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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Effects of cooperative membership on financial performance of banana farmers in China: A heterogeneous analysis	40
Cooperative identity as a yardstick for transformative change	31
What is the influence of government programs on farmer organizations and their impacts? Evidence from Zambia	28
Impact of cooperative membership on production efficiency of smallholder goat farmers in Nepal	22
Moderating effects of corruption and informality on the fiscal decentralization—economic growth nexus: Insights from OECD countries	12
Human development and decentralization: The importance of public health expenditure	12
Farmers’ organizations and sustainable development: An introduction	11
Determinants of women's financial inclusion: Evidence from India	11
What is the benefit of membership in farm producer organizations? The case of coffee producers in Peru	11
Yield effects of agricultural cooperative membership in developing countries: A meta‐analysis	11
Une analyse socio‐économique de la trajectoire institutionnelle de l'entreprise sociale : le cas de la Corée du Sud	10
Effect of board gender diversity on the financial performance of microfinance institutions: Does judicial efficiency matter?	10
Corruption and tax revenues: Evidence from Italian regions	10
When ‘uncertainty’ becomes ‘unknown’: Influences of economic uncertainty on the shadow economy	10
Factors affecting borrowers’ turnover in microfinance institutions: A panel evidence	10
Cooperatives and economic growth in a developing country: The case of Nepal	9
Does the legal form matter for firm performance in the MENA region?	9
Co‐operative enterprise anti‐cyclicality and the economic crisis: A comparative analysis of employment dynamics in Italy	9
Productivity drivers of infrastructure companies: Network industries utilizing economies of scale in the digital era	8
Firm innovation and local bank efficiency in Italy: Does the type of bank matter?	8
Entry decision of a vertically integrated foreign firm with downstream subsidization and upstream privatization	8
Public good, collective action and financial regulation	8
South Korean social enterprises and their networks: On their organizational linkages at the interstice between the third, public, and corporate sectors	8
Technical assistance: A determinant of cooperative member loyalty	8
Do credit unions have distinct objectives? Evidence from executive compensation structures	8

Eco‐innovation and environmental performance: Insights from Spanish wine companies	8
The role of transformational leadership and leaders’ skills for new agricultural cooperatives in post‐soviet countries	8
Elements of the institutionalization process of the forest and pasture commons in Romania as particular forms of social economy	8
Characterization of farmer‐based cooperative societies in the upper west region of Ghana	7
Intercooperation, flexicurity and their impact on workers: The case of Fagor Electrodomésticos	7
Beyond focus: Exploring variability of service provision of agricultural cooperatives	7
Does agricultural cooperative membership influence off‐farm work decisions of farm couples?	7
Social and solidarity economy and social and solidarity commons: Towards the (re)discovery of an ethic of the common good?	7
What do cooperative firms maximize, if at all? Evidence from Emilia‐Romagna in the pre‐Covid decade	6
Biomed Europa: After the coronavirus, a public infrastructure to overcome the pharmaceutical oligopoly	6
The potential of land shareholding cooperatives for inclusive agribusiness development in Africa	6
Demonstrating public value to funders and other stakeholders—the journey of ELIXIR, a virtual and distributed research infrastructure for life science data	6
Ethical values in social economy for sustainable development	6
Exploring the attractiveness of social enterprises to job seekers: The role of perceived value fit and prestige	5
False prosperity: Rethinking government support for farmers’ cooperatives in China	5
How much of the world economy is state‐owned? Analysis based on the 2005–20 Fortune Global 500 lists	5
Financial inclusion as a tool for sustainable macroeconomic growth: An integrative analysis	5
Trade unions and corporate social responsibility	5
The learning mechanisms through public procurement for innovation: The case of government‐funded basic research organizations	5
Revenue diversification and municipally owned companies’ role in shaping the debt of municipalities	5
Financial structure and cooperative efficiency: A pecking‐order evidence from sugarcane farmers in Eswatini	5
Do socially motivated self‐help groups perform better? Exploring determinants of micro‐credit groups’ performance in Eastern India	5
Human and social capital accumulation within research infrastructures: The case of CERN	4
Sustainable finance: The role of savings and credit cooperatives in Ecuador	4
Measuring the impact of sheltered workshops through the SROI: A case analysis in southern Spain	4
E‐commerce adoption among Moroccan agricultural cooperatives: Between structural challenges and immense business performance potential	4
Punishment mechanisms and cooperation in public goods games: Experimental evidence	4
Female leadership, internet use, and performance of agricultural cooperatives in Vietnam	4
Effect of deposit mobilization on the technical efficiency of rural saving and credit cooperatives: Evidence from Ethiopia	4
Do cooperative banks matter for new business creation? Evidence on Italian manufacturing industry	4
Governing a union's external stakeholders: A prioritization method based on relationship quality and perceived impact	4
Does cooperative membership enhance inorganic fertilizer use intensity? Panel data evidence from maize farmers in Ethiopia	4
Recent advances on impact measurement for the social and solidarity economy: Empirical and methodological challenges	4
Cooperative movement and widespread prosperity across Italian regions	4
Do outsourcing services provided by agricultural cooperatives affect technical efficiency? Insights from tobacco farmers in China	4
Drivers of depositor discipline in credit unions	4
Cooperative membership and new technology adoption of family farms: Evidence from China	3
Managing goal conflict. The case of agency theory in the policy settings for public–private partnerships; A perspective on citizen and government interests.	3
The increasing role and the diversity forms of Commons for production and preservation of essential goods and services	3
Coping with side‐selling in cooperatives: A members’ perspective	3
