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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Effects of cooperative membership on financial performance of banana farmers in China: A heterogeneous analysis	35
Performance of municipally owned corporations: Determinants and mechanisms	32
Which type of producer organization is (more) inclusive? Dynamics of farmers’ membership and participation in the decision‐making process	30
What is the influence of government programs on farmer organizations and their impacts? Evidence from Zambia	24
Cooperative identity as a yardstick for transformative change	24
Impact of cooperative membership on production efficiency of smallholder goat farmers in Nepal	20
Commons and cooperatives: A new governance of collective action	18
Does the legal form matter for firm performance in the MENA region?	11
Moderating effects of corruption and informality on the fiscal decentralization—economic growth nexus: Insights from OECD countries	11
Advances in agricultural cooperative research since 2007: A review of Chinese Agricultural Economics literature	11
Une analyse socio‐économique de la trajectoire institutionnelle de l'entreprise sociale : le cas de la Corée du Sud	11
Lean HRM practices in work integration social enterprises: Moving towards social lean production. Evidence from Italian case studies*	10
Factors affecting borrowers’ turnover in microfinance institutions: A panel evidence	10
What is the benefit of membership in farm producer organizations? The case of coffee producers in Peru	9
Elements of the institutionalization process of the forest and pasture commons in Romania as particular forms of social economy	8
When ‘uncertainty’ becomes ‘unknown’: Influences of economic uncertainty on the shadow economy	8
Technical assistance: A determinant of cooperative member loyalty	8
South Korean social enterprises and their networks: On their organizational linkages at the interstice between the third, public, and corporate sectors	8
Institutional and organizational trajectories in social economy enterprises: Resilience, transformation and regeneration	8
Corruption and tax revenues: Evidence from Italian regions	8
Reconciling different truths about isomorphic pressure and distinctive behavior at European cooperative banks: Back to the future with Raiffeisen's principles	8
Determinants of women's financial inclusion: Evidence from India	8
Cooperatives and economic growth in a developing country: The case of Nepal	8
The problem is the solution: Can permaculture management regenerate social economy enterprises?	7
Public good, collective action and financial regulation	7

Human development and decentralization: The importance of public health expenditure	7
Beyond focus: Exploring variability of service provision of agricultural cooperatives	7
Effect of board gender diversity on the financial performance of microfinance institutions: Does judicial efficiency matter?	6
Does agricultural cooperative membership influence off‐farm work decisions of farm couples?	6
Under pressure: Evolution of the social economy institutional recognition in the EU	6
Social and solidarity economy and social and solidarity commons: Towards the (re)discovery of an ethic of the common good?	6
The role of transformational leadership and leaders’ skills for new agricultural cooperatives in post‐soviet countries	6
Demonstrating public value to funders and other stakeholders—the journey of ELIXIR, a virtual and distributed research infrastructure for life science data	6
What do cooperative firms maximize, if at all? Evidence from Emilia‐Romagna in the pre‐Covid decade	6
Entry decision of a vertically integrated foreign firm with downstream subsidization and upstream privatization	6
Retail‐bank efficiency: Nonstandard goals and environmental determinants	5
Intercooperation, flexicurity and their impact on workers: The case of Fagor Electrodomésticos	5
The potential of land shareholding cooperatives for inclusive agribusiness development in Africa	5
Characterization of farmer‐based cooperative societies in the upper west region of Ghana	5
The signaling effect of ambidexterity of social enterprises on acquiring financial resources in South Korea	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
Biomed Europa: After the coronavirus, a public infrastructure to overcome the pharmaceutical oligopoly	5
Productivity drivers of infrastructure companies: Network industries utilizing economies of scale in the digital era	5
Trade misinvoicing effects on tax revenue in sub‐Saharan Africa: The role of tax holidays and regulatory quality	5
The learning mechanisms through public procurement for innovation: The case of government‐funded basic research organizations	5
The “business–territory” relationship of cooperative societies as compared to the conventional business sector in the region of Andalusia	5
Co‐operative enterprise anti‐cyclicality and the economic crisis: A comparative analysis of employment dynamics in Italy	4
Risk attitudes within farmer cooperative organizations: Evidence from China's fresh apple industry	4
Do credit unions have distinct objectives? Evidence from executive compensation structures	4
Firm innovation and local bank efficiency in Italy: Does the type of bank matter?	4
Human and social capital accumulation within research infrastructures: The case of CERN	4
Résilience d'une méta‐organisation : Le cas d'un commun de l'alimentation	4
Farmers’ organizations and sustainable development: An introduction	3
Cooperative conversion and communalization: Closely observed interactions between the material and the mental	3
Revenue diversification and municipally owned companies’ role in shaping the debt of municipalities	3
Trade unions and corporate social responsibility	3
E‐commerce adoption among Moroccan agricultural cooperatives: Between structural challenges and immense business performance potential	3
Ethical values in social economy for sustainable development	3
Can tax regulations moderate revenue diversification and reduce financial distress in nonprofit organizations?	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
Understanding social impact assessment through Public Value Theory: A comparative analysis on WISEs in France and Denmark	3
False prosperity: Rethinking government support for farmers’ cooperatives in China	3
Effect of deposit mobilization on the technical efficiency of rural saving and credit cooperatives: Evidence from Ethiopia	3
