CO - OPERATION AND AGRICULTURE (TAAVON)
Year:2017 | Volume:5 | Issue:20 |Papers Count:8

The aim of this study was to determine the type and size of the effect on selected cooperative sector indicators on the economic growth of various provinces. For this purpose, heteroskedasticity test in panel data-and autocorrelation techniques was utilized. A Panel Generalized Least Squares (PGLS) estimator was applied. According to the results, the significant positive impact of cooperatives on economic growth among provinces was evaluated and the elasticity of real per capita income to the number of cooperative enterprises 0. 10 was estimated. The facilities granted to homebased businesses have a significant and positive impact on the province's economic boom; though had small elasticity (0. 02). In contrast, facilities granted to the provinces to expand small and quick return enterprises had insignificant effect on real per capita income of provinces.

In this study, marketing barriers in production cooperatives of Dargaz Township was identified and prioritized using Entropy criterion and Likert scale. Statistical population consisted of all members of agricultural cooperatives in Dargaz Township in which 118 farmers were selected as the sample using Cochran formula. The validity was confirmed by Alpha Coefficient (a=0. 821). Results showed that the economic, management, human, market, operational and structural barriers had a positive and significant impact on the marketing system. Among these barriers, economic situation was identified as the first priority followed by human, market, operational, structural and management barriers respectively. Moreover, the role of intermediate agents and brokers in the sale of products (. /. 6435), lack of specialists in purchase ). (/. 4816) and inappropriate policies in pricing (. /. 4805) were the most important barriers among the sub-indices respectively.

Corporate environmental responsiveness (CER) refers to the extent to which organizations respond to natural environmental issues. The goal of this research was to investigate effective factors in CER of agricultural production cooperatives in Ilam Province, Iran. This was an applied research in terms of goal orientation and a descriptive-correlational study based on the method. The study population included 70 managers of agricultural production cooperatives in Ilam province. Census sampling method was applied in the study. For data collection, we used a closed-ended questionnaire. The face and content validity of the questionnaire were assessed by a panel of experts. Cronbach’ s alpha was calculated to estimate the reliability of the questionnaire (85%). The findings revealed that the mean CER was below average. Based on the analysis of the questionnaire items, corporate policies were based on waste removal had the highest priority. On the other hand, corporate policies were based on the use of recycled raw materials and natural environmental training/seminars were utilized for corporate employees and managers were ranked the lowest among CER items.

The main purpose of this study was to explain the farmer’ s attitudes and behavioral intention toward membership in water users’ cooperation in the South of Kharkhe Nur River in the Khuzestan province. This study used a mixed method. All farmers who their fields located in the South of Kharkhe Nur River (Area of construction, equipping and modernization of land of Dezh) considered as statistical population. In the qualitative sector, the researchers used depth observation in about 14 months in the research area and tried to have an accurate cognition about the area’ s context. Then, according to the result of qualitative research and also literature review a researcher made questionnaire was designed, which its validity and reliability confirmed by expert’ s panel and cronbach’ s alpha coefficient respectively. The data described and analyzed using SPSS V20. The results revealed that the farmers have positive attitudes towards water users’ cooperation and there was potential for establishing of the cooperation in the region. Also the results revealed that there was a positive association between attitude and behavioral intention of the farmers towards membership in the water users’ cooperatives.

The main objective of this study was to identify factors affecting the adoption of e-commerce by using Lee developed model in 1395. For conducting this research a survey method has been used. The research statistical population were cooperative board members, experts and cooperative offices in three Provinces of Isfahan, Hamedan and Tehran (N=1565) who were selected by Cochran formula and by the use of stratified sampling method (n=309) were selected as the sample. The instrument for collecting data was a standard questionnaire. Internal consistency was gained by a pilot test and cronbach's alpha was obtained. For data analysis statistical method such as hypotheses test through Structural equation by using Amos software ver. 18 have been used. The research results showed that understanding the concept of e-commerce, trust and user friendly application were the most effective factors.

A descriptive-analytical method was used to implement this research. Statistical method applied included path analysis using SPSS package in analyzing 6 effective factors (personal, psychological, educational, environmental, social and economic). In addition it researchers investigated the direct and indirect effects of these factors on the Creation of Cooperative’ s production and distribution of agricultural products in the Rural district of Gonabad Township. Findings indicated that all independent variables apart from the personal factors had direct effects on the Creation of Cooperative’ s production and distribution of agricultural products. The rest of the independent variables (psychological, educational, environmental, social and economic) had both direct and indirect effects and also a high correlation coefficient with the Creation of agricultural cooperatives. Therefore, the most significant effects of direct and indirect was related to the economic factors(. 514%) and the least significant indirect effects found on the Creation of Cooperative of production and distribution of Saffron production were related to the environmental factors(. 215%) and personal factors(. 235%).

The purpose of this research was to investigate educational and psychological factors affecting the entrepreneurship development in women rural cooperatives in Golestan province. This was a descriptive-correlative research. The statistical population of consisted of 1558 persons (all women that were members of rural cooperatives in Golestan province). Sample size was determined using Cochran formula and 276 persons completed the questionnaires. The research instrument was a questionnaire and its content validity was gained by a group of extension specialists. In order to investigate reliability of research questionnaire, 30 persons were randomly selected and completed the questionnaires. Also, Cronbach's alpha, ordinal theta and combination reliability were 0. 89, 0. 90 and 0. 87 respectively. The data analysis for descriptive and inferential statistics used the SPSSWin21 and LISREL (8/5) software. The results indicated that Entrepreneurship Development was influenced by both the educational and psychological factors. Psychological factors had the greatest impact on the development of women's entrepreneurship in rural cooperatives in Golestan (Path coefficient =0. 37). Also based on Completely Standardized Solution (CSS), of between apparent and latent variables, the highest effect on Entrepreneurship Development in women rural cooperatives in Golestan province was related to Changes in marketing methods for products supplied by the Cooperatives.