Cooperatives Governance Structure in China: A New Analytical Framework

摘要

The cooperatives governance structure has always been the research priorities in the field of cooperative economics, but so far the issue is still considered as "gray box" or even as "black box". Most of the recent researches focused on the internal governance structure of cooperatives, or take the governance structure of cooperatives as a generalized property rights. Overall, the existing researches lack of the integrated perspective, especially the targeted analytical framework. Therefore, the authors assume that the particularity of cooperatives, in a certain sense, reflected in its membership identity. On this basis, the paper constructed a theoretical analytical framework of cooperatives governance structure which could effectively explain the positioning of existing cooperative types and its evolution trends.