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Beyond “make” or “buy”: Evaluating value‐for‐money in public service delivery Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2024-03-02 Mehdi Shiva, Clare FitzGerald, Eleanor Carter, Mara Airoldi
Outsourcing of public services is under heightened scrutiny. Public managers are asked to conduct thorough “make or buy” assessments to help assure deliverability, affordability, and value for money of public services. The naivety of this request dramatically overlooks the subtlety and challenge faced by public managers. In this paper we connect a range of differently configured contractual agreements
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Equity and fairness in the location of public facilities Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2024-03-02 Monica Anna Giovanniello, Simone Tonin
We analyze the problem of fairly locating two facilities providing a public good in two spatial models: a city line and a network. Each facility is characterized not only by its location but also by its quality. We introduce new notions of envy‐freeness and fairness that can be applied to spatial settings. We show that the tax scheme adopted to finance the public good has a key role in determining
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The commitment of farmers to traditional and hybrid cooperatives: Empirical evidence over a six‐year period Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Rebecca Hansen, Sebastian Hess, Jerker Nilsson, Petri Ollila
This study investigates the commitment of farmer members to traditional and hybrid cooperatives, and examines how and why their commitment has changed over time. The empirical basis consists of three surveys of representative samples of Finnish farmers conducted in 2010, 2013 and 2016. Dairy cooperatives in Finland have a traditional organizational form. Animal breeders deliver to hybrid cooperatives
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Does membership in seed producer cooperatives improve smallholders’ teff productivity? A comparative analysis in North Ethiopia Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Nahusenay Teamer Gebrehiwot, Tafesse W. Gezahegn, Aradom Gebrekidan Abbay, Tesfay Gebrehiwet Entehabu, Alemtsehay Tsegay Beyene, Asfafaw Haileslassie Tesfay, Kifle Tesfamariam Sebhatu
Although teff (Eragrostis tef) is a very important staple food crop in Ethiopia, its production is constrained by low productivity due to poor access and adoption rate of improved seed by farmers. The government of Ethiopia envisions realizing an efficient teff value chain that enables a sustainable increase of smallholder teff productivity. As a result, the government is supporting seed producer cooperatives
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SOEs' commitment to transparency: Voluntary disclosure as a driver of mandatory disclosure Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Estíbaliz Biedma López, Manuel Larrán Jorge, Nieves Gómez Aguilar, María C. Conesa Carril
Non-compliance with transparency obligations among publicly owned enterprises has revealed the lack of coercive capacity of the legislation. In this context, literature suggests that mandatory disclosure becomes a matter of company willingness, but this has not been empirically tested so far. Drawing on Oliver's (1991) typology of organizational strategies and studies on normativity production, this
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Strengthening local economies through social capital: The role of cooperative firms in driving economic growth in Italy Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Giuseppe Terzo, Giuseppe Notarstefano, Umberto Di Maggio
This paper aims to empirically explore the linkage between the cooperative sector and economic growth in Italian provinces (NUTS-3), through a panel analysis covering the period between 2013 and 2019. We hypothesize that the cooperative sector can contribute to economic growth through its ability to generate social capital, thereby helping to mitigate market failures. The empirical analysis does not
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Gender pay gap in the microfinance industry: A global perspective Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Md Aslam Mia, Lucia Dalla Pellegrina, Wai-Yan Wong, Sunil Sangwan
We use a database composed of 2,545 Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) worldwide for the period 2008–18 to explore the effect of a larger share of women's workforce on both staff wages and overall monetary compensation within MFIs. MFIs are different from other industries, as they are traditionally women-centered, i.e. they have a significant share of women employees at every level of the corporate hierarchy
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Participation and commercialization in producer cooperatives: Insights on the role of cooperative functioning and equity strategies Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Esther J. Cheyo, Edmond Nyuyki Mainimo, Daniel M. Okello, Walter Odongo, Stephen W. Kalule
In sub-Saharan Africa, there are growing calls for policy reforms to revive the farmer cooperative movement. However, questions remain over whether farmer participation in agricultural cooperatives brings the desired innovation for markets and commercialization. This study uses a sample of 206 farmers from northern Uganda to examine what drives farmer participation and commercialization among members
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The effect of signaling on crowdfunding performance on social economy organizations in South Korea Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Sun Hee Lee, Sang-Youn Lee
Crowdfunding is an innovative means of financing entrepreneurial initiatives. This study explores the effect of signaling on the crowdfunding performance of social economy organizations (SEOs) in South Korea. Analyzing 677 reward-based crowdfunding projects by SEOs, we found that signaling social purpose, economic purpose, and organizational information were likely to be related to performance. In
