Journal of Cooperatives

The Journal of Cooperatives is a referred journal published by the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives. Its purpose is to encourage research on issues of importance to U.S. cooperatives and to provide a forum for the review and exchange of research results among individuals in universities, cooperatives, and government.

National Council of Farmer Cooperatives 50 F Street, NW, Suite 900 Washington, DC 20001 Phone: 202-626-8700 Fax: 202-626-8722

Journal of Cooperatives

(Articles, Invited Paper, Book Review, etc.)

Volume 14, 1999 Volume 13, 1998 Volume 12, 1997 Volume 11, 1996 Volume 10, 1995 Volume   9, 1994 Volume   8. 1993

Volume 7, 1992 Volume 6, 1991 Volume 5, 1990 Volume 4, 1989 Volume 3, 1988 Volume 2, 1987 Volume 1, 1986

ARTICLES

• Comparing Alternative Closed Swine Production Cooperatives: Adding Value to Corn Under Uncertainty

    Michael C. Poray and Roger G. Ginder

• A Portfolio Approach to Cooperative Price Risk Management

    Ole Gjolberg and Merie Steen

• Cooperative Performance- Is There a Dilemma?

    Abigail M. Hind

• Cooperative Organizational Strategies: A Neo-Institutional Digest

    Jeffrey S. Royer

• The NFO-A Farm Belt Rebel by Donald Muhm

     Michael Turner
 

ARTICLES

• Evolution of Cooperative Thought, Theory, and Purpose

    Randall E. Torgerson, Bruce J. Reynolds, and Thomas W. Gray

NOTE: An earlier version of this paper was presented at the conference on "Cooperatives: Their Importance in the Future of the Food and Agricultural System," Food and Agricultural Marketing Consortium, Las Vegas, NV, January 16-17, 1997.
 

• Principal-Agent Relationships in Agricultural Cooperatives: An Empirical Analysis from Rural Alberta

    Timothy J. Richards, K. K. Klein, and A. Walburger

• Managerial Compensation in Midwestern Cooperatives: Results from a Follow-up Study

    Robert P. King, David D. Trechter, and David Cobia

• The Impact of LLCs on Cooperatives: Bane, Boon or Non-Event?

    Donald A. Frederick

ARTICLES

• Federated Structures for Cooperative Growth

    James M. Carman
 
• The Performance of Agricultural Marketing Cooperatives in Differentiated Product Markets

    Ronald W. Cotterill
 
• State Cooperative Councils: What are the Local Member Cooperatives Looking For?

    Joan R. Fulton and Michael Keenan
 
• Individual Patron Preferences, Collective Choice, and Cooperative Equity Revolvement Practices

    Jeffrey S. Royer and M. L. Mohamad Shihipar

• Inertia in Cooperative Remodeling

    Kerker Nilsson

• Seizing Control: The International Market Power of Cooperatives by Lee Egerstrom, Pieter Bos, and Gert van Dijk

     Allen Gerber
 
• Cooperation Works! By E.G. Nadeau and David Thompson

    Myron Just

ARTICLES

• Strategic Alliance and Joint Venture Agreements in Grain Marketing Cooperatives

    Joan R. Fulton, Michael P. Popp, and Carolyn Gary
 
• New Generation Cooperatives and Cooperative Theory

    Andrea Harris, Brenda Stefanson, and Murray Fulton
 
• Debt Covenant Violations of Private Lending Agreements of Agricultural Cooperatives

    Frank Michael Messina
 
• Sources of Financial Stress in Agricultural Cooperatives

    Lynn G. Moller, Allen M. Featherstone, and David G. Barton

• The Transformation of Hungarian Production Cooperatives and the Consequences for the Future

