Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics

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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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Competitiveness in the Catalan agri‐food cooperatives: Internationalization–certification relationship37
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Human development and decentralization: The importance of public health expenditure23
Women self‐help groups and intra‐household decision‐making in agriculture21
Are governments bad entrepreneurs? On productivity and public ownership in Central European post‐Communist countries20
Political spillovers of workplace democracy in Germany19
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Strengthening local economies through social capital: The role of cooperative firms in driving economic growth in Italy15
Prioritizing sustainability in agricultural marketing cooperative research: A bibliometric analysis14
Effect of women's self‐help group participation on their financial inclusion measured through a women‐centric index: A study in North‐East India13
Cost–benefit analysis and ‘next best’ methods to evaluate the efficiency of social policies: As in pitching horseshoes, closeness matters13
Impact of cooperative membership on market performance of Nepali goat farmers12
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Cooperative identity as a yardstick for transformative change11
The economic potential of home sharing cooperatives for active ageing of older people11
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Pathways to women's empowerment and social inclusion through cooperative entrepreneurship: Insights from Morocco11
Are cooperatives gender sensitive? A confirmatory and predictive analysis of women's collective entrepreneurship11
How sustainable are the farmer producer companies (FPCs) in India?—Unravelling the determinants of farmers’ perceptions through multivariate analyses10
Does governance matter for the public debt–inflation relationship in developed countries? Panel quantile regression approach10
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Improving member satisfaction with cooperatives: The role of participation in governance10
Recent advances on impact measurement for the social and solidarity economy: Empirical and methodological challenges9
What factors influence the vertical integration of agricultural cooperatives?—Evidence from 500 cooperatives in Heilongjiang, China9
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What are the determinants affecting cooperatives’ profitability? Evidence from Spain9
Managing goal conflict. The case of agency theory in the policy settings for public–private partnerships; A perspective on citizen and government interests.9
The indispensable function of agricultural cooperatives in South Sudan8
Development, validation, and reliability of a measurement scale for investigating the principle of intercooperation8
Occupational choice and entrepreneurship: From necessity to opportunity8
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The role of the non‐profit sector in the efficiency of elderly social services: A bootstrap data envelopment analysis study8
Economic performance of rural collective‐owned cooperatives: Determinants and influence mechanism8
Cost‐benefit analysis to provide decision criteria: A case study of municipalities in Japan7
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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 ad7
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How much of the world economy is state‐owned? Analysis based on the 2005–20 Fortune Global 500 lists6
Gender pay gap in the microfinance industry: A global perspective6
Unveiling the role of government support: Empirical studies on the performance of cooperatives in Vietnam6
Does cultural difference impede the allocation of government procurement? Evidence from China6
Work integration ambitions of startups in the circular economy6
Gender blindness in the ‘Next Generation European Union’ funds: Projects for Economic Recovery and Transformation social economy as an exception to the rule6
Social impact measurement: An interpretive framework based on the economics of conventions and two French case studies6
Cooperative movement and widespread prosperity across Italian regions6
Participation and commercialization in producer cooperatives: Insights on the role of cooperative functioning and equity strategies6
The role of farmer cooperatives in promoting environmentally sustainable agricultural development in China: A review6
The impact of joint liability lending on leveraging social capital6
Contractor default: Predictions, politics, and penalties in the procurement process5
Does agricultural cooperative membership influence off‐farm work decisions of farm couples?5
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Co‐creation of business models for smallholder forest farmers’ organizations: Lessons learned from rural Ethiopia and Tanzania5
‘It's Ours’: Understanding the aspects of ownership in financial cooperatives5
Understanding social impact assessment through Public Value Theory: A comparative analysis on WISEs in France and Denmark5
Intended and unintended effects of specialized regulation on microfinance institutions’ double‐bottom line management5
False prosperity: Rethinking government support for farmers’ cooperatives in China5
Revenue diversification and municipally owned companies’ role in shaping the debt of municipalities4
Improving dairy farmers’ welfare in Indonesia: Does cooperative membership matter?4
A population‐level approach to distributional weighting4
How do business associations support contract enforcement? Evidence from Hungary4
The effect of commitment in the public goods game with endogenous institution formation4
Manager bonding and the technical efficiency of cooperative credit unions‐parametric and non‐parametric analyses4
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 démarche4
Entry resources and the survival of worker‐owned firms4
Possible welfare benefits of basic income support: Evidence from a benefit incidence analysis in South Africa4
Loan officer gender and loan repayment performance. Evidence from greenfield microfinance institutions in Cameroon14
The degree of cooperativism in Europe: Towards an evaluation model for cooperative banking4
The commitment of farmers to traditional and hybrid cooperatives: Empirical evidence over a six‐year period3
Neither market nor hierarchy—coordination costs in the allocation of track capacity in the Swedish railway network3
Beyond conventional models: Lending by Native Community Development Financial Institutions3
Measuring the impact of sheltered workshops through the SROI: A case analysis in southern Spain3
Instant lottery innovation, tax compliance and herd effects, an impact assessment in Brazil3
Classifying the degree of cooperative multinationality: Case study of a French multinational cooperative3
Impact of farmer group participation on the adoption of sustainable farming practices—spatial analysis of New Zealand dairy farmers3
How to eliminate the uncovered market: A duopoly model with government intervention3
Cooperative membership and new technology adoption of family farms: Evidence from China3
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Cost–benefit analysis of landfill emergency securing: Two applications in Southern Italy3
Towards the transformative social economy: Proposal of a system of indicators for cooperative social entrepreneurship3
The effect of trust and social pressure on member commitment in agricultural cooperatives – Evidence from China3
Communication, principal–agent alignment and performance: Evidence from Brazilian agricultural co‐operatives3
Are informal shoe‐shiners inclined to transmute into a formal sector?—An exploratory study in Hawassa City, Ethiopia3
Yield effects of agricultural cooperative membership in developing countries: A meta‐analysis2
SOEs' commitment to transparency: Voluntary disclosure as a driver of mandatory disclosure2
Do sustainable savings decisions through deposits and shares by members influence the choice of financial cooperatives?2
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Evaluating social impact in practice: Constructing a response to institutional demand in a French nonprofit organization2
Determinants of women's financial inclusion: Evidence from India2
Gender equality in the social and solidarity economy: Insights from Moroccan Sahrawi society2
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Beyond “make” or “buy”: Evaluating value‐for‐money in public service delivery2
Mapping the relevance and influence of gender in social economy enterprises: A review based on bibliographic analysis2
Productivity drivers of infrastructure companies: Network industries utilizing economies of scale in the digital era2
Extending the firm versus industry debate into social enterprises: A multilevel analysis on Spanish cooperatives 2008–20232
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Can tax regulations moderate revenue diversification and reduce financial distress in nonprofit organizations?1
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Do mergers really increase output? Evidence from English hospitals1
The entanglement of time and cost deviations in public projects1
Corruption and tax revenues: Evidence from Italian regions1
Financial inclusion as a tool for sustainable macroeconomic growth: An integrative analysis1
Does dairy cooperative membership improve food and nutrition security among rural farmers? A micro‐perspective from Zambia1
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The role of the social economy as a transformative agent in labour markets: Contribution to the reduction of gender gaps in job quality1
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
Entry decision of a vertically integrated foreign firm with downstream subsidization and upstream privatization1
The institutional shaping of third sector organizations: Empirical evidence from Italian provinces1
Cooperative employment in the regions of Spain (1999–2019): The convergence clubs1
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