Institutional innovations in co-operative sector of agrobusiness of foreign countries: demutualisation and hybrids | Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta – Tomsk State University Journal. 2009. № 325.

Institutional innovations in co-operative sector of agrobusiness of foreign countries: demutualisation and hybrids

The article provides a critical analysis of the literature that reveals the essence and the reasons of the process of conversion of co-operative forms of agrobusiness. The forms cooperative demutualisation in various countries are investigated, the general tendencies and contradictions, the external and internal factors causing this process are defined.

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the property rights, organisational structures, demutualisation, agricultural co-operatives, права собственности, организационные структуры, демутуализация, сельскохозяйственные кооперативы

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Name	Organization	E-mail
Deshkovskaya Nelly S.	Tomsk State University	nelly_d@ngs.ru; nellus@sibmail.com

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