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Does government effectiveness moderate public spending on education–shadow economy nexus in ASEAN countries? Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2023-10-17 Toan Khanh Tran Pham
A plethora of empirical work has aimed to investigate the determinants of the shadow economy over the last few years. The impacts of government spending on the shadow economy have been explored. However, the effect of a moderating factor that affects this nexus has been largely ignored in the existing literature. Hence, the purpose of this paper is to explore the moderating role of government effectiveness
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The commercial growth of farmer cooperatives in Romania: A double-hurdle model analysis Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Jasper Grashuis, Florentin Bercu, Andrei-Mirel Florea, Riana Iren Radu
In many countries, farmer cooperatives have been successful at facilitating access to markets in conditions of imperfect competition for a long time. However, modern farmer cooperatives have only been operational in Romania since 2005, and their development is slowed by several internal and external conditions. In the absence of empirical evidence of possible explanations for alleged shortcomings in
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A parametric approach to institutional quality and bank cost inefficiency in diversity context: The case of Italy Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Cristian Barra, Anna Papaccio
Effective government rules and regulations, as well as the ability of the regulator to curb corruption and promote voice and accountability, can influence the ability of bank management to allocate resources and ensure high performance. Based on this assumption, we aim to find out whether institutional quality is able to improve bank performance in Italy. To do so, we rely mainly on the diversity of
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Improving member satisfaction with cooperatives: The role of participation in governance Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2023-09-03 Ziming Liu, Jie Qu, Xinrui Wu, Xing Niu, Shuyi Feng
This paper estimates the impact of participation in governance on member satisfaction with cooperatives using survey data from 960 land cooperative members in the Yangtze River Delta. The instrumental variable approach is used to address potential endogeneity. We find that participation in governance increases member satisfaction with cooperatives by approximately 26.2%. In particular, the impact of
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Beyond conventional models: Lending by Native Community Development Financial Institutions Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2023-08-27 Valentina Dimitrova-Grajzl, Peter Grajzl, Joseph Guse, Michou Kokodoko, Laurel Wheeler
Native Community Development Financial Institutions (Native CDFIs) have become an increasingly important source of credit and financial services in the areas on or near American Indian reservations in the United States. Guided by a conceptual framework developed on the basis of the related finance literature and drawing on loan-level data from eleven Native CDFI loan funds, we offer the first systematic
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Terms of trade volatility and tax revenue in Sub-Saharan African countries Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Godfrey J. Kweka
Terms of trade remain inherently volatile in the global market, exerting pressure on tax revenue with the resulting change in prices and trade (export or import) volumes. This study investigated the empirical relationship between terms of trade volatility from a regional perspective using a dynamic bias corrected model. A corrected dynamic fixed effect and one-step diff-GMM models are used to estimate
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Cooperative employment in the regions of Spain (1999–2019): The convergence clubs Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2023-08-02 María Candelaria Barrios-González, Ana María García-Pérez, Vanessa Yanes-Estévez
In times of crisis, the study of employment is of vital importance, especially that generated by cooperatives, which show great resilience. This paper analyzes the evolution of employment created by cooperatives in the different Spanish regions in relation to total employment between 1999 and 2019 with a pioneering approach. We analyze the existence of convergence clubs among the Spanish regions using
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Classifying the degree of cooperative multinationality: Case study of a French multinational cooperative Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Anjel Errasti, Ignacio Bretos, Carmen Marcuello
In recent decades, the largest European worker cooperatives, and those that are the most emblematic in their countries, have been transformed into multinational companies. This article examines workers’-cooperative multinationality by providing a classifying tool based on the interaction between control rights and return rights held by foreign employees in the subsidiaries of multinational cooperatives
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Political spillovers of workplace democracy in Germany Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Uwe Jirjahn, Thi Xuan Thu Le
Although works councils provide a highly developed mechanism to promote workplace democracy, research on their consequences has been dominated by economic aspects. This study brings a new perspective to the understanding of works councils by examining their influence on workers’ political behavior. Political spillover theory suggests that participation in the firm's decision making has the potential