Creating social value by empowering people: a social innovation perspective	3
Decentralization and welfare: Evidence from a panel of countries	3
Exploring Draheim's three dimensions of success in cooperative organizations—the case of collective Alpine summer farms	3
The frontier of social impact finance in the public sector: Theory and two case studies	3
Understanding social impact assessment through Public Value Theory: A comparative analysis on WISEs in France and Denmark	3
Impact of collective action on household welfare: Empirical evidence from baobab collectors in Malawi	3
Can tax regulations moderate revenue diversification and reduce financial distress in nonprofit organizations?	3
Investigating the link between social cooperation sector and economic well‐being of Italian provinces through the lens of social capital	3
Impact of farmer group participation on the adoption of sustainable farming practices—spatial analysis of New Zealand dairy farmers	3
Towards the transformative social economy: Proposal of a system of indicators for cooperative social entrepreneurship	3

Social impact measurement: An interpretive framework based on the economics of conventions and two French case studies	3
Efficient performance by companies with mixed ownership: Privatization and divestiture of a vertically integrated public monopoly	2
Impact of cooperative membership on market performance of Nepali goat farmers	2
Classifying the degree of cooperative multinationality: Case study of a French multinational cooperative	2
Entrepreneurial ecosystem for cooperatives: The case of Kyrgyz agricultural cooperatives	2
Governance of interorganizational health emergency networks: Facing the Zika pandemic	2
Inclusive urban entrepreneurial ecosystem: An exploration of factors affecting organizational ambidexterity	2
The impact of the Italian Space Agency on scientific knowledge: Evidence from academic publications	2
The implications of deteriorating state‐owned enterprise performance on the South African economy	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?	2
Co‐creation of business models for smallholder forest farmers’ organizations: Lessons learned from rural Ethiopia and Tanzania	2
Political spillovers of workplace democracy in Germany	2
Are cooperatives gender sensitive? A confirmatory and predictive analysis of women's collective entrepreneurship	2
Loan officer gender and loan repayment performance. Evidence from greenfield microfinance institutions in Cameroon¹	2
Corruption and corporate leverage in an emerging economy: The role of economic freedom	2
What are the determinants affecting cooperatives’ profitability? Evidence from Spain	2
Do risk and competition trigger conditional cooperation? Evidence from public good experiments	2
Does governance matter for the public debt–inflation relationship in developed countries? Panel quantile regression approach	2
The entanglement of time and cost deviations in public projects	2
From scientific experiments to innovation: Impact pathways of a Synchrotron Light Facility	2
The role of farmer cooperatives in promoting environmentally sustainable agricultural development in China: A review	2
Does the mixed‐ownership reform improve the productivity of state‐owned enterprises? Evidence from companies listed in Chinese stock	2
Improving dairy farmers’ welfare in Indonesia: Does cooperative membership matter?	2
Identifying the antecedents of opportunism in agri‐food cooperatives: a comparative analysis between first‐ and second‐tier cooperatives	2
Do farmers' professional cooperatives improve agricultural technical efficiency? Evidence using a national‐level dataset of China	2
Is it more difficult to replace the volunteer directors of non‐profit organizations that have recourse to public funds? Evidence from France	1
The tax advantage of public firms over private firms in the German household solid waste disposal industry	1
How to eliminate the uncovered market: A duopoly model with government intervention	1
Ex‐ante socio‐economic impact assessment for a social science research infrastructure: The case of EuroCohort	1
Gender pay gap in the microfinance industry: A global perspective	1
Board‐level employee representative independence: Myth or reality? Theoretical analysis and empirical research—the case for Slovenia	1
The institutional shaping of third sector organizations: Empirical evidence from Italian provinces	1
A political economy of social impact measurement	1
Optimal emission taxation and the Porter hypothesis under Bertrand competition	1
The regulatory effect of cooperation degree in increasing tobacco farmers’ income by mitigating production risk shocks	1
Improving member satisfaction with cooperatives: The role of participation in governance	1
(Farmer) Producer Companies in India as new generation cooperatives: Case studies of performance and impact from West Bengal, India	1
Intended and unintended effects of specialized regulation on microfinance institutions’ double‐bottom line management	1
Endogenous timing in a mixed duopoly under the optimal degree of privatization	1
Women self‐help groups and intra‐household decision‐making in agriculture	1
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	1
Occupational choice and entrepreneurship: From necessity to opportunity	1
Do mergers really increase output? Evidence from English hospitals	1
Managerial firms’ profitability, unions, and environmental taxes	1
Centralized standards and local taxation in municipal waste management	1
The socio‐economic impact of certification schemes in conflict‐affected regions: The case of arabica coffee in the Eastern DRC	1
The effect of trust and social pressure on member commitment in agricultural cooperatives – Evidence from China	1
Contractor default: Predictions, politics, and penalties in the procurement process	1
Scaling strategies, organizational capabilities and scaling social impact: An investigation of social enterprises in China	1
Work integration ambitions of startups in the circular economy	1
Does the charter form lead to lower borrowing costs? Examining the case of California local governments	1
Classification of co‐operative member shares as equity or liabilities: The case of consumer co‐operatives in South Korea	1
Teachers’ views of corporate reputation: Influence on behavioral outcomes	1
Evaluating social impact in practice: Constructing a response to institutional demand in a French nonprofit organization	1
Terms of trade volatility and tax revenue in Sub‐Saharan African countries	1
Manager bonding and the technical efficiency of cooperative credit unions‐parametric and non‐parametric analyses	1