The Model of Efficiency Estimation in Agricultural Cooperation
Economic relations in agro-industrial complex of Russia today require new approaches to increasing the efficiency of economic entities. This is especially true for small forms of management, which, despite significant growth in this sphere, still remain economically ineffective. The cooperation aims to solve this problem, to strengthen the position of individual farmers and relieve some of the social tensions in the countryside. The agricultural cooperatives existing in Russia today are far from the model that is needed in modern market relations, require an assessment of their effectiveness, and further development of more effective mechanisms of interaction. The article describes the existing methods of assessing the effectiveness of cooperation, on the basis of which the author proposes a model of assessment, taking into account the specific features of the sphere under investigation, as well as the type of cooperation. The model includes such aspects as institutional and economic efficiency, as well as the analysis of the cooperative's conformity to the objectives of cooperation and the principles of the International Cooperative Alliance.