{"id":1580,"date":"2020-10-20T09:23:33","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T07:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.solidaritate.eu\/?page_id=1580"},"modified":"2020-10-20T09:23:35","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T07:23:35","slug":"case-studies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.solidaritate.eu\/index.php\/english\/activities\/projects\/cooperformance-en\/case-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Case studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"tlid-translation translation\" lang=\"ro\">Cooperative and Other Rural Associative Enterprises \u2013 Case Studies<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>A set of 14 case studies (4 for Spain, 4 for Germany and 6 for Romania) gathering best practices related to farmers\/producers cooperatives \u00a0in the involved countries \u2013 in different sectors &#8211; vegetal, vegetables, fruits, dairy, etc. and with different functions &#8211; marketing, credit, insurance, procurement, etc. depending and competitiveness factor are developed in the project.<\/p>\n<p>The case studies have as learning objectives: coop start-up \/ setup processes (deciding the issue \/ problem to address, vision, mission of the organization, identifying and getting the relevant stakeholders around the table, legal form), managing a coop, designing and planning the business, services and products and their relation to member\/ clients\/ owners need and social economic interests, target market\/s, revenue streams.<\/p>\n<p>The case studies cover for each cooperative the context and history of the enterprise, the socio-economic context and historical background, the sector\/s of activity and location, life cycle phases and more specifically:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Conditions which allowed start up and founding as well as implementation<\/li>\n<li>Organizational design\u2014legal form, governance models, stakeholders, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Growth and expansion, focusing on the various resources (finance, voluntary, etc.) mobilized at each stage; crisis and how were these resolved\/addressed;<\/li>\n<li>Core business model &#8211; the added value created by the main business activity &#8211; products and services, particularities which distinguish the cooperative\u00a0 from investor owned companies in the same sector \u2013 ways of production distribution, clientele, profit distribution \u2013 patronage rights<\/li>\n<li>Institutional\/ governance structure, legal form \u2013 describe the particularities \/ distinctive features of the legal form \u2013 ownership\/patronage, decision-making rights, member relationships, external relations and basic economic data.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Each case study has an Executive Summary- Executive Summary, including bibliography, charts, and graphs.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-307 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solidaritate.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/FINCare_UE-300x66.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"66\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solidaritate.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/FINCare_UE-300x66.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solidaritate.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/FINCare_UE.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cooperative and Other Rural Associative Enterprises \u2013 Case Studies A set of 14 case studies (4 for Spain, 4 for Germany and 6 for Romania) gathering best practices related to farmers\/producers cooperatives \u00a0in the involved countries \u2013 in different sectors&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1534,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1581,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1580\/revisions\/1581"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}