3.7.2. Independent variables Members’ satisfaction to overall performance of their cooperatives was hypothesized to be influenced by various factors such as households demographic characteristics, internal factors (arise from the cooperatives) and external factors. The explanatory variables were operationally defined as follows. Age of the household head (AGE): It is a continuous variable defined as the household head’s age at the time of interview measured in years. As age of farmers become older and older they have strong sense of ownership which leads to actively participate in the cooperatives to be beneficial. Besides, the capacities to earn additional cash income increase with age which improves members’ purchasing powers for agricultural …show more content…
It is the number of share holdings by the cooperative member based on the by-law of the cooperative. Farmers with more awareness about purpose of cooperative may purchases number of shares to capitalize their cooperative. This implies that farmers with more shareholding may participate more in the cooperative affairs (Alema, 2008). Therefore, shareholding may have positive relationship with performance of cooperatives and member’s satisfaction. Member’s participation (MEMPART): It refers to the level of member’s participation in selling of their product through their cooperative. Hakelius (2009) notes that fundamental factors for any cooperative society include its members and active member’s participation to the cooperative are integral for its success. It is hypothesized that cooperatives those have more active participant members in market can perform better and provide desirable service to members. It is categorized as participate “1” and …show more content…
It is hypothesized that a cooperative that is member of cooperative union can perform better than those not member of cooperative union. It is dummy variable it takes value 1 for member and 0 non members to cooperative union. Cooperative Age (COOPAGE): This is the number of years a cooperative has completed at the time of the compilation of data collection and it is a continuous variable. As time goes and the cooperative pass through the ups and downs, the success and failures and surmount the challenges as well as begin to taste the fruits of their hard work, member’s satisfaction also increases (Almaz, 2008). It is hypothesized that cooperatives having long experience can perform better hence it can satisfy its members. Degree of Government support (DEGOVSUPP): This is the extent or degree of government support as perceived by members to multipurpose agricultural cooperatives to expand their internal business growth and thereby to provide quality and adequate service for their members as well as to the community. Government’s close follow up and support of cooperatives is very necessary to build a strong sector that contributes to development of an economy (Shaw, 2007). This is expected to influence performance of cooperatives
in 2012 6024 cooperatives were created in the country, when in 2011 they had established 1777, representing an increase of 239% in just 12 months. (http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1561788-crecen-sin-control-las-cooperativas-sociales-y-abundan-las-quejas)+
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The Coop has no major market research to go off of in order to effectively position them in a changing market. R&D doesn't seem to be supported by good research in the market segments.
Cooperative person :No man is an island. Also, in this day and age, more than ever, a man requires a gathering of individuals with whom to succeed. Thusly, being a cooperative person in this day and age is nearly as vital as any scholastic degree.
6) Cooperation is a feature of all forms of economic organization on a large scale. The more productivity depends on brains' rather than brawn', the more important cooperation based on high trust becomes.
The role of cooperation is to establish a relation of profit that creates a support to their investors. The rules and laws of the corporation follows the sets, which are made by National Government of the country where they are operating however, they do not mainly play a role in changing the ethics of the c...
Another important quality in a successful society is collaboration. Collaboration is the act of wo...
Most family owned farms have complete control over their finance and produce. However, these numbers have been fluctuating. Some of the commonly known farms today have been bought off creating corporate owned farms and partnerships with organizations like Tyson foods and Perdue farms. Corporate owned farms tend to be larger in production and distribution of products. Nonetheless, since the farmers now share a portion of their business to these corporations or partnerships, they won’t earn as much or have a preferred rule over their goods. These agricultural businesses are mostly involved in the marketing and retail portion of the jobs making the food products unreliable, as to what produce came from witch farm and what animal. An article by Jacob C. Toews called
Cooperation or collaboration is the tendency to work together for mutual benefit and is generally contrasted to competition which is working against each other for a larger share of benefits. Cooperation is not always desirable nor is compition always to be deplored. When people are cooperative regardless of how they feel or the other person behaves, they may be exploited and taken advantage of.
The statement above means that they have been doing research about cooperative learning in educational psychology. According to them cooperative learning is a group with small amount of people that are working together to achieve learning goals.
Cooperation: cooperating to distinguish and actualize activity, empowering systems administration and relationships amongst groups and
Sang-Il Han, Moo-Kwon Chung* and Mun-su Park (2013). “Local stakeholder involvement and social innovation in Korean co-operatives.” Community Development Journal. Advance Access published July 3, 2013, 1-17.
Previous researchers have shown that there is a positive relationship between cooperation and satisfaction (e.g. Mallen, 1963; Dwyer, 1980; Schmitz Whipple and Gentry, 2000). The cooperative efforts of channel members should results in greater trust, commitment, channel efficiency and the achievement goals, thus leading to higher levels of satisfaction. (Jonsson and Zineldin, 2003).
Partnership – This is a model based on sharing profits and pursuing common business obje...
Wageman, R., & Baker, G. (1997). Incentives and cooperation: The joint effects of task and