net
The revitalization of farmer organizations has become the central paradigm in agricultural
development. In Indonesia, increasing farmer participation in farmer groups, associations …