نشریه تعاون و کشاورزی
سال یازدهم شماره 42 (تابستان 1401)

The main purpose of this study was to explain and develop effective strategies for public participation and development foundations in urban development and development cooperatives with a social entrepreneurial approach. The present study has been quantitative in terms of method, applied in terms of purpose and survey in terms of data collection method. The statistical population of this study consists of 4 cooperatives in 4 cities of the province. 384 people were selected by stratified random sampling. Data were collected using a researcher-made questionnaire. Its validity was measured and confirmed by content validity and structural validity to examine the components of the questionnaire and its reliability was confirmed using Cronbach's alpha test. In order to analyze the data, structural equation modeling test under software (SMART PLS2) was used. The results showed that each of the dimensions of the Development Cooperative Development Foundation (social, economic and environmental dimensions) and the dimensions of public participation (sense of social belonging, solidarity and social interaction, citizens' satisfaction with life, gender and education) depend on the variable (performance of development companies and Urban development) is effective with a social entrepreneurship approach. Therefore, it is suggested that they use the role of each of their dimensions and subsets in order to develop and explain the performance of urban development and construction companies.

The aim of this study was to identify the opportunities of agricultural production businesses in the rural cooperatives of Ilam province. In this study, the Delphi method was used. The target population of this study includes; employees working in the Agricultural Jihad Organization of Ilam province and cities, employees working in the management of rural cooperatives of the province and cities, CEO and board of directors of the union and rural cooperatives, board of agricultural experts and the trade union system of Ilam province. A total of 110 people were selected as experts using purposive sampling method. The main tools of the study are interviews and semi-structured and structured questionnaires that were designed in three rounds. To analyze the Delphi stages, the statistical indices of mean, standard deviation and coefficient of variation were used to determine the degree of consensus of the participants using SPSS software. The results showed that cases such as; Development of mushroom production and problem solving, development of native poultry production, development of honey production and problem solving of honey treatment, development of medicinal plants, development of livestock breeding (sheep, lamb and goat) and development of city gardens such as grapes and pomegranates and fruits and products market Garden, are some of the opportunities are available in all counties.

The purpose of this applied research is to investigate the role of social capital on the performance of rural cooperatives in Fars province.

The statistical population of the present study consists of members of 173 active rural cooperatives in Fars province (295,367 people). Considering the geographical size of the province and the large size of the statistical population, 384 people were selected as a statistical sample using Cochran's formula. A simple random sampling method was used to distribute the questionnaires among the samples. The main tool for collecting field data was the researcher-made questionnaire, whose validity and reliability have been confirmed by observing the principles of field research methods.

The results of the research showed that the general state of social capital among the members of rural cooperatives in Fars province (including the dimensions of trust, cohesion, awareness and social participation) is at an acceptable level (above average); However, the members' satisfaction with the performance of rural cooperatives in terms of managerial, social, economic, general performance and laws and regulations is at an average level. Based on the results, social capital indicators had a significant effect on the performance of rural cooperatives. Originality: The discussion of the performance of managers in the five sections in question was one of the main cases studied in this research, therefore, the innovation that took place in it was that the performance was examined through the survey of the members of the cooperatives.

 This study aimed to analyze the effect of the tendency to entrepreneurial tendencies and psychological empowerment of rural women members of agricultural cooperatives in Semirom County. This research is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive survey in terms of research method.

This research is applied in terms of purpose and is considered a descriptive survey in terms of research method. To collect the data, a questionnaire was used based on the ordinal scale and the Likert level scale, the validity of which was confirmed by experts, and its reliability was confirmed by calculating the Cronbach's alpha coefficient. The study's statistical population was 239 rural women members of agricultural cooperatives in Semirom County. The sample size was calculated using the Krejcie-Morgan table of 148 people and the sample members were selected by simple random sampling. Also, in order to analyze the data, the structural equation modeling method with partial least squares approach and using Smart-pls3 software was used.

Results showed that the tendency to entrepreneurial tendencies has a positive and significant effect on lifestyle. Lifestyle has a positive and significant effect on the components of psychological empowerment (sense of competence, sense of autonomy, sense of effectiveness, sense of meaning) with path coefficients. The results also indicate the effect of entrepreneurial tendencies on the psychological empowerment of rural women members of agricultural cooperatives in Semirom city with the mediating role of a healthy lifestyle.

Despite the rich literature on entrepreneurial marketing in various texts, the nature of research in the field of cooperative businesses with different cultural and economic burden has undergone major changes and the existing patterns and models of entrepreneurial marketing do not explain well the entrepreneurial marketing methods of these businesses. Therefore, the main purpose of this study is to identify the implementation model of strategic entrepreneurial marketing in production cooperatives. This study, in terms of purpose, is considered as an applied research and it is a qualitative research in terms of data collection method. To identify the pattern of strategic entrepreneurial marketing implementation in production cooperatives, 124 articles were reviewed, of which 26 articles were selected for the final analysis using the Critical Assessment Skills Program. In this study, first 298 indicators of strategic entrepreneurial marketing were identified and classified into 46 concepts and 12 categories. Shannon entropy method was used to determine the weight of the indices. On the basis of the research findings, the main dimensions of entrepreneurial marketing implementation include strategic marketing thinking, intra-organizational factors, strategic planning, target market selection, network of communication-organizational capabilities, entrepreneur-centered marketing strategies, strategic requirements, entrepreneurial requirements, Systematic support for cooperatives management, market entry methods, market research and consumer behavior analysis, and market control and evaluation. Finally, it can be concluded that managers of production cooperatives can use the results of this study to identify new customers and their diverse needs, increase market share and create a competitive advantage.

