Pub Date : 2025-11-15DOI: 10.1016/j.jcom.2025.100271
Sonja Novkovic, Júlia Martins Rodrigues
The paper contributes to the theory of network governance by considering external governance of cooperative networks in the circular economy. Building on Provan and Kenis (2007) categorization of network governance structures, the paper expands the understanding of socially embedded, purpose-driven networks of cooperative enterprises. The framing of cooperative circular networks informs the literature on governance of circular economies as well, since governance in cooperative complex systems may be institutionalized as democratic multi-stakeholder enterprises, internalizing socio-ecological goals. These theoretical insights are supported by exploratory evidence from cooperative networks and multi-stakeholder spinoffs in the circular social economy.
{"title":"Cooperative network governance innovations for circular economy","authors":"Sonja Novkovic, Júlia Martins Rodrigues","doi":"10.1016/j.jcom.2025.100271","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcom.2025.100271","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The paper contributes to the theory of network governance by considering external governance of cooperative networks in the circular economy. Building on Provan and Kenis (2007) categorization of network governance structures, the paper expands the understanding of socially embedded, purpose-driven networks of cooperative enterprises. The framing of cooperative circular networks informs the literature on governance of circular economies as well, since governance in cooperative complex systems may be institutionalized as democratic multi-stakeholder enterprises, internalizing socio-ecological goals. These theoretical insights are supported by exploratory evidence from cooperative networks and multi-stakeholder spinoffs in the circular social economy.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":43876,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Co-operative Organization and Management","volume":"13 2","pages":"Article 100271"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145568283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-10-23DOI: 10.1016/j.jcom.2025.100270
Krzysztof Jackowicz , Łukasz Kozłowski , Monika Marcinkowska
We analyse how cooperative banks in Poland, applying a relationship-based business model, overcome impediments stemming from low local trust. Using a novel dataset comprising almost 6000 bank-year observations and covering the 2010–2020 period, we find that cooperative banks confronted with the problem of low local trust are more likely to disclose information on capital adequacy on their websites. Therefore, empirical evidence suggests that cooperative banks operating in low local trust environments opt for more transparent disclosure strategies.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-15DOI: 10.1016/j.jcom.2025.100269
Timo Fiorito, Marcel Veenswijk
Public–private partnerships (PPPs) are globally recognized for addressing social issues, yet recent research reveals a disconnection between their intended goals and actual outcomes. This paper explores PPPs as potential rational myths, emphasizing their symbolic significance. Focusing on Dutch law enforcement, the study analyzes rhetorical strategies sustaining the myth of PPPs. Beyond utility, PPPs serve as strategic instruments with profound symbolic implications. Our findings highlight three rhetorical strategies—legitimation, nuancing, and reimagining—employed by proponents of the myth. These strategies shape, interpret, and adapt the rational myth across contexts, underscoring the nuanced interplay between symbolic and functional dimensions in the realm of PPPs.