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Farmers’ organizations and sustainable development: An introduction Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2023-07-07 Wanglin Ma, Marco A. Marini, Dil B. Rahut
This special issue features 14 new research papers investigating the role of farmers’ organizations (e.g., collective action, self-help groups, producer companies/organizations, and cooperatives) in supporting sustainable development. The key findings include: (1) farmer groups and cooperatives promote farmers’ adoption of good farm management practices, new agricultural technologies and sustainable
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Impact of collective action on household welfare: Empirical evidence from baobab collectors in Malawi Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Dennis Etemesi Olumeh, Dagmar Mithöfer
Empirical studies show that smallholder farmers can benefit from collective action by improving their crop production and access to better markets. Although there are numerous studies on the effects of collective action on production and marketing of staple crops, such studies, particularly on the analysis of gender and collective action, are scarce for underutilized crops such as baobab. To address
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Creating social value by empowering people: a social innovation perspective Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Nadia von Jacobi, Enrica Chiappero-Martinetti, Lara Maestripieri, Toa Giroletti
Initiatives across the private, public, and third sectors have increasingly pursued social value beyond mere profit. However, how social value can be created still requires a more detailed investigation. This paper provides conceptual and empirical arguments on how initiatives of social innovation, which intentionally seek to empower people, contribute to generate social value. We investigate three
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Tax morale and social capital: An empirical investigation among European citizens Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Alessandro Cascavilla, Jordi Ripollés, Andrea Morone
Despite the extensive literature examining determinants of tax morale, little is still known about the relationship between the associational involvement of citizens and their willingness to pay taxes. Given the insights offered by the social capital literature regarding the role of voluntary organizations in shaping civic engagement, this study empirically investigates how membership of different
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Women self-help groups and intra-household decision-making in agriculture Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Subash Surendran Padmaja, Aditya Korekallu Srinivasa, Pooja Trivedi, Kondapi Srinivas
This study examines the effect of women-centric agricultural self-help groups (SHGs) on intra-household decision-making in agriculture. Using data collected from an intra-household survey of 815 households, we analyze the effect of women's membership in different types of SHGs on 14 decisions related to farms and households. Specifically, we investigate the discord in decision-making, which is the
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Work integration ambitions of startups in the circular economy Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2023-05-31 Wim Van Opstal, Lize Borms
An increasing number of studies illustrate and estimate the potential of the circular economy to create new jobs, most particularly for vulnerable groups at the labor market. This creates collaborating opportunities for Work Integration Social Enterprises (WISEs) and circular economy ventures. Since a shift to a circular economy requires new visions and strategies, startups are considered as powerful
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(Farmer) Producer Companies in India as new generation cooperatives: Case studies of performance and impact from West Bengal, India Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2023-05-31 Sukhpal Singh
One of the innovative alternatives to the traditional cooperative structure has been the new generation cooperatives or cooperative companies, known as producer companies (PCs) in India since the early 2000s. This paper examines the impact of PCs on the member farmer livelihoods, which is not well studied, with the help of member and non-member farmer interview survey in the Indian state of West Bengal
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Cooperatives and sustainability drivers in the Spanish wine sector. What differences do we find with investor owner firms? Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Juan Ramón Ferrer, María-Carmen García-Cortijo, Juan-Sebastián Castillo Valero, Vicente Pinilla, Raúl Serrano
The fight against climate change has become a basic vector for agri-food business strategies. In Spain, commercial wineries (Investor Owner Firms, IOFs) and cooperatives are facing major challenges in adapting to the most stringent environmental requirements and in becoming sustainable and environmentally responsible companies. The European winemaking model, unlike its “new world” competitors, has
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Cross-border cooperation: A response to the challenges facing agri-food cooperatives in Southern European countries Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Elena Meliá-Martí, Deolinda Meira, José Corberá Martínez, Rui Bertuzi
All agri-food cooperatives share common interests, irrespective of their geographical borders, which should encourage them to undertake inter-cooperation processes as well as to set up transnational cooperatives. This paper has two objectives. The first is to analyze Spanish and Portuguese cooperative regulations and the Statute for a European Cooperative Society to define how to embark on these processes
