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Cooperative Studies and Economics

Cooperative Studies and Economics is a research topic within Strategy and Management. Science Explorer counts 13k research works in it since 1950. 10.5% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the governance, ownership structures, member participation, and organizational principles of cooperatives and mutual associations, with a focus on agricultural cooperatives and worker-owned firms. It delves into topics such as the impact of trust on cooperative membership, the role of cooperatives in rural community development, and the challenges and opportunities for cooperative finance. The cluster also examines the social economy, employee ownership, and the implications of cooperative models for sustainable economic development.

  • Cooperatives
  • Governance
  • Ownership
  • Agricultural
  • Member Participation
  • Organizational Economics
  • Worker Cooperatives
  • Social Economy
  • Employee Ownership
  • Rural Development
Research works
13k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-6%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Spain
19% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Cooperative Studies and Economics

Which countries lead Cooperative Studies and Economics research?

By volume, Spain and the United States publish the most (201 and 159 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Spain 201 works
  2. 2 United States 159 works
  3. 3 China 111 works
  4. 4 Indonesia 107 works
  5. 5 Germany 102 works
  6. 6 France 89 works
  7. 7 Brazil 82 works
  8. 8 India 77 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 59 works
  10. 10 Italy 55 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

Spain: 19.3%United States: 15.3%China: 10.7%Indonesia: 10.2%6 others listed: 44.4%19%largest
Spain201 · 19.3%United States159 · 15.3%China111 · 10.7%Indonesia107 · 10.2%6 others listed463 · 44.4%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Cooperative Studies and Economics research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Cooperative Studies and Economics research, followed by Universitat de València and University of Cologne.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 18 works
  2. 2 Universitat de ValènciaSpain 17 works
  3. 3 University of CologneGermany 15 works
  4. 4 University of AlmeríaSpain 10 works
  5. 5 Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'EnvironnementFrance 10 works
  6. 6 Universidad de ZaragozaSpain 9 works
  7. 7 Universidad de SevillaSpain 9 works
  8. 8 University of the Basque CountrySpain 8 works
  9. 9 Mondragon UnibertsitateaSpain 8 works
  10. 10 Université Ibn ZohrMorocco 8 works

Who are the leading researchers in Cooperative Studies and Economics?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Cooperative Studies and Economics include Michael C. Jensen, Michael E. Porter and Элинор Остром.

  1. 1 Michael C. Jensen United States 203k citations
  2. 2 Michael E. Porter United States 165k citations
  3. 3 Элинор Остром United States 149k citations
  4. 4 Oliver E. Williamson United States 113k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Cooperative Studies and Economics?

The most cited paper in Cooperative Studies and Economics is "The Sources and Consequences of Embeddedness for the Economic Performance of Organizations: The Network Effect" (Brian Uzzi, 1996), with 6,067 citations. Next come "Stewardship Theory or Agency Theory: CEO Governance and Shareholder Returns" (3,570) and "Price, Authority, and Trust: From Ideal Types to Plural Forms" (1,971).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Sources and Consequences of Embeddedness for the Economic Performance of Organizations: The Network Effect Brian Uzzi · American Sociological Review Aug 1996 6,067
2 Stewardship Theory or Agency Theory: CEO Governance and Shareholder Returns Lex Donaldson, James H. Davis · Australian Journal of Management Jun 1991 3,570
3 Price, Authority, and Trust: From Ideal Types to Plural Forms Jeffrey L. Bradach, Robert G. Eccles · Annual Review of Sociology Aug 1989 1,971
4 Corporate Governance: Decades of Dialogue and Data Catherine M. Daily, Dan R. Dalton, Albert A. Cannella · Academy of Management Review Jul 2003 1,698
5 Advancing Research on Hybrid Organizing – Insights from the Study of Social Enterprises Julie Battilana, Matthew Lee · Academy of Management Annals 2014 1,569
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Cooperative Studies and Economics research done?

The largest centres of Cooperative Studies and Economics research in 2022-now are Madrid (Spain), Valencia (Spain), Beijing (China) and Paris (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Valencia.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MadridSpain 28 works
  2. 2 ValenciaSpain 26 works
  3. 3 BeijingChina 23 works
  4. 4 ParisFrance 21 works
  5. 5 BogotáColombia 17 works
  6. 6 CologneGermany 17 works
  7. 7 MoscowRussia 15 works
  8. 8 Mexico CityMexico 14 works
  9. 9 Buenos AiresArgentina 14 works
  10. 10 BarcelonaSpain 13 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ValenciaES · 26.0 works10×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Cooperative Studies and Economics than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Cooperative Studies and Economics?

Among universities, judged by research, University of the Basque Country, Universitat de València and University of Cologne score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%mean 8.5625%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of the Ba…Universidad de Zarag…University of CologneUniversitat de Valèn…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of the Basque CountrySpain 64.018.3%10.0×8 +12.4%
2Universitat de ValènciaSpain 60.53.1%17.7×17 +50.6%
3University of CologneGermany 60.54.6%20.1×15 +92.8%
4Universidad de ZaragozaSpain 51.912.1%12.3×9 -3.4%
5Mondragon UnibertsitateaSpain 51.311.9%152.8×8 +176.0%
6Universidad de SevillaSpain 43.215.6%8.8×9 +59.4%
7University of AlmeríaSpain 34.22.8%37.5×10 -37.4%
8Université Ibn ZohrMorocco 10.70.1%33.3×8 -41.3%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Cooperative Studies and Economics, country by country

Is Cooperative Studies and Economics research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 6% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2011.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Cooperative Studies and Economics as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0078% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%Cooperative Studies and Economics0.0083% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Cooperative Studies and Economics over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Cooperative Studies and Economics10.8% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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