{"title":"Merit of the myth: The symbolic aspects of public–private partnership in Dutch law enforcement","authors":"Timo Fiorito, Marcel Veenswijk","doi":"10.1016/j.jcom.2025.100269","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcom.2025.100269","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Public–private partnerships (PPPs) are globally recognized for addressing social issues, yet recent research reveals a disconnection between their intended goals and actual outcomes. This paper explores PPPs as potential rational myths, emphasizing their symbolic significance. Focusing on Dutch law enforcement, the study analyzes rhetorical strategies sustaining the myth of PPPs. Beyond utility, PPPs serve as strategic instruments with profound symbolic implications. Our findings highlight three rhetorical strategies—legitimation, nuancing, and reimagining—employed by proponents of the myth. These strategies shape, interpret, and adapt the rational myth across contexts, underscoring the nuanced interplay between symbolic and functional dimensions in the realm of PPPs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":43876,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Co-operative Organization and Management","volume":"13 2","pages":"Article 100269"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145325184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-08-13DOI: 10.1016/j.jcom.2025.100268
Jerome Warren
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Pub Date : 2025-04-11DOI: 10.1016/j.jcom.2025.100260
Theo Benos , Panagiota Sergaki , Nikos Kalogeras
In the European Union’s agri-food sector, where most farm businesses are small and the opportunistic behavior of powerful chain actors is a major market challenge, cooperatives substantially reinforce their members’ bargaining position. However, opportunism is also common within cooperatives, a dominant form of which surfaces when members side-sell to competing chain actors. As side-selling jeopardizes cooperatives’ viability and persists, we aim to explore novel antecedents that might also inform solutions. Motivated by the dual nature of cooperatives as a social group and a business enterprise, we examine the restraining influence of two social phenomena that explain why humans cooperate - trust and gossip - on members’ illegal side-selling behavior. With survey data from 170 members in 48 cooperatives, we find that perceived negative gossip curbs illegal side-selling, and trust has an indirect preventive effect through perceived member benefits. Taken together, our study’s findings advance the knowledge of internal opportunism in cooperatives and may prove valuable to crucial stakeholders for the development of the European Union’s agri-food sector.
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Pub Date : 2025-01-08DOI: 10.1016/j.jcom.2024.100259
Getu Hailu , Alfons Weersink , Bart Minten
We examine the effect of rural institutions on plot-level technical efficiency of teff production. We account for differences in production technology, access to the market, plot characteristics, and weather shocks across plots and investigate the robustness of the effects of rural institutions on technical efficiency across various specifications. Using a large and detailed cross-section of teff plots, we find that teff output could be increased by approximately 25 percent with the available inputs and technology through improved technical efficiency. The magnitude of technical inefficiency is robust to alternative functional forms and variable specifications. Community discussion groups and distance to the nearest agricultural co-operative have a positive relationship with technical efficiency, highlighting their potential to enhance agricultural productivity. However, we find limited evidence on the relationship between co-operative membership, visits with extension and technical efficiency of teff producers. Our results show that when studying the impact of new programs and policies in agriculture, it is important to look beyond just whether farmers are members of co-operatives. We might consider other factors, such as how much access they have to co-operative services. It is crucial for policymakers to consider implementing targeted interventions to share information on best management practices and agricultural technologies in order to address the efficiency gap in teff production.
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Pub Date : 2025-01-03DOI: 10.1016/j.jcom.2024.100257
Anthony Piscitelli , Katharine McGowan , Liam McHugh-Russell , Sean Geobey
Most cooperatives are incorporated, with a board of directors who bear legal responsibility for supervising management and setting strategic direction. How should boards exercise that role? While for-profit corporate directors can turn to practical guides, academic literature, and popular non-fiction to guide their decisions, there is much less direct guidance for directors in the coops context. The paper argues that the legal duty of cooperative directors to act in the “best interest of the cooperative” is a promising conceptual starting point to develop such guidance. It then draws from for-profit corporate governance debates and the ICA Cooperative Principles to map the promise, disadvantage and limits of three broad approaches to satisfying the best interests standard: member primacy, stakeholder approaches such as the Trustee Model and the Team Production Model, and purpose-based approaches which identify the best interest of a cooperative either with its specific, formal purpose or with the purpose(s) of cooperatives more broadly.