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Sustainable finance: The role of savings and credit cooperatives in Ecuador Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2023-05-18 María Jesús Segovia-Vargas, I. Marta Miranda-García, Freddy Alejandro Oquendo-Torres
The current world situation leads us to consider that sustainable development needs to be a global priority to ensure the future of the planet and improve the quality of life. There is a need for sustainable finance to support this. Savings and credit cooperatives could help to achieve this impact as they serve the microfinance and microlending market. They facilitate the financial inclusion of the
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The institutional shaping of third sector organizations: Empirical evidence from Italian provinces Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2023-05-07 Giorgia Trasciani, Giovanni Esposito, Francesca Petrella, Vincenzo Alfano, Giuseppe Lucio Gaeta
By relying on province-level data from Italy, this paper empirically studies the factors that correlate with the development of third sector organizations (TSOs) in the Italian territory. Moving beyond traditional explanations of TSOs development based on population heterogeneity theories, our analysis points to the role of public institutions as key driving factors of Italian TSOs development. It
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Development, validation, and reliability of a measurement scale for investigating the principle of intercooperation Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Pedro Henrique Rodrigues de Sousa, Edgar Reyes Junior, Víctor del Corte Lora
The present study aims to develop and validate a measurement scale for investigating the principle of intercooperation, in order to provide researchers in the field of cooperativism with a valid and reliable measure. To this end, four main steps were followed: conceptual mastery, theoretical validation, semantic validation, and statistical validation. First, a preliminary scale was developed based
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Measuring individual social capital in cooperatives in West Shoa, Ethiopia Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Daniel Belay, Asegedech Wondimu
The aim of the paper is to extend the knowledge of the measurement of dimensions of social capital in cooperatives. The paper draws on data collected in a survey of 154 members in dairy cooperatives to develop and test composite indicators for measuring dimensions of social capital: structural, relational, and cognitive. Principal component analyses (PCAs) were performed on the data sets of indicators
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What are the determinants affecting cooperatives’ profitability? Evidence from Spain Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Mercè Sala-Ríos
This study focuses on the analysis of the determinants of Spanish cooperatives’ profitability. We inspect several variables, whose influence on firms’ profitability has been verified by prior literature, and we assess whether these results are confirmed in cooperatives. The data span 13 years (2008–20). We approach the analysis including: (i) firm-specific factors, (ii) industry-specific factors, and
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The effect of commitment in the public goods game with endogenous institution formation Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Misato Inaba, Tetsuya Kawamura, Kazuhito Ogawa
This study focuses on the endogenous formation of institutions for the provision of public goods. Institutions that impose a contribution on their members can increase social welfare. However, without powerful executive authority, not all players become institutional members, and those who choose not to join the institution do not contribute to public goods. Endogenous institution formation—for example
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Eco-innovation and environmental performance: Insights from Spanish wine companies Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Marcos Carchano, Inmaculada Carrasco, Ángela González
This paper investigates the linkages between pressure from stakeholders, eco-innovation and environmental performance considering the moderating role of being a cooperative. Using survey data from 239 Spanish companies we developed a model of structural equations to verify the relationship between the variables. We show that the implementation of eco-innovations, driven by pressure from internal stakeholders
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Are there any differences in the corporate social responsibility strategy of fruit and vegetable production-commercialization cooperatives and other companies operating in southeastern Spain? Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Antonio Martos-Pedrero, Luis J. Belmonte-Ureña, Francisco Joaquín Cortés-García
Customers, civil organizations, the media, and society demand that companies behave in ways beyond regulatory requirements concerning social and environmental issues. Therefore, companies are striving to adapt to these new requirements and to express their commitment to stakeholders through their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategy. The values and principles of cooperatives make them ideal
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Identifying the antecedents of opportunism in agri-food cooperatives: a comparative analysis between first- and second-tier cooperatives Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Jorge Luis Sánchez-Navarro, Narciso Arcas-Lario, Miguel Hernández-Espallardo
Agri-food cooperatives allow farmers to improve their competitiveness and bargaining power. However, the specificities of their organizational form, in which owners are decision makers, suppliers, and clients, open the door to conflicts of interest. Members’ opportunism comes in the aftermath of this and adversely affects cooperatives’ performance. Hence, knowing the antecedents of these undesirable