Governing a union's external stakeholders: A prioritization method based on relationship quality and perceived impact	3
Punishment mechanisms and cooperation in public goods games: Experimental evidence	3
Yield effects of agricultural cooperative membership in developing countries: A meta‐analysis	3
The increasing role and the diversity forms of Commons for production and preservation of essential goods and services	3
Towards the transformative social economy: Proposal of a system of indicators for cooperative social entrepreneurship	3
Do cooperative banks matter for new business creation? Evidence on Italian manufacturing industry	3
The entanglement of time and cost deviations in public projects	2
Evaluating the performance of local SoEs as output‐maximizing entities: The case of Friuli Venezia Giulia	2
Governance of interorganizational health emergency networks: Facing the Zika pandemic	2
The impact of the Italian Space Agency on scientific knowledge: Evidence from academic publications	2

Investigating the link between social cooperation sector and economic well‐being of Italian provinces through the lens of social capital	2
Eco‐innovation and environmental performance: Insights from Spanish wine companies	2
Exploring the attractiveness of social enterprises to job seekers: The role of perceived value fit and prestige	2
From scientific experiments to innovation: Impact pathways of a Synchrotron Light Facility	2
Cooperative movement and widespread prosperity across Italian regions	2
Loan officer gender and loan repayment performance. Evidence from greenfield microfinance institutions in Cameroon¹	2
Recent advances on impact measurement for the social and solidarity economy: Empirical and methodological challenges	2
Identifying the antecedents of opportunism in agri‐food cooperatives: a comparative analysis between first‐ and second‐tier cooperatives	2
Impact of farmer group participation on the adoption of sustainable farming practices—spatial analysis of New Zealand dairy farmers	2
Coping with side‐selling in cooperatives: A members’ perspective	2
Impact of cooperative membership on market performance of Nepali goat farmers	2
Entrepreneurial ecosystem for cooperatives: The case of Kyrgyz agricultural cooperatives	2
Financial inclusion as a tool for sustainable macroeconomic growth: An integrative analysis	2
Does cooperative membership enhance inorganic fertilizer use intensity? Panel data evidence from maize farmers in Ethiopia	2
Managing goal conflict. The case of agency theory in the policy settings for public–private partnerships; A perspective on citizen and government interests.	2
Do risk and competition trigger conditional cooperation? Evidence from public good experiments	2
Efficient performance by companies with mixed ownership: Privatization and divestiture of a vertically integrated public monopoly	2
Are cooperatives gender sensitive? A confirmatory and predictive analysis of women's collective entrepreneurship	2
Do farmers' professional cooperatives improve agricultural technical efficiency? Evidence using a national‐level dataset of China	1
Does it pay to cooperate? The case of cooperatives in the Mexican manufacturing sector	1
Intended and unintended effects of specialized regulation on microfinance institutions’ double‐bottom line management	1
Impact of collective action on household welfare: Empirical evidence from baobab collectors in Malawi	1
Measuring the impact of sheltered workshops through the SROI: A case analysis in southern Spain	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
Evaluating social impact in practice: Constructing a response to institutional demand in a French nonprofit organization	1
Corruption and corporate leverage in an emerging economy: The role of economic freedom	1
Does the mixed‐ownership reform improve the productivity of state‐owned enterprises? Evidence from companies listed in Chinese stock	1
The regulatory effect of cooperation degree in increasing tobacco farmers’ income by mitigating production risk shocks	1
The implications of deteriorating state‐owned enterprise performance on the South African economy	1
Co‐creation of business models for smallholder forest farmers’ organizations: Lessons learned from rural Ethiopia and Tanzania	1
The tax advantage of public firms over private firms in the German household solid waste disposal industry	1
Political spillovers of workplace democracy in Germany	1
Endogenous timing in a mixed duopoly under the optimal degree of privatization	1
Does the charter form lead to lower borrowing costs? Examining the case of California local governments	1
Occupational choice and entrepreneurship: From necessity to opportunity	1
The role of farmer cooperatives in promoting environmentally sustainable agricultural development in China: A review	1
The handicap for enhanced solidarity across advanced economies: The greater the economic openness higher the unequal distribution of income	1
Board‐level employee representative independence: Myth or reality? Theoretical analysis and empirical research—the case for Slovenia	1
Optimal emission taxation and the Porter hypothesis under Bertrand competition	1
Drivers of depositor discipline in credit unions	1
Managerial firms’ profitability, unions, and environmental taxes	1
Sustainable finance: The role of savings and credit cooperatives in Ecuador	1
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
Classifying the degree of cooperative multinationality: Case study of a French multinational cooperative	1
Contractor default: Predictions, politics, and penalties in the procurement process	1
Creating social value by empowering people: a social innovation perspective	1
How much of the world economy is state‐owned? Analysis based on the 2005–20 Fortune Global 500 lists	1
Cooperative membership and new technology adoption of family farms: Evidence from China	1
Do mergers really increase output? Evidence from English hospitals	1
Teachers’ views of corporate reputation: Influence on behavioral outcomes	1
Female leadership, internet use, and performance of agricultural cooperatives in Vietnam	1
Manager bonding and the technical efficiency of cooperative credit unions‐parametric and non‐parametric analyses	1
Centralized standards and local taxation in municipal waste management	1
The frontier of social impact finance in the public sector: Theory and two case studies	1