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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Entrepreneurial ecosystem for cooperatives: The case of Kyrgyz agricultural cooperatives	44
Cross‐border cooperation: A response to the challenges facing agri‐food cooperatives in Southern European countries	31
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Are governments bad entrepreneurs? On productivity and public ownership in Central European post‐Communist countries	22
Creating social value by empowering people: a social innovation perspective	14
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Does the charter form lead to lower borrowing costs? Examining the case of California local governments	11
Women self‐help groups and intra‐household decision‐making in agriculture	11
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Entry decision of a vertically integrated foreign firm with downstream subsidization and upstream privatization	10
INDEX TO VOLUME 94–2023	10
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Cooperative employment in the regions of Spain (1999–2019): The convergence clubs	10
INDEX TO VOLUME 93–2022	10
Equity and fairness in the location of public facilities	9
E‐commerce adoption among Moroccan agricultural cooperatives: Between structural challenges and immense business performance potential	9
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The role of farmer cooperatives in promoting environmentally sustainable agricultural development in China: A review	8
Work integration ambitions of startups in the circular economy	8
How much of the world economy is state‐owned? Analysis based on the 2005–20 Fortune Global 500 lists	8
Do cooperative banks matter for new business creation? Evidence on Italian manufacturing industry	8
Impact of collective action on household welfare: Empirical evidence from baobab collectors in Malawi	8
Do outsourcing services provided by agricultural cooperatives affect technical efficiency? Insights from tobacco farmers in China	8
Measuring the impact of sheltered workshops through the SROI: A case analysis in southern Spain	7
Participation and commercialization in producer cooperatives: Insights on the role of cooperative functioning and equity strategies	7

Gender pay gap in the microfinance industry: A global perspective	7
Social impact measurement: An interpretive framework based on the economics of conventions and two French case studies	6
A parametric approach to institutional quality and bank cost inefficiency in diversity context: The case of Italy	6
Cooperative movement and widespread prosperity across Italian regions	6
Human development and decentralization: The importance of public health expenditure	6
Competitiveness in the Catalan agri‐food cooperatives: Internationalization–certification relationship	5
Effects of cooperative membership on financial performance of banana farmers in China: A heterogeneous analysis	5
Does dairy cooperative membership improve food and nutrition security among rural farmers? A micro‐perspective from Zambia	5
Are cooperatives gender sensitive? A confirmatory and predictive analysis of women's collective entrepreneurship	5
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How to eliminate the uncovered market: A duopoly model with government intervention	4
Classifying the degree of cooperative multinationality: Case study of a French multinational cooperative	4
Political spillovers of workplace democracy in Germany	4
Scaling strategies, organizational capabilities and scaling social impact: An investigation of social enterprises in China	4
Contractor default: Predictions, politics, and penalties in the procurement process	4
Factors affecting borrowers’ turnover in microfinance institutions: A panel evidence	4
From scientific experiments to innovation: Impact pathways of a Synchrotron Light Facility	4
Corruption and tax revenues: Evidence from Italian regions	4
Intended and unintended effects of specialized regulation on microfinance institutions’ double‐bottom line management	4
Cooperative identity as a yardstick for transformative change	4
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Ex‐ante socio‐economic impact assessment for a social science research infrastructure: The case of EuroCohort	4
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Strengthening local economies through social capital: The role of cooperative firms in driving economic growth in Italy	3
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Coping with side‐selling in cooperatives: A members’ perspective	3
Towards the transformative social economy: Proposal of a system of indicators for cooperative social entrepreneurship	3
The commercial growth of farmer cooperatives in Romania: A double‐hurdle model analysis	3
The role of transformational leadership and leaders’ skills for new agricultural cooperatives in post‐soviet countries	3
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(Farmer) Producer Companies in India as new generation cooperatives: Case studies of performance and impact from West Bengal, India	3
The entanglement of time and cost deviations in public projects	3
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Impact of cooperative membership on market performance of Nepali goat farmers	3
The potential of land shareholding cooperatives for inclusive agribusiness development in Africa	3
Does agricultural cooperative membership influence off‐farm work decisions of farm couples?	2
Impact of cooperative membership on production efficiency of smallholder goat farmers in Nepal	2
Neither market nor hierarchy—coordination costs in the allocation of track capacity in the Swedish railway network	2
Cost–benefit analysis of landfill emergency securing: Two applications in Southern Italy	2
The commitment of farmers to traditional and hybrid cooperatives: Empirical evidence over a six‐year period	2
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Understanding social impact assessment through Public Value Theory: A comparative analysis on WISEs in France and Denmark	2
The effect of trust and social pressure on member commitment in agricultural cooperatives – Evidence from China	2
False prosperity: Rethinking government support for farmers’ cooperatives in China	2
The tax advantage of public firms over private firms in the German household solid waste disposal industry	2
Cost–benefit analysis and ‘next best’ methods to evaluate the efficiency of social policies: As in pitching horseshoes, closeness matters	2
Does membership in seed producer cooperatives improve smallholders’ teff productivity? A comparative analysis in North Ethiopia	2

INDEX TO VOLUME 95–2024	2
Agricultural cooperative membership and welfare of maize farmers in Ethiopia: Insights from panel data analysis	2
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Revenue diversification and municipally owned companies’ role in shaping the debt of municipalities	2
Emission taxes for genuine altruistic firms	2
The effects of corporate social responsibility on member loyalty: The mediating effect of psychological ownership and customer citizenship behaviour in Korean consumer cooperatives	2
Professional traders’ individual and social preferences under risk: Does group's wealth matter?	2
Knowledge creation: new frontiers for public investment	1
Do risk and competition trigger conditional cooperation? Evidence from public good experiments	1
The effect of commitment in the public goods game with endogenous institution formation	1
Exploring the attractiveness of social enterprises to job seekers: The role of perceived value fit and prestige	1
Relationship between microfinance institutions' self‐sustainability and financing sources: Moderating role of external governance	1
The socio‐economic impact of certification schemes in conflict‐affected regions: The case of arabica coffee in the Eastern DRC	1
The increasing role and the diversity forms of Commons for production and preservation of essential goods and services	1
What is the influence of government programs on farmer organizations and their impacts? Evidence from Zambia	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
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When ‘uncertainty’ becomes ‘unknown’: Influences of economic uncertainty on the shadow economy	1
Possible welfare benefits of basic income support: Evidence from a benefit incidence analysis in South Africa	1
Cooperatives and economic growth in a developing country: The case of Nepal	1
Does governance matter for the public debt–inflation relationship in developed countries? Panel quantile regression approach	1
The frontier of social impact finance in the public sector: Theory and two case studies	1
Improving member satisfaction with cooperatives: The role of participation in governance	1
Efficient performance by companies with mixed ownership: Privatization and divestiture of a vertically integrated public monopoly	1
Intercooperation, flexicurity and their impact on workers: The case of Fagor Electrodomésticos	1
The resurrection of earlier imprints post mortem: Explaining the Turkish agricultural cooperative movement with an imprinting theory lens, 1888–1937	1
The implications of deteriorating state‐owned enterprise performance on the South African economy	1
Managing goal conflict. The case of agency theory in the policy settings for public–private partnerships; A perspective on citizen and government interests.	1
Co‐creation of business models for smallholder forest farmers’ organizations: Lessons learned from rural Ethiopia and Tanzania	1
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Do farmers' professional cooperatives improve agricultural technical efficiency? Evidence using a national‐level dataset of China	1
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Sustainable finance: The role of savings and credit cooperatives in Ecuador	1
Impact of farmer group participation on the adoption of sustainable farming practices—spatial analysis of New Zealand dairy farmers	1