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Inclusive urban entrepreneurial ecosystem: An exploration of factors affecting organizational ambidexterity Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2023-02-03 Hojjat Shakiba, Ayoub Pazhouhan, Saba Amiri, Kamal Sakhdari
One of the main challenges inclusive urban entrepreneurial ecosystems (IUEEs) face is balancing their organizations' two opposing individual and cooperative activities. The closest concept in the management of dual structures is the so-called organizational ambidexterity (OA). We refer to it as “Individual–Collective Organizational Ambidexterity”. Thus, it is necessary to explore factors affecting
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Co-creation of business models for smallholder forest farmers’ organizations: Lessons learned from rural Ethiopia and Tanzania Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2023-01-19 Kendisha Soekardjo Hintz, Jürgen Pretzsch
Forest farmers’ organizations (FFOs) have recently gained scholarly attention as a collective action instrument to upgrade value chains. However, insights into possible business models and organizational forms of FFOs remain fragmented. This study thus aimed to co-create FFO business models in order to assess the business models in the context of the regulatory framework and the value chain upgrading
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Coping with side-selling in cooperatives: A members’ perspective Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2023-01-17 Theo Benos, Panagiota Sergaki, Nikos Kalogeras, Dimitrios Tzinalas
A central collective action issue in agricultural cooperatives is the free-rider problem, a prevalent form of which arises when members systematically side-sell to competing chain actors. Despite the plethora of studies on side-selling's antecedents, little is known about side-selling's actual consequences, particularly from the standpoint of cooperative members. In two studies, we aim to deliver a
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Occupational choice and entrepreneurship: From necessity to opportunity Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2023-01-12 Rosaria Distefano
We present a simple agency model with a monopolist lender and an individual facing an occupational choice between entering the labor market as a wage worker and starting a self-managed business. We show that, when the reservation utility is relatively low, the lender may not want to offer any credit contract, so the individual is forced to become a wage worker out of necessity, whereas when the reservation
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Productivity drivers of infrastructure companies: Network industries utilizing economies of scale in the digital era Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Ryota Nakatani
What drives the productivity dynamics of infrastructure companies? Using a panel of firms in 14 countries, we study total factor productivity (TFP) enhancers of utility and network services companies. We find that moving TFP closer to the technological frontier drives productivity growth at higher speeds in Asian countries than in European countries. We also find that financial leverage exerts a positive
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The regulatory effect of cooperation degree in increasing tobacco farmers’ income by mitigating production risk shocks Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Ruoyan Zhang, Ru Chen
Context: Different from general agriculture, tobacco agriculture in China adopts the production mode of farmers’ cooperatives to instruct farmers to engage in tobacco agricultural production under a policy of tobacco control. In addition to providing convenience for industry technical standardization, the policy goal aims to cope with the impact of production risk shocks and ultimately ensure the modernization
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Classifying responsible investors: Identifying clusters of Ontario investors Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2022-12-24 Anthony Piscitelli
Little empirical research has explored Canadian investors' interest in responsible investing. A variety of demographic and attitudinal characteristics can contribute to who makes ethical investments. Using a survey of 1,834 residents of Ontario, Canada three groups of investors are identified: those interested in responsible investments who actively avoid investing in some sectors, those interested
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E-commerce adoption among Moroccan agricultural cooperatives: Between structural challenges and immense business performance potential Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2022-12-21 Imad Jabbouri, Rachid Jabbouri, Karim Bahoum, Yasmine El Hajjaji
This paper explores the barriers that Moroccan agricultural cooperatives face in adopting E-commerce and the perceived impact this approach would hae on their business performance. We surveyed 120 Moroccan agricultural cooperatives and interviewed 13 cooperative presidents to collect both quantitative and qualitative data. We use descriptive and inferential statistics including independent t-tests
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Are cooperatives gender sensitive? A confirmatory and predictive analysis of women's collective entrepreneurship Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Maria Bastida, Ana Olveira, Miguel Ángel Vázquez Taín
The literature on entrepreneurship has developed a huge body of fruitful research to explain why women do not engage in business as often as men. However, relatively little is known about the role that different business models may play in driving women's entrepreneurial activity, which is examined in this study.
