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| Bhuyan, Sanjib; Olson, Frayne E.. |
| Focus group discussions were conducted in April 1997 in two rural North Dakota counties to examine whether the problem of inadequate or missing goods and services in those areas can be solved by using the cooperative business approach. An earlier study (Bhuyan, 1996a) has shown that many rural North Dakota communities lack essential goods and services, such as supermarket or grocery stores, clothing stores, drug stores, bank/credit facilities, and ambulance or fire-services. Focus group participants corroborated those earlier findings at the local level. It was also found that the rural residents were not fully aware of the potential role of cooperatives in the non-agricultural sectors as a means to provide inadequate or missing goods and services.... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Non-agricultural cooperatives; Rural development strategies; Focus group; Community/Rural/Urban Development. |
| Ano: 1998 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/23298 |
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| Bhuyan, Sanjib. |
| The principal goal of shared-services cooperatives is to capture savings through lower administrative costs, quantity purchasing discounts, sharing fixed costs, and assured levels of business with vendors and suppliers. Although the idea of cooperation is not new in North Dakota, the question raised here is whether there is potential applications for non-agricultural shared-services cooperatives that provide services that are absent or inadequate in rural communities in the state. It is concluded that there is potential application for shared-services cooperatives in both public and private sectors in North Dakota based on opportunities to share fixed costs and to capitalize on pecuniary economies of size. |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Shared-services cooperatives; Non-agricultural cooperatives; North Dakota; Agribusiness. |
| Ano: 1996 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/23101 |
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