    Erzsebet Toth, Gyula Varga, and Philip L. Paarlberg

• The Nature of Cooperation, by Jack Craig

    Thomas W. Gary

ARTICLES

• Valuation of Transferable Delivery Rights for Marketing Cooperatives

    Charles V. Moore and Jay E. Noel
 
• The Distributional Impacts of Non-Uniform Pricing Schemes for Cooperatives

    Murray Fulton and James Vercammen
 
• Forward Integration by Farmer Cooperatives: Comparative Incentives and Impacts

    Jeffrey S. Royer and Saryib Bhuyan
 
• Executive Compensation Patterns and Practices in Minnesota and Wisconsin Cooperatives

    David D. Trechter and Robert P. King
 
• Dairy Farmer’s Valuation of Market Security Offered by Milk Marketing Cooperatives

    Cathy A. Smith and Brain A. Roach

• Cooperative Enterprise and Organization Theory

    Peter Helmberger and Sidney Hoos
 
• Cooperative Enterprise and Organization Theory: An Appraisal

    V. James Rhodes
 
• A Perspective on Helmberger and Hoo’s Theory of Cooperatives

    Richard J. Sexton

ARTICLES

• Agricultural Cooperatives and Market Performance in Food Manufacturing

    Richard T. Rogers and Lisa M. Petraglia
 
• Financial Appraisal of the Banks for Cooperatives

    Richard N. Weldon, Endah Srinarni, Charles B. Moss, and John J. Van Sickle
 
• Toward an Organizational Theory of Membership Structural Design

    Thomas W. Gray and Gillian Butler

• The Role of Management Behavior in Agricultural Cooperatives

    Michael L. Cook
 
• The Role of Management Behavior in Agricultural Cooperatives: Discussion

    Bruce L. Anderson
 
• The Role of Management Behavior in Agricultural Cooperatives: Discussion

    Mahlon Lang

• Economic Nature of the Cooperative Association

    Richard Phillips

• A Comment on Phillips' Economic Nature of the Cooperative Association"

    John M. Staatz

• Economic Nature of the Cooperative Association: A Perspective Appraisal

    Jeffrey S. Royer

ARTICLES

• Risk and Equity in Agricultural Cooperatives

    Claudia Parliament and Zvi Lerman

• What Do We Know About the Economic Efficiency of Cooperatives: An Evaluative Survey

    Richard J. Sexton and Julie Iskow
 
• Formula Price Contracts as an Alternative to Forward Integration by Farmer Cooperatives

    Jeffrey S. Royer and Sanjib Bhuyan
 
• Factors that Influence the Commitment of Members to Their Cooperative Organization

    Joan R. Fulton and Wiktor L. Adamowicz
 
• Origins of a Current Conflict? An Examination of Stock-Nonstock Cooperative Law

    Diane Rizzuto Suhler and Michael L. Cook

• The Mission of the Agricultural Cooperative Service: Commitments, Crises, and Possible Futures

    Randall E. Torgerson
 
• ACS Mission and Clientele: Perspective of a Former Adminstrator

    Ronald D. Knutson
 
• The Mission of the Agricultural Cooperative Service: A Discussion

    Bernard L. Sanders

• True Farmer Cooperation; Reprint for World's Work, May 1923

    Aaron Sapiro
 
• Aaron Sapiro's Theory of Cooperatives: A Contemporary Assessment

    Royer G. Ginder
 
• A Comment on Sapiro's "True Farmer Cooperation"

    Leon Garoyan

ARTICLES

• Cooperative and Investor-Oriented Firm Efficiency: A Multiproduct Analysis

    Jay T. Akridge and Thomas W. Hertel
 
• The Role of Cooperatives in Commnunities: Examples from Saskatchewan

    Murrary Fulton and Lou Hammond Ketilson
 
• Net Income Effects of Cooperative Peanut Marketing in Haiti

    Lumane Pluviose and Cathy A. Hamlett
 
• Public Limited Companies and Cooperative Principles in Ireland's Dairy Sector

    Robert E. Jacobson

• The Economic Role and Limitations of Cooperatives: An Investment Cash Flow Derivation

