نشریه تعاون و کشاورزی
سال دوازدهم شماره 48 (زمستان 1402)

This study was conducted to study the performance of agricultural and industrial cooperatives in Zanjan province in the competitive market space.

Methodology/approach:

In this study, 157 agricultural cooperatives and 93 industrial cooperatives out of a total of 265 agricultural and 123 industrial active cooperatives were selected and analyzed by stratified sampling method. To assess the appropriateness of the competitiveness indicators of cooperative enterprises, four indices including economic, social-cultural, managerial and infrastructural-institutional indicators were examined and evaluated.

The results of this study showed that among the surveyed indicators, economic and infrastructure indicators play a more important role in the competitiveness of cooperative enterprises with an average value of 3.37 and 3.36, respectively. In addition, in terms of socio-cultural and managerial indicators, the challenges for industrial cooperatives are more than agricultural cooperatives, while infrastructure and institutional challenges are more in agricultural cooperatives compared to industrial cooperatives. In planning and policy sub-indicators; knowledge and awareness, experience and expertise; industrial cooperatives have more problems than agricultural cooperatives. Forming cooperatives, marketing, commercializing, modifying the law to comprehensively support cooperatives, enhancing culture in the society, creating and enhancing social capital and improving investment security and private investment play an important role in the competitiveness of agricultural and industrial cooperatives.

Previous studies have examined the status of agricultural or industrial cooperative enterprises, but this study simultaneously investigates and compares the situation of these enterprises in terms of competitiveness.

The most basic goal of cooperative companies of any type is to improve the economic status of the members of these companies. After the victory of the Islamic Revolution, the cooperatives of the country have grown tremendously physically and have provided the necessary grounds for the participation of the general public in various economic and social matters. State economic inadequacies and harmful consequences of the private economy make it necessary to pay more attention to cooperatives. In this research, upstream document analysis using the document analysis method has been used to determine the investment priorities of the city's development and construction cooperative companies. Then, according to the interviews conducted with the members of the development and construction cooperative companies of Rasht city, the cooperative organization, work and social welfare, the management of statistics and information, and the management and planning organization of Gilan province, the governor and prefect of the city, experts A university active in the field of Gilanology, investment opportunities were identified separately and analyzed using the document analysis technique and ranked using the Delphi technique. In the following, according to the output of the Delphi technique in line with strategic analysis, using the parental strategy, the priority of each of the identified projects of Rasht city is determined and the position of each of them according to the key success factors and cooperative capabilities in the matrix. Placement parents and necessary implementation suggestions have been provided.

Job creation should governments provide cooperatives with material and moral support and pave the way for job creation as one of the foundations of economic stability. This study aims to examine the situation of cooperatives benefiting from employment facilities is a rural stable in Ardabil province, the statistical population of which is rural cooperative companies active in Ardabil province. The results of interviews with 26 cooperatives receiving loans showed that 21 cooperatives were able to create employment in the cooperative after obtaining sustainable employment facilities, and this means a positive and effective impact of sustainable employment facilities, which is also the report and statistical data. Confirms that one of the other objectives of this study is to investigate the factors affecting the success and failure of cooperatives benefiting from sustainable rural employment facilities in Ardabil province, which were surveyed with a researcher-made questionnaire. In order to evaluate the reliability, we used Cronbach's alpha, which number 0.914 showed the reliability of the questionnaire used. This questionnaire was completed by 40 managers of cooperatives in the province and in four components to evaluate the factors affecting the performance and success of these cooperatives the use of factor analysis was discussed. According to the analysis of the results of the questionnaire, the component of improving participatory capabilities and motivational factors in the workplace has the greatest impact on the success and performance of rural cooperatives. The least score and impact has the improvement of internal management of cooperatives.

One of the basic axes of development is knowledge-oriented production activities. The high vulnerability of the agricultural sector, on one hand, and the high importance of this sector in providing food security, on the other hand, have caused agriculture in Iran to take a step towards becoming knowledge-based. In this regard, production cooperatives by consolidating small lands and applying correct management through the use of scientific methods and Tendency towards using new technology in production can provide the basis for increasing the productivity of this sector. Therefore, the current research was conducted with the aim of investigating the state of using new science and modern equipment in the agricultural sector and their effect on the efficiency of cooperatives.

