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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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Competitiveness in the Catalan agri‐food cooperatives: Internationalization–certification relationship32
Are governments bad entrepreneurs? On productivity and public ownership in Central European post‐Communist countries23
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Women self‐help groups and intra‐household decision‐making in agriculture18
Human development and decentralization: The importance of public health expenditure18
Effect of women's self‐help group participation on their financial inclusion measured through a women‐centric index: A study in North‐East India17
Strengthening local economies through social capital: The role of cooperative firms in driving economic growth in Italy13
Political spillovers of workplace democracy in Germany13
Cost–benefit analysis and ‘next best’ methods to evaluate the efficiency of social policies: As in pitching horseshoes, closeness matters11
Are cooperatives gender sensitive? A confirmatory and predictive analysis of women's collective entrepreneurship11
Cooperative identity as a yardstick for transformative change11
Impact of cooperative membership on market performance of Nepali goat farmers11
Prioritizing sustainability in agricultural marketing cooperative research: A bibliometric analysis11
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Does governance matter for the public debt–inflation relationship in developed countries? Panel quantile regression approach10
The economic potential of home sharing cooperatives for active ageing of older people9
Recent advances on impact measurement for the social and solidarity economy: Empirical and methodological challenges9
Improving member satisfaction with cooperatives: The role of participation in governance9
Managing goal conflict. The case of agency theory in the policy settings for public–private partnerships; A perspective on citizen and government interests.9
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Development, validation, and reliability of a measurement scale for investigating the principle of intercooperation8
What are the determinants affecting cooperatives’ profitability? Evidence from Spain8
Economic performance of rural collective‐owned cooperatives: Determinants and influence mechanism8
The indispensable function of agricultural cooperatives in South Sudan8
Drivers of depositor discipline in credit unions8
What factors influence the vertical integration of agricultural cooperatives?—Evidence from 500 cooperatives in Heilongjiang, China8
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 ad8
Occupational choice and entrepreneurship: From necessity to opportunity7
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Cooperative movement and widespread prosperity across Italian regions7
Cost‐benefit analysis to provide decision criteria: A case study of municipalities in Japan7
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Work integration ambitions of startups in the circular economy6
The role of farmer cooperatives in promoting environmentally sustainable agricultural development in China: A review6
Contractor default: Predictions, politics, and penalties in the procurement process6
The impact of joint liability lending on leveraging social capital6
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
Social impact measurement: An interpretive framework based on the economics of conventions and two French case studies6
Does cultural difference impede the allocation of government procurement? Evidence from China6
Intended and unintended effects of specialized regulation on microfinance institutions’ double‐bottom line management6
Participation and commercialization in producer cooperatives: Insights on the role of cooperative functioning and equity strategies6
Gender blindness in the ‘Next Generation European Union’ funds: Projects for Economic Recovery and Transformation social economy as an exception to the rule5
The effect of commitment in the public goods game with endogenous institution formation5
Unveiling the role of government support: Empirical studies on the performance of cooperatives in Vietnam5
False prosperity: Rethinking government support for farmers’ cooperatives in China5
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Does agricultural cooperative membership influence off‐farm work decisions of farm couples?4
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
The degree of cooperativism in Europe: Towards an evaluation model for cooperative banking4
Measuring the impact of sheltered workshops through the SROI: A case analysis in southern Spain4
‘It's Ours’: Understanding the aspects of ownership in financial cooperatives4
Understanding social impact assessment through Public Value Theory: A comparative analysis on WISEs in France and Denmark4
Improving dairy farmers’ welfare in Indonesia: Does cooperative membership matter?4
How do business associations support contract enforcement? Evidence from Hungary4
Cooperative membership and new technology adoption of family farms: Evidence from China4
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A population‐level approach to distributional weighting4
Possible welfare benefits of basic income support: Evidence from a benefit incidence analysis in South Africa4
Investigating the link between social cooperation sector and economic well‐being of Italian provinces through the lens of social capital4
Loan officer gender and loan repayment performance. Evidence from greenfield microfinance institutions in Cameroon14
Communication, principal–agent alignment and performance: Evidence from Brazilian agricultural co‐operatives4
Manager bonding and the technical efficiency of cooperative credit unions‐parametric and non‐parametric analyses4
Co‐creation of business models for smallholder forest farmers’ organizations: Lessons learned from rural Ethiopia and Tanzania4
Revenue diversification and municipally owned companies’ role in shaping the debt of municipalities4
The commitment of farmers to traditional and hybrid cooperatives: Empirical evidence over a six‐year period3
Instant lottery innovation, tax compliance and herd effects, an impact assessment in Brazil3
Cost–benefit analysis of landfill emergency securing: Two applications in Southern Italy3
Determinants of women's financial inclusion: Evidence from India3
Productivity drivers of infrastructure companies: Network industries utilizing economies of scale in the digital era3
How to eliminate the uncovered market: A duopoly model with government intervention3
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
Yield effects of agricultural cooperative membership in developing countries: A meta‐analysis3
The effect of trust and social pressure on member commitment in agricultural cooperatives – Evidence from China3
Towards the transformative social economy: Proposal of a system of indicators for cooperative social entrepreneurship3
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
Do risk and competition trigger conditional cooperation? Evidence from public good experiments3
SOEs' commitment to transparency: Voluntary disclosure as a driver of mandatory disclosure3
Extending the firm versus industry debate into social enterprises: A multilevel analysis on Spanish cooperatives 2008–20232
Do sustainable savings decisions through deposits and shares by members influence the choice of financial cooperatives?2
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Financial inclusion as a tool for sustainable macroeconomic growth: An integrative analysis2
Do mergers really increase output? Evidence from English hospitals2
Gender equality in the social and solidarity economy: Insights from Moroccan Sahrawi society2
The institutional shaping of third sector organizations: Empirical evidence from Italian provinces2
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
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Evaluating social impact in practice: Constructing a response to institutional demand in a French nonprofit organization2
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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
The frontier of social impact finance in the public sector: Theory and two case studies1
Can tax regulations moderate revenue diversification and reduce financial distress in nonprofit organizations?1
Cooperative employment in the regions of Spain (1999–2019): The convergence clubs1
Entry decision of a vertically integrated foreign firm with downstream subsidization and upstream privatization1
Sustainable finance: The role of savings and credit cooperatives in Ecuador1
The tax advantage of public firms over private firms in the German household solid waste disposal industry1
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Corruption and tax revenues: Evidence from Italian regions1
The entanglement of time and cost deviations in public projects1
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