Cooperativas e internacionalización: un análisis de las 300 mayores cooperativas del mundo

Cooperatives are usually portrayed as small-sized enterprises that operate exclusively at the domestic level. What is more, the literature highlights several inefficiencies of organizational and financial nature that suggest that these organizations should be unable to expand internationally. In vie...

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Published inCIRIEC-España no. 92; pp. 5 - 37
Main Authors Bretos, Ignacio, Díaz-Foncea, Millán, Marcuello, Carmen
Format Journal Article
LanguageSpanish
Published Valencia CIRIEC - Espana 01.04.2018
Subjects
Annual reports
Cooperatives
Economic crisis
Employment
Globalization
International
Market entry
Markets
Studies
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Summary:Cooperatives are usually portrayed as small-sized enterprises that operate exclusively at the domestic level. What is more, the literature highlights several inefficiencies of organizational and financial nature that suggest that these organizations should be unable to expand internationally. In view of this, the article aims to test if there are internationalized cooperatives in the current globalized world, as well as to analyse their degree of internationalization (based on the foreign market entry strategy), their size in terms of turnover and employment, their home countries, and the sectors in which they operate. To address our research questions, we provide an exploratory analysis about the internationalization of the 300 largest cooperatives in the world between 2010 and 2013. Roughly 85% of the 300 largest cooperatives in the world operate across borders. Moreover, the high degree of internationalization of these cooperatives is evident. About 55% of them are present in foreign markets through equity agreements.
ISSN:0213-8093
1989-6816
DOI:10.7203/CIRIEC-E.92.11480