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Pub Date : 2024-12-30DOI: 10.1016/j.jcom.2024.100258
Muleye Tarekegn Dirse , Gurudutta P. Japee
The subject of funding sources and financial sustainability in saving and credit cooperatives (SACCOs) has become more critical as microfinance institutions, previously reliant on donations, are now compelled to transition towards commercialized financing avenues. Hence, this study aims to examine the relationship between funding sources and the financial sustainability of SACCOs in Ethiopia. To address this objective, we analyzed a balanced panel dataset of 238 SACCOs spanning the years 2019–2021. Applying the correlated panel-corrected standard error (PCSE) and random-effects probit regression estimator, the findings indicate a positive and consistently significant association between member capital and deposit financing sources and the financial sustainability of SACCOs. At the same time, a high level of external borrowing balance in the SACCO's assets (debt-to-asset ratio) is found to insignificant impact on financial sustainability. However, evaluating the external borrowing proportion relative to member capital (debt-to-equity) demonstrates a positive contribution to financial sustainability. In addition, to account for potential differences in their operational environments and access to funding sources, a separate study of SACCOs in urban and rural SACCOs shows that capital structure variables have similar effects on their financial performance, except for the debt-to-asset ratio, which has a different effect on each. So, the optimal financing sources for SACCOs derive from member participation through member capital and deposit funding avenues.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-27DOI: 10.1016/j.jcom.2024.100248
Sanna Saastamoinen, Anu Puusa
Co-operatives differ from other forms of business due to their strong values-based nature, but it is nevertheless recognized that there is a significant gap between international co-operative values and the practical management of co-operatives. According to the values base, management naturally requires that co-operatives as organizations have a common sensemaking of co-operative values. With this present research, we create a deep understanding of how the managers of large co-operatives make sense of the values related to the co-operative ideology. As a result of our qualitative empirical research, we present how Finnish managers of large co-operatives understand the values-based nature of co-operatives in two ways – enacted and idealistic – and construct an ideology of co-operatives around four values: equality, financial responsibility, democracy, and regional responsibility. At the co-operative level, the understanding of values is constructed as a shared, incongruous, partially shared, and contradictory sensemakings. The findings reveal that the values-based nature of co-operatives is recognized but that it is tense and fragmented, and we suggest strengthening management training and information to members to strengthen the unique identity of co-operatives.
{"title":"Enacted or idealistic co-operative values?","authors":"Sanna Saastamoinen, Anu Puusa","doi":"10.1016/j.jcom.2024.100248","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcom.2024.100248","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Co-operatives differ from other forms of business due to their strong values-based nature, but it is nevertheless recognized that there is a significant gap between international co-operative values and the practical management of co-operatives. According to the values base, management naturally requires that co-operatives as organizations have a common sensemaking of co-operative values. With this present research, we create a deep understanding of how the managers of large co-operatives make sense of the values related to the co-operative ideology. As a result of our qualitative empirical research, we present how Finnish managers of large co-operatives understand the values-based nature of co-operatives in two ways – enacted and idealistic – and construct an ideology of co-operatives around four values: equality, financial responsibility, democracy, and regional responsibility. At the co-operative level, the understanding of values is constructed as a shared, incongruous, partially shared, and contradictory sensemakings. The findings reveal that the values-based nature of co-operatives is recognized but that it is tense and fragmented, and we suggest strengthening management training and information to members to strengthen the unique identity of co-operatives.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":43876,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Co-operative Organization and Management","volume":"12 2","pages":"Article 100248"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142328315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-09-05DOI: 10.1016/j.jcom.2024.100235
Michal Banka , Magdalena Marczewska , Mariusz Salwin , Roberta Dutra De Andrade , Piotr Boulange , Norbert Chmiel , Ilona Jacyna Golda
Start-up corporation collaboration is a phenomenon that is becoming more and more noticeable in the marketplace. Start-ups perceive such partnerships as an opportunity to scale up their solutions (products/services), while corporations open up to young companies to explore new business models. Understanding the collaboration goals is vital to secure collaboration benefits for each party. It seems interesting to find out to what extent this type of collaboration is critical to the start-ups, to what extent the corporate collaboration goals are defined, and if they are achieved. Therefore, diffusion of innovation theory and social network theory appear as a capable theoretical lens for analysing how 15 defined goals that start-ups use to guide them through establishing collaboration with corporations and verifying partnerships in the context of the adopted goals. The impact of the start-ups' experience on the perceived significance of the goals and their attainment level was examined. Moreover, a clear difference in the perception of expectations and the level of attainment of the set goals of partnership with corporations depending on the company development phase was highlighted, and it was presented how start-up awareness grows along with start-up development and the approach of start-ups to the studied variables changes.
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