To pursue development goals, policymakers and scholars alike have proposed that actors in
rural areas may usefully engage in collective actions, eg by forming community groups …

Using data from a sample of 606 nonexecutives sitting on boards of a Canadian credit
union, this study tests the relationship between chairs' authentic leadership on boards and …

Rural cooperatives are assumed to contribute to economic development, regeneration,
service delivery and local democracy. This paper examines the problems of setting up early …

Aim/purpose–Creativity and innovation are crucial for attaining a competitive advantage for
organizations. However, dynamic changes in the environment, like the ones induced by the …

The training of a board of directors for a cooperative business often focuses on the fiduciary
duties and skills needed by the cooperative. However, this focus fails to recognize that high …

Agricultural cooperatives possess a unique business structure, unlike investor-owned firms.
One of the most important differences is how an agricultural cooperative is run and …

The number of women joining the formal waged labour market has been visibly increasing
since the 1950s to become half of the employees in the developed economies (McAdam & …

The most recent accounting for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) provided
evidence of the mixed results of the program. The actual losses expended through the …

This article aims to examine board effectiveness through a new lens, based on human
ideologies rather than traditional characteristics such as board size. We compare the self …

Zadružništvo je oblika organiziranja, ki je skozi desetletja doživljala vzpone in padce.
Namen vsake zadruge je pospeševati gospodarske koristi članov, dosega pa ga lahko …