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How Could Cooperatives Successfully Develop Their Social Responsibility: The Perspective of Life Cycle

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  • Jin Tang

    (Department of Agricultural and Forestry Economic Management, Faculty of Management, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China
    Department of Economics and Management, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Helsinki, 00790 Helsinki, Finland)

  • Timo Sipiläinen

    (Department of Economics and Management, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Helsinki, 00790 Helsinki, Finland)

  • Gang Fu

    (Department of Agricultural and Forestry Economic Management, Faculty of Management, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China
    Faculty of Business, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611830, China)

Abstract

Social responsibility is a natural obligation of cooperatives, and fulfilling social responsibility is of great meaning to the sustainable development of cooperatives and society. This article constructs a “life cycle-cooperative social responsibility framework (LC-CoopSRF)” and analyzes the framework with the case of Chongxin Apiculture Specialized Cooperative of Sichuan Province, China. The research results show that cooperatives should respect the law of life cycle, consider conditions such as operational capabilities and ethical expectations, and fulfill social responsibility in a reasonable manner. The successful cooperative highlights the bottom-line responsibility in the establishment phase, internal responsibility in the growth phase, system responsibility in the maturity phase, and the differentiation phase is the phase of system responsibility.

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  • Jin Tang & Timo Sipiläinen & Gang Fu, 2020. "How Could Cooperatives Successfully Develop Their Social Responsibility: The Perspective of Life Cycle," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(21), pages 1-17, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:12:y:2020:i:21:p:9282-:d:441913
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    1. Noreen Byrne, 2023. "Cooperative Lifecycle Framing—Reinvention or Regeneration and Does It Matter?," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(7), pages 1-14, April.

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