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Local Cooperation: A Dynamic Force for Endogenous Rural Development

In: Balkan and Eastern European Countries in the Midst of the Global Economic Crisis

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  • Fotios Chatzitheodoridis

    (Technological Educational Institute of Western Macedonia)

  • Anastasios Michailidis

    (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)

  • Georgios Theodosiou

    (Technological Educational Institute of Larissa
    Technological Educational Institution of Western Macedonia)

  • Efstratios Loizou

    (Technological Educational Institute of Western Macedonia)

Abstract

The main objective of this study is to indicate that many times rural development is achievable endogenously through local forces. It is believed that a direct relationship exists between local cooperation and local forces in rural communities, allowing them to become a mechanism for endogenous development. The examination of local cooperation as a mechanism for endogenous development is important and thus, after a review of theoretical works related to local cooperation and endogenous development, the study presents an analysis derived from a case study, performed in a typical peripheral rural area in northwest Greece. Especially, after the recent spectacular shift of the global financial status, the existence of a local cooperation framework attracts the interest of the analysts as it can shed new light on endogenous development and on modeling and understanding better the long-term behavior of rural residents. Thus, this study examines the willingness of the local society to accept and support a local factor such as an investment proposal of the local union of agricultural cooperatives, by revealing the foremost reasons thereof. Both descriptive statistics and multivariate analysis were employed. Two-step cluster analysis was used to explore the different levels of local factor’s adoption and a binomial logit model was estimated to determine the relation between social characteristics and willingness to adopt endogenous development.

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  • Fotios Chatzitheodoridis & Anastasios Michailidis & Georgios Theodosiou & Efstratios Loizou, 2013. "Local Cooperation: A Dynamic Force for Endogenous Rural Development," Contributions to Economics, in: Anastasios Karasavvoglou & Persefoni Polychronidou (ed.), Balkan and Eastern European Countries in the Midst of the Global Economic Crisis, edition 127, pages 121-132, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:conchp:978-3-7908-2873-3_9
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7908-2873-3_9
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    1. Ourania Tremma & Achilleas Kontogeorgos & Philippos Karipidis & Fotios Chatzitheodoridis, 2021. "Mapping the Market Segments for the Consumers of Greek Cooperative Food Products," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(7), pages 1-20, March.
    2. Petroula Liltsi & Anastasios Michailidis & Efstratios Loizou & Fotios Chatzitheodoridis, 2020. "The impact of social capital on the immigrants` integration alongside the Rural-Urban Continuum: Evidence from Greece," Asian Journal of Agriculture and rural Development, Asian Economic and Social Society, vol. 10(1), pages 1-8, June.
    3. Dimitrios Kalfas & Fotios Chatzitheodoridis & Efstratios Loizou & Katerina Melfou, 2022. "Willingness to Pay for Urban and Suburban Green," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(4), pages 1-21, February.
    4. Chatzitheodoridis, Fotios & Kontogeorgos, Achilleas, 2020. "New entrants policy into agriculture: researching new farmers’ satisfaction," Revista de Economia e Sociologia Rural (RESR), Sociedade Brasileira de Economia e Sociologia Rural, vol. 58(1), January.

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