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Impact of farmer group participation on the adoption of sustainable farming practices—spatial analysis of New Zealand dairy farmers Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Wei Yang, Le Wang
This paper analyzes the impact of participation in farmer groups on dairy farmers’ adoption of sustainable farming practices in New Zealand. A spatial propensity score matching method is used to consider the spatial dependence and social connections between farmers in the decision-making of farmer group participation and adoption of sustainable farming practices. The results show that farmers’ decisions
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Manager bonding and the technical efficiency of cooperative credit unions-parametric and non-parametric analyses Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Michael Adusei, Kwasi Poku, Samuel Akomea
We engage parametric and non-parametric approaches to analyze unbalanced data (2012–16) from 225 credit unions in Ghana. The non-parametric analysis involves using data envelopment analysis to assess the technical efficiency of the credit unions. We show that most of them are not technically efficient. The average five-year overall technical efficiency and pure technical efficiency scores of a credit
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ICT diffusion in public administrations and business dynamics: Evidence from Italian municipalities Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Nicola Matteucci, Raffaella Santolini, Silvio Di Fabio
Public administrations have been adopting information and communication technologies (ICT) to transform their internal organization and provide better public services to citizens and firms. However, the external benefits, despite being deemed relevant, have been empirically overlooked. We first explore the relation between ICT diffusion in public administrations and business demography at the municipal
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The socio-economic impact of certification schemes in conflict-affected regions: The case of arabica coffee in the Eastern DRC Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2022-11-22 Wannes Slosse, Jeroen Buysse, Koen Schoors, Ivan Godfroid, Michaela Boyen, Marijke D'Haese
The paper investigates the benefits of certification of cooperatives in conflict-affected areas. We study whether and how certification may contribute to attenuate the impact of conflicts on the members of coffee cooperatives in the Eastern DRC. We use an inverse probability weighted difference-in-difference approach to study data collected between December 2017 and October 2019 from four NGO-supported
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The resurrection of earlier imprints post mortem: Explaining the Turkish agricultural cooperative movement with an imprinting theory lens, 1888–1937 Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Cemil Ozan Soydemir, Mehmet Erçek
This study aims to extend the cooperative lifecycle theory, which builds on consecutive degeneration and regeneration of ideal cooperative values such as democracy, self-help, and solidarity by offering a new regenerative mechanism. In this respect, the study imports multilevel imprinting theory from the organizational ecology domain to explicate the punctuated evolutionary pattern of Turkish agricultural
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South Korean social enterprises and their networks: On their organizational linkages at the interstice between the third, public, and corporate sectors Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Casper Hendrik Claassen, Eric Bidet, Junki Kim
Social enterprise and government interactions have become an increasingly prominent theme in the literature on social entrepreneurship, due in part to the pressures confronting the welfare state and the rise of precarious work. This analysis is motivated by the efforts of the government of South Korea to incubate social enterprises since 2007. The constant scaling of the South Korean government's monitored
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How to eliminate the uncovered market: A duopoly model with government intervention Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Dongmin Yao, Pengyuan Zhang, Xiaoyu Meng
To eliminate poverty, government intervention is critical for addressing uncovered markets. To assess how this can be done effectively, this study constructs a two-firm model with government intervention. The study focuses on the preconditions, methods, and effects of different government intervention strategies. There are three main findings. (1) When consumer income levels fall below a certain threshold
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Effect of board gender diversity on the financial performance of microfinance institutions: Does judicial efficiency matter? Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2022-09-27 Beatrice Sarpong-Danquah, Michael Adusei, Joseph Magnus Frimpong
