Delphi method applied to horticultural cooperatives

Climent, Vanessa Campos; Apetrei, Andreea; Ávila, Rafael Chaves

doi:10.1108/00251741211247003

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“…Previous research argued that the Delphi analysis can be used for predictive purposes and to explore a topic with unavailable prior information [82][83][84]. This method combines the advantages of group techniques (different people and points of view, creativity, innovativeness) but without the limitations imposed by the group's pressures.…”

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Female Entrepreneurship: Can Cooperatives Contribute to Overcoming the Gender Gap? A Spanish First Step to Equality

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To date, entrepreneurship research has rarely focused on cooperatives. Recent research has suggested there is a positive association between cooperatives and women's entrepreneurial activity based on the assumption that this model is especially suitable for women's expectations and is favourable to their economic entrepreneurial development. However, few studies have empirically tested these propositions. This research, which analysed data from 264 Spanish cooperatives, confirms these findings. A mixed-methods approach was used. In the first stage, a Delphi study was run with 11 cooperative entrepreneurship experts to ask what factors may be decisive for women preferring a cooperative model. In the second stage, the factors derived from the Delphi study were used in a survey targeting female cooperative associates. The findings confirmed that female cooperative owners perceived this business model to be aligned with their values and best fit their work and lifestyle. This research contributes to the existing social entrepreneurship literature by providing empirical evidence from the Spanish context that highlights the role of women in cooperatives. The findings also emphasize the need for responsive policies and programmes that promote the cooperative model since it promotes female employment and women's entrepreneurial activity even in periods of economic austerity.Sustainability 2020, 12, 2478 2 of 17 women and men in terms of their levels of participation, access, rights, remuneration, or benefits (European Institute for Gender Equality, EIGE) [8][9][10]. In this vein, Dalkiran [11] recently highlighted the benefits women receive from the membership of cooperative organizations and concluded that female entrepreneurship through cooperatives can facilitate progress in meeting regional and national development targets. Dalkiran's contribution [11] should be considered a first step in a relatively young academic field-women's social entrepreneurship-which has been primarily based on case studies (see, for example, [12,13]). While his study targeted Turkish cooperatives, Dalkiran [11] argued that similar findings might be attained in other cultural settings. As shown, cooperatives can favour women's entrepreneurship as they are owned and self-managed by their workers. Furthermore, cooperatives might be welcoming organizations for women, as well as drivers of equality. If these organizations can act as a fast track for women to become entrepreneurs, they can be a springboard to female empowerment and economic development.Despite the growing popularity of cooperatives and their superior resistance to economic downturns [2,[14][15][16][17], entrepreneurial studies drawing on this business model remain scarce, and Carrasco [18] (p.62) urges future researchers "to better understand the contribution of cooperatives to enable the transformative change required for advancements on gender equality". This study addresses this research gap by examining the main factors that influence women's entrepreneurship by using coope...

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“…In effect, it is a systematic process that seeks to achieve convergence on real-world opinions from a group of experts on certain (research) question(s) [152,153]. Opinions are gathered through multiple survey rounds, allowing and encouraging the selected experts to reassess judgments provided in previous iterations [154]. So, in each round, the participants are asked to answer questions individually and anonymously, while, after each round, responses are statistically summarized and reported back to them, giving them the chance to revise their answers [149,152].…”

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Harnessing a ‘Currency Matrix’ for Performance Measurement in Cooperatives: A Multi-Phased Study

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The cooperative organizational form is by nature a sustainable one, which has proved to be resilient in the face of crises and a solid lever in addressing present-day societal challenges. Still, little is known about its socio-economic impact. Also, despite the plethora of studies on cooperative performance, research remains inconclusive about how to best measure it. In fact, scholarly work has largely favored the use of appraisal tools reflecting those of investor-owned firms (IOFs), having undermined the dual idiosyncratic nature of the cooperative organizational form, which is manifest in the business and social-membership objectives. The goal of this article is to fill these gaps by delivering a comprehensive dashboard for cooperative performance assessment that harmonizes business–social aspects and catalogs the basic components for future attempts. To reach this goal, we used an extensive review of empirical research in cooperative performance (phase 1) and a Delphi study with 14 experts (phase 2). In addition, we reviewed comparable research efforts for a business form (social enterprises) that combines business with social goals and faces similar challenges (phase 3). This inquiry was particularly insightful for the social perspective and the overlooked role of cooperatives as a socially-embedded organizational form that hardly documents its societal impact and outreach.

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“…Some classical approaches of multi-criteria analysis, such as Delphi [34], [35] or analytic hierarchy process (AHP) [36], [37], do not consider the uncertainty within their analysis, due to the fact that the importance degrees of criteria and performance scores of alternatives are assumed to be known precisely [38]. In addition, some options to model the uncertainly can be fuzzy logic approaches [39], probabilistic approaches [40] or grey systems approaches [5].…”

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Integrating Social Impact Assessment and Environmental Conflict Analysis on a Hydrocarbon Exploration Project in Spain

Delgado¹,

Romero²

2016

IJET

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Abstract-Social impact assessment (SIA) has become a key factor for environmental conflicts prevention, which makes necessary to integrate SIA and environmental conflict analysis (ECA). In this article, we integrate SIA and ECA using a method based on grey systems and Shannon entropy. A case study was conducted on a hydrocarbon exploration project located in the Sea of the Gulf of Valencia, Spain. Four stakeholder groups and four evaluation criteria were identified. The results revealed that for group of specialists the project would have negative social impact; and contrary perceptions were found between the group ofprimary activities populationand the group of retirees. It was also noted that the criteria most likely to generate environmental conflicts were the percentage of unemployment and the GDP per capita. These results could help central and community governments to make the best decision on the project. The method showed interesting results and could be apply to manage other projects or programs from point of view of social factors.

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Delphi method applied to horticultural cooperatives

Cited by 49 publications

References 10 publications

Female Entrepreneurship: Can Cooperatives Contribute to Overcoming the Gender Gap? A Spanish First Step to Equality

Female Entrepreneurship: Can Cooperatives Contribute to Overcoming the Gender Gap? A Spanish First Step to Equality

Harnessing a ‘Currency Matrix’ for Performance Measurement in Cooperatives: A Multi-Phased Study

Integrating Social Impact Assessment and Environmental Conflict Analysis on a Hydrocarbon Exploration Project in Spain

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