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عنوان فارسی مقاله:
یک مزیت تعاونی وجود دارد؟ شواهد تجربی در عوامل اقتصادی و غیر اقتصادی، تقاضا
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله:
Is there a co-operative advantage? Experimental evidence on the economic and non-economic determinants of demand
سال انتشار : 2016
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مقدمه انگلیسی مقاله:
1. Introduction
In a very broad sense, using data derived from a classroom experiment, I test the hypothesis that a consumer co-operative holds a competitive advantage on the market over investor owned firms by virtue of it being a co-operative. A consumer co-operative is a member-owned (in this case, consumer-owned) and democratically run business oriented towards the mutual benefit of its members (Altman, 2009; Birchall & Ketilson, 2009; Birchall, 2003; International Cooperative Association, 2016; Novkovic, 2006). I ask if consumers are willing to pay something extra, if necessary, when the preferred commodity is sold by a consumer co-operative. Moreover, I ask if the consumer is willing to purchase a product supplied by a co-operative (or a co-operative product) over the same-priced product sold by a non-co-operative or investor-owned firm. If this is the case, the co-operative provides its products with an additional characteristic desired by the consumer that improves her or his utility or wellbeing.1 This additional and positive characteristic is a function of the product being sold by consumer co-operative—this member-owned and democratically operated business. More specifically, I present results from a survey-based classroom (lab) experiment that interrogates the conventional economic hypothesis that consumer choice is largely a function of relative prices, given income, as opposed to other non-economic factors. This is the first survey experiment on cooperatives of this type. There are no systematic scientific published studies that attempt to determine the extent to which pro-cooperative preferences exist. Hence, a significant gap in the literature and related understandings of what drives the demand for the output produced by co-operatives from co-operatives members and from individuals who are not members of co-operative. We do, however, have some evidence that consumers have a liking for such output and might pay somewhat more for co-operative output.2 My findings challenge the narrow economic worldview that economic variables alone count; but support a core economic assumption that economic variables are of fundamental impor-tance to individuals’ choice decisions (Altman, 2005a, 2005b, 2006). I find that individuals are willing to make material sacrifices to reward organizations that have certain preferred or desired characteristics. In this experiment, the desired characteristic of a product is a function of it being sold by a consumer co-operative. This preferred characteristic provides co-operatives with a co-operative advantage on the market. In my experiment, even individuals who hypothesize themselves not to be members of a co-operative are willing to forfeit some income to purchase a product sold by a consumer co-operative. However, both hypothesized members and non-members of co-operatives exhibit negative elasticities of demand with respect to relative price increases in co-operatives. Demand is negatively affected by price increases. Price matters, but not as much as is hypothesized in the conventional economics worldview.
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