WHOLESALE CO-OPERATION IN SCOTLAND

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Monographs on agricultural co-operation in various countries.

v 1. Germany. Belgium. Denmark. British India. France. Great Britain and Ireland. Norway. Holland. Russia. Sweden.- v. 2. Argentina. Austria. Kingdom of Hungary. Italy. Switzerland.

Las Cruces traffic study, 1960. In co-operation with U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of Public Roads.

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Studies in the packing industry [by] the Bureau of business and economic research in co-operation with the Local community research committee of the University of Chicago and the Institute of American meat packers.

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Report on local co-operation between universities, local education authorities, and voluntary bodies.

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Monthly Review of the California Climate and Crop Service, in co-operation with the State Agricultural Society

At head of title: U.S. Department of Agriculture. Weather Bureau

Co-operation

No more published after Dec.1914

Transactions of the International Union for Co-operation in Solar Research

Vol. 1 contains proceedings and papers of the first conference, held at St. Louis, 1904, and of the second conference, at Oxford, 1905

The history of co-operation in Scotland: its inception and its leaders.

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The curious absence of inter-municipal co-operation in England

In Europe local authorities often work with their neighbouring municipalities, whether to address a specific task or goal or through the course of regular policy making and implementation. In England, however, inter-municipal co-operation (IMC) is less common. Councils may work with service providers from the private and non-profit sectors but less often with neighbouring local authorities. Why this is the case may be explained by a number of historical and policy factors that often encourage councils to compete, rather than to work collaboratively with each other. The present government has encouraged councils to work in partnership with other organizations but there are few examples of increased horizontal cooperation between local authorities. Instead the prevailing model remains fixed on vertical co-working predicated on a principal-agent relationship between higher and lower tiers of government.

Inter-organizational co-operation, conflict and change

Relationships between organizations can be characterized by cooperation, conflict, and change. In this dissertation we study cooperation between organizations by investigating how norms in relationships can enhance innovativeness and subsequently impact relationship performance. We do so by incorporating both beneficial aspects of long term relationships as well as “dark side” factors that may decrease innovativeness. This provides a balanced assessment of the factors increasing and decreasing the performance of relationships. Next, we study conflict between organizations by taking a network view on conflict which helps explain why organizations react to conflict. We find stakeholders to have an effect on channel conflict responsiveness. Finally we study change by means of an organization’s ability to successfully add an Internet channel to their distribution system in order to sell its products or services directly to the end-user. We find that an Internet channel is best implemented by organizations that are flexible and we identify several circumstances under which this flexibility is highest.