This book collects sixteen essays that provide clarification to issues pertinent to contemporary cooperatives. Twenty three internationally recognized scholars of agricultural cooperatives from a variety of disciplines such as industrial organization, finance, sociology, networks, and political theory contributed theoretical work and empirical observations from different countries.

Kostas Karantininis is research professor of Economics of Agri-Food Supply Chains& Cooperatives at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Denmark.

Jerker Nilsson is professor of cooperative business at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden.