Objectives’ alignment between members and agricultural cooperatives

Bareille, François; Bonnet-Beaugrand, Florence; Duvaleix-Tréguer, Sabine

doi:10.1007/s41130-017-0048-3

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“…A farmer's choice to be integrated in an agricultural cooperative can be related to non‐monetary factors. Many studies examine the determinants of membership commitment and the role of trust (Hansen et al ., 2002; Morrow et al ., 2004; Roe et al ., 2004; Nilsson et al ., 2009; Österberg and Nilsson, 2009; Barraud‐Didier et al ., 2012; Bareille et al ., 2017). However, empirical studies explicitly exploring the social role of cooperatives are scarce.…”

Section: Empirical Studies: Can Cooperatives Influence Farm Sustainability?mentioning

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Agricultural Cooperatives and Farm Sustainability – A Literature Review

Candemir

Duvaleix-Tréguer

Latruffe

2021

Journal of Economic Surveys

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We present a literature review of the role played by agricultural cooperatives in influencing farm sustainability. We first focus on the theoretical literature to highlight the various economic behaviours of cooperatives. Then we investigate all three dimensions of sustainability in developing and developed countries. We aim at linking the empirical findings to the theoretical understanding of cooperatives, in particular members’ heterogeneity. This paper shows that cooperatives play a non‐negligible role in farm economic sustainability and in the adoption of environmentally friendly practices, suggesting that both public policies and private initiatives in cooperatives may be complementary. As regards social sustainability, there are only a few studies existing on the role of agricultural cooperatives. The trade‐off between economic and environmental sustainability in cooperatives would need to be further investigated.

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Section: Empirical Studies: Can Cooperatives Influence Farm Sustainability?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Agricultural Cooperatives and Farm Sustainability – A Literature Review

Candemir

Duvaleix-Tréguer

Latruffe

2021

Journal of Economic Surveys

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141

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“…According to this approach, the key challenge is to define and maintain the system-environment boundary. Heterogeneity problems indicate that this boundary is not adequately defined, so that cooperative sustainability problems ensue [6,[21][22][23][24][25]. Redefining the boundary is thus the fundamental solution; while tuning and adaptation within the given/fixed boundary present symptomatic solutions.…”

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Member Heterogeneity in Agricultural Cooperatives: A Systems-Theoretic Perspective

Iliopoulos

Valentinov

2018

Sustainability

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All over the globe, cooperatives are plagued by pervasive member heterogeneity problems that are induced by the radical and dynamic changes in the business environment. Most current solutions to these problems emphasize strengthening member loyalty and commitment. Yet, many of these solutions are symptomatic rather than fundamental. Searching for fundamental solutions, this paper draws on the Luhmannian system-environment paradigm. Bringing this paradigm to bear on the cooperative scholarship, the paper views cooperatives as operationally closed systems maintaining a precarious relationship to their outer environment, which includes cooperative members. In view of their operational closure, cooperatives tend to overstrain the carrying capacity of their environment by being active in the areas marked by a limited extent of the true commonness of member interests. This overstraining results in a host of problems associated with member heterogeneity. The fundamental solutions following from the system-environment paradigm require the adjustment of cooperative boundaries and goals in light of the evolving range of the true common interests of members. In terms of methodology, we review the extant literature, synthesize the main elements of the system-environment approach and conduct a meta-analysis of case studies and other empirical research to highlight our theoretical arguments.

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“…(3) Quality management systems and production sustainability: Quality and sustainability are key factors that affect global competition; therefore, taking care of the producers of raw materials is imperative and implies the strengthening of relationships with members (Bareille et al, 2017).…”

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Cooperatives' performance relative to investor-owned firms: a non-distorted approach for the wine sector

D’Amato

Festa

Dhir

et al. 2021

BFJ

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Purpose This study aims to investigate whether significant performance differences between cooperatives and investor-owned firms (IOFs) may exist.Design/methodology/approach Based on data from a sample of Italian wine firms for the period from 2009 to 2018, an adjusted measure of performance called earnings before interests, taxes, depreciations and amortizations gross the raw materials cost was adopted to consider the different objectives of cooperatives relative to those of IOFs.Findings Empirical evidence shows that in the context under analysis, cooperatives have performed better than IOFs.Originality/value Despite the theoretical literature suggesting that the cooperative form of organizations suffers from many weaknesses, these results highlight that cooperatives operating in the wine sector are at least as economically efficient as other organizations, and more specifically, they perform better than for-profit firms. Consequent implications for theory and practice are discussed.

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Objectives’ alignment between members and agricultural cooperatives

Abstract: Paper prepared for presentation at the 149th EAAE Seminar 'Structural change in agri-food chains: new relations between farm sector, food industry and retail sector'

Cited by 16 publications

References 24 publications

Agricultural Cooperatives and Farm Sustainability – A Literature Review

Agricultural Cooperatives and Farm Sustainability – A Literature Review

Member Heterogeneity in Agricultural Cooperatives: A Systems-Theoretic Perspective

Cooperatives' performance relative to investor-owned firms: a non-distorted approach for the wine sector

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