...Brunna Sagioratto Coltro Oliveira; Alex Weymer; Pedro Piccoli; Simone Cristina Ramos Purpose The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship between training and financial performance in cooperative organizations. Design/methodology/approach To achieve this goal, the fixed-effect...

...Erwin Stoop; Taco Brandsen; Jan-Kees Helderman Purpose Most research into the relationship between social capital and cooperatives takes social capital as the independent variable and the cooperative as the dependent variable, but as yet the authors know little about causality in the other...

.../methodology/approach The nationally focused understanding of innovation processes leads the debate on rural development into a dilemma that this study seeks to sidestep via the concept of social innovation. Community cooperatives – a type of social enterprise that has increasingly emerged in rural areas...

... and interviews. Six categories were identified; each one is illustrated by one emblematic case. Findings The paper presents the evolution of economically oriented social organizations in Rwanda, mostly under the form of cooperatives and NGOs and with inspiration from traditional forms of mutual help...

...Carlos Quandt; Alex Ferraresi; Claudineia Kudlawicz; Janaína Martins; Ariane Machado Purpose This paper aims to analyze the main elements of the process of social innovation by using a case of a tourism cooperative created by an underprivileged community in Northeastern Brazil while assessing...