Member Commitment in Co-operatives: The Utilitarian Approach

Jussila, Iiro; Goel, Sanjay; Tuominen, Heidi

doi:10.5430/bmr.v1n3p9

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“…However, within collective-action institutions the commitment of members varies. Commitment generally captures the extent to which members choose to maintain their membership (Iiro Jussila, Sanjay Goel, and Heidi Tuominen 2012).…”

Section: What Influences Women's Intensity Of Participation Within Comentioning

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What Determines Women's Participation in Collective Action? Evidence from a Western Ugandan Coffee Cooperative

Selhausen

2015

Feminist Economics

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Women smallholders face greater constraints than men in accessing capital and commodity markets in Sub-Saharan Africa. Collective action has been promoted to remedy those disadvantages. Using survey data of 421 women members and 210 nonmembers of a coffee producer cooperative in Western Uganda, this study investigates the determinants of women's participation in cooperatives and women's intensity of participation. The results highlight the importance of access to and control over land for women to join the cooperative in the first place. Participation intensity is measured through women's participation in collective coffee marketing and share capital contributions. It is found that duration of membership, access to extension services, more equal intrahousehold power relations, and joint land ownership positively influence women's ability to commit to collective action. These findings demonstrate the embeddedness of collective action in gender relations and the positive value of women's active participation for agricultural-marketing cooperatives.

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Section: What Influences Women's Intensity Of Participation Within Comentioning

confidence: 99%

What Determines Women's Participation in Collective Action? Evidence from a Western Ugandan Coffee Cooperative

Selhausen

2015

Feminist Economics

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“…This paper serves future research and practice by bringing together the fragmented pieces of knowledge like previous research has brought together the fragmented pieces of knowledge on utilitarian (Jussila, Goel, & Tuominen, 2012) and affective member commitment (Jussila, Byrne, & Tuominen, 2012). These works together form a relatively comprehensive picture of what is currently known about member commitment in co-operatives.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 95%

“…In this context members are likely to judge that staying is the right thing to do (e.g., Byrne & McCarthy, 2005;Fulton, 1999). In other words, the economic benefits provided by the co-operative not only create utilitarian commitment amongst the members (Jussila, Goel, & Tuominen, 2012), but also the sense of obligation (towards the co-operative society) operating via specific reciprocity norms (cf. Enjolras, 2009).…”

Section: Recognized Realization Of Co-operative Values and Principlesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Member commitment has attracted notable scholarly attention in the study of co-operatives (e.g., Jussila, Goel, & Tuominen, 2012;Jussila, Byrne, & Tuominen, 2012;Bijman, 2011;Unterrainer, Palgi, Weber, Iwanowa & Oesterreich, 2011;Jiménez, Martí, & Ortiz, 2010;Byrne & McCarthy, 2005). Co-operatives are autonomous associations of persons or entities who voluntarily come together to meet their common needs through a jointly-owned and democratically-controlled enterprise (Novkovic, 2008).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Should I Stay or Should I Go? Normative Member Commitment in Co-operatives

Jussila¹,

Roessl²,

Tuominen³

2014

IJMS

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Research on co-operative organizations has posited member commitment as a critical issue for sustainable and successful co-operation. To our knowledge, none of the previous works have focused on normative commitment to map accumulated knowledge on the members' sense of obligation to maintain patronage of the co-operative. It is towards these ends our work is directed. More specifically, our paper creates value for future research and practice of co-operation by identifying four sources of normative member-commitment: 1) coalition awareness, 2) internalization of co-operative philosophy, 3) identification with the coalition and 4) recognized realization of co-operative values and principles.

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“…The evidence gathered from the analysis shows that organizational cooperatives of Mondragon speak the lingua franca of conventional managerialism. Conversely, the discourses which emphasize the key values, and principles of cooperation and therefore industrial democracy in action, such as the democratization of employee-management relations (Cheney, 1999) or the mutual dependence of one on another in value creation processes (Jussila et al, 2012), hardly make an appearance.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%