Cooperative organizations face problems with the opportunistic behavior of their members, such as the “free-rider problem”. To mitigate this problem, cooperative governance systems develop strategies that aim to maximize the economic gains of cooperative members through investments in technical assistance programs. The purpose of our research is to verify if the participation in the technical assistance program increases the probability of loyalty of dairy cooperative members. To this end, we developed an econometric model with logistic regression, using secondary data extracted from the Programa Gerencial Leite. The program is developed by the cooperative system of the State of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil and comprises 24 cooperatives. The collected data are longitudinal and include the commercial milk transactions carried out between cooperative members and cooperatives during the years 2014 to 2018, totaling 10,548 cooperative members and 28,765 observations collected and analyzed during this period. Our results indicate that participation in the technical assistance program offered by the cooperative governance increases the probability of loyalty of dairy farmers.

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技术援助：合作成员忠诚度的决定因素

合作组织面临成员机会主义行为的问题，例如“搭便车问题”。为了缓解这个问题，合作治理系统制定了旨在通过投资技术援助计划来最大化合作成员的经济收益的战略。我们研究的目的是验证参与技术援助计划是否会增加乳制品合作社成员的忠诚度。为此，我们使用从Programa Gerencial Leite中提取的二手数据开发了一个带有逻辑回归的计量经济学模型. 该计划由巴西南里奥格兰德州的合作社系统开发，由 24 个合作社组成。收集的数据是纵向的，包括 2014 年至 2018 年期间合作社成员与合作社之间进行的商业牛奶交易，在此期间共收集和分析了 10,548 名合作社成员和 28,765 次观察。我们的研究结果表明，参与合作治理提供的技术援助计划增加了奶农忠诚度的可能性。