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ARE FINANCIAL AND SOCIAL EFFICIENCY MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE? A CASE STUDY OF VIETNAMESE MICROFINANCE INSTITUTIONS by LEBOVICS, Maxime, HERMES, Niels, HUDON, Marek

“…ABSTRACT A major debate in microfinance focuses on the existence of a trade‐off between the financial sustainability of microfinance institutions (MFIs) and…”
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THE EXTENDED GOVERNANCE OF COOPERATIVE FIRMS: INTER-FIRM COORDINATION AND CONSISTENCY OF VALUES by SACCHETTI, Silvia, TORTIA, Ermanno

“…ABSTRACT This work aims at providing a framework for the analysis of governance in networks of cooperative firms. It builds on four bodies of literature:…”
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A directional distance approach applied to higher education: An analysis of teaching-related output efficiency by Barra, Cristian, Zotti, Roberto

“…ABSTRACT This paper applies a data envelopment analysis (DEA) method to assess technical efficiency of both private and public universities in Italy. A…”
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Voluntary work and wages by Bruno, Bruna, Fiorillo, Damiano

“…ABSTRACT The effects of voluntary work on earnings have recently been studied for some developed countries such as Canada, France and Austria. This paper…”
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The employment structure of cooperative banks: A test of institutional hypotheses by Bossler, Mario, Schild, Christopher-Johannes

“…ABSTRACT We study the claim that, because of their institutional design, current cooperative banks differ in their employment decisions compared to other…”
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WHAT DETERMINANTS AFFECT THE CAPITAL STRUCTURE OF CONSUMER CO-OPERATIVES? THE CASE OF iCOOP KOREA by SEO, Jinseon, CHOI, Woosuk

“…ABSTRACT The capital structure of co‐operatives can differ from that of IOB (Investor‐Owned Businesses) since the two organizations differ in their aims,…”
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PRIVATIZATION OF THE UK'S PUBLIC UTILITIES: THE BIRTH OF THE POLICY 1979-1984 by PARKER, David

“…ABSTRACT The Conservative governments of the 1980s and 1990s privatized large numbers of state industries. Yet the privatization of the public utilities was…”
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ANALYSIS OF THE POSSIBILITIES FOR EXPANSION OF SERVICES IN TANZANIAN SAVINGS AND CREDITS CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETIES: LEARNING FROM ECONOMIES OF SCALE by NDIEGE, Benson Otieno, QIN, Xuezhi, MASSAMBU, Daud, TOWO, Esther N.

“…ABSTRACT Savings and Credit Co‐operative Societies (SACCOS) increasingly recognized as the valuable tool for economic development in low‐income countries…”
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THE IMPACT OF FOREIGN CAPITAL ON MACROECONOMIC PERFORMANCE IN CENTRAL ASIA by ARAZMURADOV, Annageldy

“…ABSTRACT This paper investigates the short‐run impact of shocks in international capital flows channeled through foreign direct investment (FDI) and foreign…”
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ON THE EMERGENCE OF NON-PROFIT FIRMS AS ALTERNATIVES TO THE GOVERNMENT by MIKAMI, Kazuhiko

“…ABSTRACT It is well known that many non‐profit firms coexist with government firms in industries that provide collectively consumed goods and services, such as…”
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HOLDINGS OF NATIONAL AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS IN COMPANIES IN FINLAND: PERSISTENCE AND CHANGE IN THE LONGER TERM by AHONEN, Pertti

“…ABSTRACT Applying an approach of neo‐institutional research, this article examines the history of company holdings of the national government and local…”
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PRICING REGULATIONS AND NETWORK TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENTS: A RETROSPECTIVE EVALUATION by MAJUMDAR, Sumit K.

“…ABSTRACT This article evaluates the impact of the introduction of incentive regulation on technology deployment, as evaluated using two technology deployment…”
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Effects of cooperative membership on financial performance of banana farmers in China: A heterogeneous analysis by Ma, Wanglin, Zheng, Hongyun, Zhu, Yueji, Qi, Jianling

“…This paper estimates the heterogeneous effects of cooperative membership on smallholder farmers’ financial performance, measured by net returns, return on…”
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Is there life after degeneration? The organizational life cycle of cooperatives under a ‘grow‐or‐die’ dichotomy by Bretos, Ignacio, Errasti, Anjel, Marcuello, Carmen

“…This article provides an in‐depth, longitudinal analysis combining real‐time and retrospective data on a set of Mondragon's industrial cooperatives that are…”
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Cooperative identity as a yardstick for transformative change by Novkovic, Sonja

“…Cooperatives serve a competitive yardstick role in markets dominated by market power such as monopsony or monopoly. This paper argues they can also serve a…”
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EVALUATING THE COSTS, QUALITY, AND VALUE FOR MONEY OF INFRASTRUCTURE PUBLIC‐PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS: A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW by HELBY PETERSEN, Ole

“…ABSTRACT Public‒private partnerships (PPPs) are often promoted as a means to lower the costs and increase the quality and value for money (VfM) of public…”
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What is the benefit of membership in farm producer organizations? The case of coffee producers in Peru by Grashuis, Jasper, Skevas, Theodoros

“…Empirical evidence of the benefit of farm producer organizations (FPOs) in the developing world is mounting. There is, however, no work in South America on the…”
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Impact of cooperative membership on production efficiency of smallholder goat farmers in Nepal by Neupane, Huma, Paudel, Krishna P., Adhikari, Mandeep, He, Qinying

“…Goat is a source of cash income to smallholders in many developing countries. The productivity of goat farmers is poorly understood and assumed similar across…”
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RESILIENCE MEASUREMENT AND CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS: A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE by SERFILIPPI, Elena, RAMNATH, Gayatri

“…ABSTRACT The lack of consensus and consistency in measuring resilience undermines the ability of the development aid community to objectively monitor and…”
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IMPACT OF AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVES ON SMALLHOLDERS' TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM ETHIOPIA by ABATE, Gashaw Tadesse, FRANCESCONI, Gian Nicola, GETNET, Kindie

“…ABSTRACT Using household survey data from Ethiopia, this paper evaluates the impact of agricultural cooperatives on smallholders’ technical efficiency. We used…”
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