In this study, the types of efficiency of 29 rural production cooperative companies in Mazandaran province are measured using Data Envelopment Analysis method. For this purpose, DEAP2.1 software is used.

The results show that only 17.24% of the investigated cooperatives are efficient in terms of technical and scale, 31.03% in terms of management, 6.90% in terms of allocation and economy. Also, there is a big gap (82.10%) between the technical efficiency of knowledge- based cooperatives and resource- based cooperatives, so it is suggested that the managers of cooperatives in this province should set the cooperatives of Amol as their model and trying in benefiting from new science and technology in production.

Increasing the access of all sections of society to the facilities of cooperatives has become a major policy focus in developing countries in recent years as a tool to increase productivity and living standards. The main goal of this research is to investigate the relationship between the facilities granted by the cooperative sector in creating job opportunities according to the development plans of the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare.

been studied.To test the hypotheses of the model Panel Data Used.After doing the test F Limer and Hausman to choose the right model, it was determined that the model is of fixed effects type.Therefore, regression with width was estimated from fixed origins .The data of all the provinces of the country during a period of 6 years (2017-2022) has

.The estimation results showed that all variables are compatible with economic theories in terms of signs.The facilities of the cooperative sector, the number of approved projects have had a positive and significant impact on the job opportunities created in the country. It was also found that the added value per capita of the provinces and the growth of the general price level had a positive and significant effect on the dependent variable.

In previous studies, facilities and credits are usually measured as a secondary variable in the success of cooperatives. In this research, the role of facilities in creating job opportunities in the provinces has been studied.

Agricultural cooperatives are an important tool for promoting agricultural modernization, which plays an important role in organizing the production of agricultural products. Therefore, there is a need to investigate effective ways to improve the quality of cooperative management for agricultural managers. The purpose of this research is to provide a model for improving the performance and competencies of agricultural cooperative managers with the theory approach.

Methodology/approach: 

This research is a descriptive study in terms of purpose, application, and in terms of data collection. The statistical population of the research were experts and managers of agricultural cooperatives. The data collection tool was a semi-structured interview. To investigate the validity of the qualitative part, the content validity and intra-coder and inter-coder reliability models were used. The method of data analysis was the grounded theoretical approach, which was compiled with MAXQDA software and used the coding method.

The research results showed that the competence model of agricultural cooperative managers consists of seven dimensions abilities, which include: entrepreneurship, awareness, thinking, career orientation, personality traits, knowledge and technology, and personal abilities.

Originality: 

Based on the perspective of competence, the results of this research enrich the management occupational competence by analyzing the combined effect of different competences of agricultural managers on the performance of cooperatives and provide ideas for building general industry competence models. The results of this study help to improve the performance and competencies of managers of agricultural cooperatives as an important influencing factor in cooperative performance.

cooperative and stock companies play an important role in the country's economy. On the other hand, one of the most important and extensive financial researches is the explanation of the return in these companies. In the financial literature, identifying the factors influencing the return has always been of great importance. Based on this, the aim of the current research is to model returns in agricultural cooperatives and companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange.The current research is a quantitative research that is practical in terms of the type of goal. Also, it belongs to the group of descriptive and survey research. The statistical population of the research is all the cooperative companies active in the field of agriculture and all the companies accepted in the Tehran Stock Exchange. It includes 154 stock exchange companies and 52 agricultural cooperative companies.The research results showed that in both types of cooperative and stock exchange companies, size, profitability and leverage have a significant relationship with return. In companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange; The sentiment factor has no significant relationship with the return. The profitability factor has a positive and significant relationship with the return. The factor of value, size and leverage has a negative and significant relationship with the return. In agricultural cooperative companies; company size, return on asset, current ratio have a significant and positive relationship with return, and leverage has a negative and significant relationship with the return.