OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
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Are governments bad entrepreneurs? On productivity and public ownership in Central European post‐Communist countries	27
Women self‐help groups and intra‐household decision‐making in agriculture	22
Competitiveness in the Catalan agri‐food cooperatives: Internationalization–certification relationship	20
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Political spillovers of workplace democracy in Germany	14
Human development and decentralization: The importance of public health expenditure	14
Effect of women's self‐help group participation on their financial inclusion measured through a women‐centric index: A study in North‐East India	14
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Are cooperatives gender sensitive? A confirmatory and predictive analysis of women's collective entrepreneurship	13
Strengthening local economies through social capital: The role of cooperative firms in driving economic growth in Italy	11
Impact of cooperative membership on market performance of Nepali goat farmers	11
Improving member satisfaction with cooperatives: The role of participation in governance	10
Does governance matter for the public debt–inflation relationship in developed countries? Panel quantile regression approach	10
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Cost–benefit analysis and ‘next best’ methods to evaluate the efficiency of social policies: As in pitching horseshoes, closeness matters	10
Cooperative identity as a yardstick for transformative change	10
Managing goal conflict. The case of agency theory in the policy settings for public–private partnerships; A perspective on citizen and government interests.	9
When ‘uncertainty’ becomes ‘unknown’: Influences of economic uncertainty on the shadow economy	8
What are the determinants affecting cooperatives’ profitability? Evidence from Spain	8
Recent advances on impact measurement for the social and solidarity economy: Empirical and methodological challenges	8
Knowledge creation: new frontiers for public investment	8
The implications of deteriorating state‐owned enterprise performance on the South African economy	8
Drivers of depositor discipline in credit unions	7

Occupational choice and entrepreneurship: From necessity to opportunity	7
Economic performance of rural collective‐owned cooperatives: Determinants and influence mechanism	7
Development, validation, and reliability of a measurement scale for investigating the principle of intercooperation	7
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Social impact measurement: An interpretive framework based on the economics of conventions and two French case studies	6
The indispensable function of agricultural cooperatives in South Sudan	6
An alternative organizational model for a more democratic and equitable digital economy: A systematic literature review on platform cooperativism through the lens of stakeholder theory. Competitive ad	6
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Demonstrating public value to funders and other stakeholders—the journey of ELIXIR, a virtual and distributed research infrastructure for life science data	6
Cost‐benefit analysis to provide decision criteria: A case study of municipalities in Japan	6
Cooperative movement and widespread prosperity across Italian regions	5
The role of farmer cooperatives in promoting environmentally sustainable agricultural development in China: A review	5
How much of the world economy is state‐owned? Analysis based on the 2005–20 Fortune Global 500 lists	5
The impact of joint liability lending on leveraging social capital	5
Do cooperative banks matter for new business creation? Evidence on Italian manufacturing industry	5
INDEX TO VOLUME 93–2022	5
Does cultural difference impede the allocation of government procurement? Evidence from China	5
Participation and commercialization in producer cooperatives: Insights on the role of cooperative functioning and equity strategies	5
Gender pay gap in the microfinance industry: A global perspective	5
Work integration ambitions of startups in the circular economy	5
Factors affecting borrowers’ turnover in microfinance institutions: A panel evidence	4
Does agricultural cooperative membership influence off‐farm work decisions of farm couples?	4
Possible welfare benefits of basic income support: Evidence from a benefit incidence analysis in South Africa	4
Co‐creation of business models for smallholder forest farmers’ organizations: Lessons learned from rural Ethiopia and Tanzania	4
The effect of commitment in the public goods game with endogenous institution formation	4
Contractor default: Predictions, politics, and penalties in the procurement process	4
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Revenue diversification and municipally owned companies’ role in shaping the debt of municipalities	4
Understanding social impact assessment through Public Value Theory: A comparative analysis on WISEs in France and Denmark	4
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Intended and unintended effects of specialized regulation on microfinance institutions’ double‐bottom line management	4