The major purpose of this study was to investigate the effective factor in the formation of network agricultural production cooperative in the Alborz Province. The statistical population of the study includes cooperatives which are administrated by the "Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare" and the "Rural Cooperative Organization" of the Alborz Province (N = 540). ). From this target population, 176 cooperatives were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling. Eventually, 175 questionnaires were collected and analyzed from the sample population. A questionnaire was developed to examine the technical, economical, educational, legal, social, and policy making factors affecting the formation of network among agricultural production cooperatives. The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by experts in the field of Agricultural Extension and Education. To calculate the reliability coefficient of the questionnaire, Cronbach's alpha coefficient, which is applied for multi-scale questions, was used. The mean of Cronbach's alpha coefficients in this study was 0.803 which shows that the internal consistency of the questionnaire items is appropriate. The results showed that policy making, economic, legal, and educational factors had the most impact, while technical and social factors had no impact development of networks among agricultural production cooperatives.

 Agricultural cooperatives are mainly considered as key actors in the food supply chain. Although these actors can play a role in the formation of cooperative relationships in different stages of the food supply chain, they lack a comprehensive pattern for mapping cooperation. Accordingly, the current study seeks to provide a model for the collaboration of livestock production cooperatives across the food supply chain.

This qualitative study was conducted using classic grounded theory. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 32 experts and cooperatives' managing directors. Snowball and theoretical sampling techniques were used to select participants. In order to facilitate data collection and analysis, a five-step process was performed using Glaser's 6Cs coding family.

The results showed that the formation of a collaboration triangle among cooperatives, members, and the union, based on the contract approach, directs the activities of the cooperatives across the supply chain. This collaboration triangle is facilitated or restricted by various factors, such as trust-based action. Overall, the collaboration structure of cooperatives has a potential context, and in order to provide a real model of this cooperation, it is necessary to implement the principles of cooperation agreements at three levels of production, management, and marketing and market in such a way that the capacities of cooperatives and the needs of the market are taken into account. In the meantime, transparency and formalization of the capacity-need model seem inevitable.

 

In recent years, cooperatives have attracted the attention of researchers as strategic elements to achieve sustainable economic development and greater social cohesion in the context of globalization. Therefore, this research aims to analyze the factors affecting the internationalization of cooperative businesses.

The present research is applied in terms of purpose and uses a qualitative approach through structured grounded theory. The process of studying the phenomenon was discovered based on the analysis of in-depth interviews conducted with 19 directors of active cooperative-oriented businesses with a history of international presence.

The research findings in the form of a paradigm model include: causal conditions (context-oriented, entrepreneur-oriented, network-oriented), contextual conditions (organizational and extra-organizational), and intervening conditions (human, corporate, and institutional barriers), strategies (competitive and customer-oriented) Consequences (reputation and survival). Increasing and improving each component with a plan specific to each of them makes it possible to help the internationalization of cooperatives.Originality/innovation: The results of this research, while strengthening the literature on the internationalization of cooperatives, bring practical achievements to help managers develop the internationalization of cooperatives. It can also guide public policy on export and pave the way for the country's cooperative sector to increase international competitiveness. The innovation of the current research is its comprehensiveness, examining all the influencing factors of internationalization on cooperatives and in terms of the study's target audience to extract all the influential elements in line with the design of the internationalization model of cooperative-oriented businesses.

Using Grounded Theory methodology, this research was carried out with aim of explaining cooperative-based social entrepreneurship in the form of saffron cultivation chain in rural areas of Golestan province. In order to collect qualitative field data, a semi-structured deep interview was used. The research target group included those stakeholders involved in the development of saffron cultivation in the Tilabad watershed of Azadshahr County of Golestan province. Purposefully, to select the interviewees as key informants, the reputational sampling technique in the first stage and snowballing sampling in the second stage were used. The sample size and data collection process continued to the level of theoretical saturation or usefulness threshold of available information and 22 people were interviewed, totally. The process of data analysis consisted of a three-step chain of open, axial, and selective coding. Nvivo10 QSR software was used to extract the concept map of the codes. The research findings were summarized in the form of a paradigm model of cooperative-based social entrepreneurship. This model was formed from five components: causal conditions (demographic contexts, socio-economic constraints, agricultural-based livelihoods, and economic incentives towards income generation), contextual conditions (capacities and emerging challenges), intervening conditions (intervening agents, interventions, and intervention consequences), strategies (development of saffron value chain and serial entrepreneurship), and consequences (job and income diversification to achieve livelihood sustainability, the transformation of production arrangements based on the transition from independent family farming systems to the cooperative production system, increasing socio-economic resilience and in general, the realization of an entrepreneurial rural community).