    H. Christopher Peterson

• Cooperative Principles and Equity Financing: A Critical Discussion

    Jeffrey S. Royer
 
• Cooperative Principles and Equity Financing: A Discussion of a Critical Discussion

    Michael L. Cook

• The Place of the Cooperative in Our National Economy

Reprint from American Cooperation 1942 to 1945
    Edwin G. Nourse
 
• Comment

    Joseph D. Coffey
 
• E.G. Nourse's Place in Contemporary Cooperative Theory and Practice

    Ronald W. Cotterill

• Dairy Co-op Issues in Ireland by Robert E. Jacobson and Con O'Leary

    David G. Barton
 
• Co-operatives and Community Development: Economics in Social Perspective by Brett Fairbairn, June Bold, Murrary Fulton, Lou Hammond Ketilson, Daniel Ish

    Harold G. Love
 
• Farmers, Cooperatives, and USDA: A History of Agricultural Cooperative Service by Wayne D. Rasmussen

    Walter J. Armbruster and R. J. Hildreth

ARTICLES

• Can Cooperative Movements Be Successful in Traditional Societies?: The Case of Southern Senegal

    Curtis M. Jolly
 
• Management Practices and Financial Performance of Agricultural Cooperatives: A Partial Adjustment Model

    Azzeddine M. Azzam and Michael Turner
 
• A Comparative Financial Ratio Analysis of U.S. Farmer Cooperatives Using Nonparametric Statistics

    Jeffrey S. Royer
 
• An Analysis of Major Farm Characteristics and Farmers' Use of Cooperatives

    James J. Wadsworth
 
• Information System Adoption and Use in Local Cooperatives

    Robert P. King and Iain G. Shuker
 
• Structural Change and Performance of Grain Marketing Cooperatives

    Reynold P. Dahl
 
• Charting from within a Grounded Concept of Member Control

    Thomas W. Gray and Gillian Butler

• The Fall of the Farm Credit Empire by Ben Sunbury

    Chester B. Baker
 
• The First 20 years: The Story of Mid-America Dairymen by James L. Reeves

    Leo V. Blakley
 
• Building Markets and People Cooperatively: The Lake to Lake Story by Truman Torgerson

    Robert A. Cropp

ARTICLES

• Performance of Cooperatives and Investor-Owned Firms in the Dairy Industry

    Claudia Parliament, Zvi Lerman, and Joan Fulton
 
• Assessing the Effectiveness of Farm Supply Cooperatives: A Comparison of Farmer and Manager Viewpoints

    Larry Burt and M. E. Wirth
 
• Factors Associated with the Selection of Cooperative vs. Proprietary Handlers of Milk in Tennessee

    Kim Jensen
 
• An Analysis of Consolidation for the Farm Supply Sector

    William J. Talyor and Larry L. Vogler
 
• The Allied-Heublein Joint Venture

    Willard F. Mueller

• Food Manufacturing Activities of the Largest Agricultural Cooperatives: Market Power and Strategic Behavior Implications

    Richard T. Rogers and Bruce W. Marion

• The Cooperative Story, produced by the American Institute of Cooperation

    David W. Cobia
 
• AGRIBIZ/FINPLAN, CoopSim, and COST-AL

    Robert D. Dahle

ARTICLES

• Cooperatives in Oligopolistic Industries: The Western Canadian Fertilizer Industry

    Murray Fulton
 
• The Cooperative-Corporate Interface: Interfirm Contact Through Membership on Boards of Directors

    Julie A. Caswell
 
• Pool Payment Equity in Agricultural Marketing Cooperatives

    Steven T. Buccola, James C. Cornelius, and Ron R. Meyersick
 
• Equity Capital and Restructuring of Cooperatives as Investor-Oriented Firms

    Lee F. Schrader
 
• Alternatives for Handling Losses in Cooperatives

    David. G. Barton
 
• Farm Supply Cooperatives: Specialized Inputs, Exchange Arrangements, and Economic Coordination

