The changing values of the cooperative and its business focus

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1077-1082

  Hind, Abigail M ^a  

^a HARPER ADAMS UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agricultural cooperatives; Business objectives; Semantic analysis

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVE; BUSINESS STRATEGY; COOPERATIVE SECTOR; RURAL BUSINESS; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0031404054     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1244265     Document Type: Article

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