“…Aware of these limits and with the necessary interpretative cautions, interesting studies on financial and/or economic structure and performance of cooperatives -usually with the focus on specific sectors and geographical area -were performed by Kyriakopoulos et al (2004), Allen and Maghimbi (2009), Suchanek (2009), Krasachat and Chimkul (2009), Chalomklang (2010), Amadieu and Viviani (2010), Bahrs and Blanck, (2011), Bajo and Roelants (2011), Bronsema and Theuvsen (2011), Aggelopoulos et al (2011), Hong and Dong-Hyun (2012), Arimany et al (2014), Boone and Özcan (2014), Loubere and Xiaoquan (2015).…”