    John J. Haydu and John M. Staatz
 
• Cooperative and Proprietary Firm Performance as Viewed by Their Customers

    Jarvis L. Cain, Ulrich C. Toensmeyer, and Stewart Ramsey
 
• De-emphasis on Cooperatives in Introductory Economics Textbooks

    Lori Lynch, Marilee Urban, and Robert Sommer

• The Sunkist Case: A Study in Legal-Economic Analysis by Willard F. Muller, Peter G. Helmberger, and Thomas W. Paterson

    Leo C. Polopolus

ARTICLES

• Membership Policy Alternative for Marketing Cooperatives

    Thomas L. Sporleder
 
• Socioeconomic and Technical Characteristics of New England Dairy Cooperative Members and Nonmembers

    Boris E. Bravo-Ureta and Tsoung-Chao Lee
 
• Relationship of Pooling to Equity Capital and Current Assets of Large Producer Marketing Cooperatives

    Thomas L. Sporleder, William M. Malick, and Cynthia H. Tough
 
• An Evaluation of Equity Redemption Alternatives in Centralized Cooperatives

    David G. Barton and Royce L. Schmidt
 
• Optimal Equity Recovery for a Cooperative Financial Institution

    Loren W. Tauer and Alfons Weersink
 
• Evaluation of Restructuring Alternatives for the Banks for Cooperatives

    John A. Hopkin, Thomas . Sporleder, Daniel I. Padberg, and Ronald D. Knutson

• Basic Cooperative Principles and Their Relationship to Selected Practices

    John R. Dunn
 
• The Role of Cooperatives in Agriculture: Historic Remnant or Viable Membership Organization?

    Terence J. Centner

• Cooperatives in Agriculture, edited by David W. Cobia

    Frank J. Smith

ARTICLES

• Democratic Control and Cooperative Decision Making: A Conceptual Framework

    Bruce L. Anderson
 
• Evaluating a New Payment System for a Processing Cooperative

    Rigoberto A. Lopez and Thomas H. Spreen
 
• Cost-of-Service vs. Uniform Pricing in a Cooperative Feed Manufacturing and Distribution System

     Keith K. Menzie, Paul V. Preckel, and Lee F. Schrader
 
• Processing Costs, Labor Efficiency, and Economies of Size in Cooperatively Owned Fluid Milk Plants

     Cameron S. Thraen, David E. Hahn, and James B. Roof

• Policy Considerations Related to Further Intervention in the Farm Credit System

      Neil E. Hart
 
• Recent Developments in the Theory of Agricultural Cooperation

     John M. Staatz
 
• Cooperatives, Securities Violations, and Advisor Liabilities: A Case Study

     Lucy Ann Wiggins

• Co-operative Principles: Today and Tomorrow by W. P. Watkins

    Thomas W. Gray
 
• The Contemporary Director: A Handbook for Elected Officials by Harold E. Chapman, Douglas A. Holland, Sean D. Kenny, and others

    Frank W. Groves

ARTICLES

• Guaranteeing a Market and the Contracts of Bargaining Cooperatives

    Charles R. Knoeber and David L. Baumer
 
• An Improved Credit Scoring Function for the St. Paul Banks for Cooperatives

    Martin L. Fischer and Karen Moore
 
• Effects of Federal Taxes on Member Cash Flows From Patronage Refunds

    Katie A. Junge and Roger G. Ginder
 
• U.S. Cooperatives and the Potential for Grain Exports to Eastern Europe

    Arvin R. Bunker and James R. Jones

• Member Control Mechanisms From Western Europe

    Thomas W. Gray
 
• Expulsion of Members by Agricultural Cooperatives

    John D. Copeland

• Agricultural Cooperatives - Their Why and Their How by Glynn McBride

    James R. Russell