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Membership: an Organizational View

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  • Gray, Thomas W.

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This study examines the membership structure of a large centralized cooperative from an organizational workability view. Structure is created by dividing membership organizationally, i.e., assigning different roles and tasks to different groups of members, as well as to individual members, and bringing coordination to these differentiations. The membership structure of the case cooperative was found large in number of members, highly differentiated, and well coordinated. The structuring, i.e., creating a division of labor among the membership, and the coordinating of these divisions is done in response to conditions in the membership environment.

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  • Gray, Thomas W., 1991. "Membership: an Organizational View," Research Reports 52016, United States Department of Agriculture, Rural Development.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:urdbrr:52016
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.52016
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    1. Gray, Thomas W. & Butler, Gillian, 1994. "Membership Structural Design: A Pilot Test On DHI Cooperatives," Research Reports 279984, United States Department of Agriculture, Rural Development.
    2. Gray, Thomas W. & Butler, Gillian, 1994. "Toward an Organizational Theory of Membership Structural Design," Journal of Agricultural Cooperation, National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, vol. 9, pages 1-15.
    3. Michael L. Cook, 2018. "A Life Cycle Explanation of Cooperative Longevity," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(5), pages 1-20, May.

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