http://repub.eur.nl/res/aut/46718/ List of Publications en http://repub.eur.nl/static-eur/img/logo.png http://repub.eur.nl http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/39961/ 2013-04-01T00:00:00Z On the basis of the bootstrap-Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), this paper estimates technical, scale, and pure technical efficiencies for the agricultural marketing cooperatives in China's Zhejiang Province and employs a single truncated bootstrap procedure to identify the key determinants of efficiencies. The empirical results suggest that pure technical inefficiency was the main source of the technical inefficiency. Factors having significantly positive impacts on efficiency of cooperatives are local economic development level, entrepreneurship of managers, and human capital of members. The size of financial leverage and the number of board members have a negative impact on pure technical efficiency. http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/31059/ 2012-01-23T00:00:00Z This paper addresses the distinction between core members and common members in farmer cooperatives in China in terms of the allocation of ownership rights, decision rights, and income rights. Empirical results from a multiple case study indicate that the life cycle and the governance characteristics of farmer cooperatives in China differ from cooperatives in the West world. The genesis of cooperatives in China is due to entrepreneurial farmers and the government, rather than the bottom-up, collective action process of many small farmers. The distribution of equity capital, decision rights, and income rights is quite skewed towards core members. We conclude that the development of cooperatives in China adapts to the local economic and cultural environment and goes via an alternative way to cooperatives in the Western world.