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False prosperity: Rethinking government support for farmers’ cooperatives in China	4
Improving dairy farmers’ welfare in Indonesia: Does cooperative membership matter?	4
Optimal emission taxation and the Porter hypothesis under Bertrand competition	3
How do business associations support contract enforcement? Evidence from Hungary	3
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Cost–benefit analysis of landfill emergency securing: Two applications in Southern Italy	3
The commitment of farmers to traditional and hybrid cooperatives: Empirical evidence over a six‐year period	3
Cooperative membership and new technology adoption of family farms: Evidence from China	3
Manager bonding and the technical efficiency of cooperative credit unions‐parametric and non‐parametric analyses	3
Loan officer gender and loan repayment performance. Evidence from greenfield microfinance institutions in Cameroon¹	3
Communication, principal–agent alignment and performance: Evidence from Brazilian agricultural co‐operatives	3
Towards the transformative social economy: Proposal of a system of indicators for cooperative social entrepreneurship	3
Measuring the impact of sheltered workshops through the SROI: A case analysis in southern Spain	3
Investigating the link between social cooperation sector and economic well‐being of Italian provinces through the lens of social capital	3
Vers une conception d’évaluation plurielle et collective de la mesure d'impacts de projets en ESS. Inscrire territoires et durabilité au cœur de la démarche	3
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Classifying the degree of cooperative multinationality: Case study of a French multinational cooperative	3
How to eliminate the uncovered market: A duopoly model with government intervention	3

The effect of trust and social pressure on member commitment in agricultural cooperatives – Evidence from China	2
Yield effects of agricultural cooperative membership in developing countries: A meta‐analysis	2
Punishment mechanisms and cooperation in public goods games: Experimental evidence	2
Impact of farmer group participation on the adoption of sustainable farming practices—spatial analysis of New Zealand dairy farmers	2
Entry decision of a vertically integrated foreign firm with downstream subsidization and upstream privatization	2
Financial inclusion as a tool for sustainable macroeconomic growth: An integrative analysis	2
Decentralization and welfare: Evidence from a panel of countries	2
Beyond conventional models: Lending by Native Community Development Financial Institutions	2
SOEs' commitment to transparency: Voluntary disclosure as a driver of mandatory disclosure	2
Do sustainable savings decisions through deposits and shares by members influence the choice of financial cooperatives?	2
Do mergers really increase output? Evidence from English hospitals	2
The institutional shaping of third sector organizations: Empirical evidence from Italian provinces	2
Do risk and competition trigger conditional cooperation? Evidence from public good experiments	2
Evaluating social impact in practice: Constructing a response to institutional demand in a French nonprofit organization	2
Neither market nor hierarchy—coordination costs in the allocation of track capacity in the Swedish railway network	2
Determinants of women's financial inclusion: Evidence from India	2
Productivity drivers of infrastructure companies: Network industries utilizing economies of scale in the digital era	2
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Teachers’ views of corporate reputation: Influence on behavioral outcomes	2
Beyond “make” or “buy”: Evaluating value‐for‐money in public service delivery	2
Can tax regulations moderate revenue diversification and reduce financial distress in nonprofit organizations?	2
Are there any differences in the corporate social responsibility strategy of fruit and vegetable production‐commercialization cooperatives and other companies operating in southeastern Spain?	1
Does dairy cooperative membership improve food and nutrition security among rural farmers? A micro‐perspective from Zambia	1
The entanglement of time and cost deviations in public projects	1
The role of the social economy as a transformative agent in labour markets: Contribution to the reduction of gender gaps in job quality	1
Is it more difficult to replace the volunteer directors of non‐profit organizations that have recourse to public funds? Evidence from France	1
Feminist economy and care cooperatives from a gender perspective: The experience of three Latin American countries	1
Sustainable finance: The role of savings and credit cooperatives in Ecuador	1
INDEX TO VOLUME 94–2023	1
INDEX TO VOLUME 95–2024	1
Cooperative employment in the regions of Spain (1999–2019): The convergence clubs	1
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Relationship between microfinance institutions' self‐sustainability and financing sources: Moderating role of external governance	1
Corruption and tax revenues: Evidence from Italian regions	1
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The tax advantage of public firms over private firms in the German household solid waste disposal industry	1
The frontier of social impact finance in the public sector: Theory and two case studies	1