The impact of board gender diversity on the financial performance of firms is not known. This is because empirical investigations have yielded inconclusive outcomes. This study engages data from 408 microfinance institutions (MFIs) covering the period 2010–2018 from the six microfinance regions to investigate this impact using the Least Squares Dummy Variable (LSDV) and the System Generalized Method
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The tax advantage of public firms over private firms in the German household solid waste disposal industry Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2022-09-14 Marko Krause, Alexander Lahmann
We measure the tax advantage of public firms over private firms, which operate at municipality level in the German household solid waste disposal industry. Public firms with sovereign duties pay no taxes, but equivalent private firms have to. In a simple risk-free setting, we develop a measure of the percentage difference of the charges of both types of firms demanded under their respective tax treatments
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Managerial firms’ profitability, unions, and environmental taxes Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2022-09-08 Domenico Buccella, Luciano Fanti, Luca Gori
This article examines how determining an optimal environmental tax in a Cournot duopoly with unionized labour markets and managerial firms departing from the strict profit-maximization. It is shown that firm-specific monopoly unions that set wages (1) reduce both the environmental tax and environmental damage and (2) counterintuitively, increase firms’ profitability when the abatement technology is
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Exploring the attractiveness of social enterprises to job seekers: The role of perceived value fit and prestige Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2022-09-05 Saskia Crucke, Hanne Bockaert
Existing research indicates that job seekers are attracted to organizations demonstrating social responsibility. This seems especially true for commercial enterprises that engage in socially responsible practices, but is challenged in the case of social enterprises. While commercial enterprises stay focused on their primary aim of generating financial revenues when engaging in social responsibility
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Corruption and corporate leverage in an emerging economy: The role of economic freedom Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2022-09-01 Anh-Tuan Doan, Bich-Thanh Truong, Chi-Cuong Nguyen, Phan-Tam-Nhu Nguyen, Hai-Yen Truong, Anh-Tuan Le
This study investigated the effects of corruption and economic freedom on corporate leverage. We also evaluated how economic freedom shapes the effect of corruption on corporate leverage. Using a sample of Vietnamese firms covering a nine-year period from 2010 to 2018, we find evidence that increased control of corruption has a significant positive impact on firm leverage, whereas the opposite is true
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Tax morale, fiscal capacity, and war Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2022-07-06 Alessandro Belmonte, Désirée Teobaldelli, Davide Ticchi
This paper studies the effects of mobilization for war on the development of fiscal capacity and the values of tax compliance (tax morale). We propose a dynamic setting where governments may invest resources to improve the efficiency of the fiscal apparatus and the citizens' tax morality in order to raise the necessary revenues for the defense against a threat (external or internal), and parents optimally
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Cooperative movement and widespread prosperity across Italian regions Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2022-06-27 Michele Costa, Flavio Delbono, Francesco Linguiti
Our goal is to participate in the debate on regional well-being. To this end, we explore the relationship between prosperity and the cooperative movement at the regional level in Italy between 2010 and 2019. We summarize prosperity through an index originally proposed by Amartya Sen and we apply it to classify Italian regions. We then perform panel analyses showing that there is a positive and significant
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Loan officer gender and loan repayment performance. Evidence from greenfield microfinance institutions in Cameroon1 Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (IF 1.679) Pub Date : 2022-06-10 Hubert Tchakoute Tchuigoua
We explore whether loan officer gender affects loan repayment performance in Cameroonian microfinance institutions (MFIs). After controlling for demand-side factors (borrower characteristics), lending methodology, loan contract terms, year, and industry fixed effects, we apply a pooled probit model to a unique loan-level dataset including more than 7000 loans approved between 2007 and 2012 by two Cameroonian