A Study on the Relationship between Co-operative-size and Governance system under market competition

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25380639
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Sociology
• Research Institution: Hiroshima University
• Principal Investigator: TANAKA Hideki 広島大学, 生物圏科学研究科, 教授 (90227166)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): KOBAYASHI HAZIME 広島大学, 大学院生物圏科学研究科, 助教 (40762779)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 農協 / 生協 / 事業類型 / 基礎組織 / ガバナンス構造

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Expanding business size of the co-operatives brought difficulty of the members control in recent global market. We sorted agricultural and consumers co-operatives by type, and examined the governance system by co-operative members.
Associated members of agricultural co-operatives have hold more than half the members, however they could not attend an annual meeting as a representative. Consumers co-operatives have become bigger than agricultural co-ops, and their members have had smaller representatives. The old basic unit of co-operatives have become dysfunctional, though they could not made alternative basic unit.

Free Research Field

食料市場学