The Role of Trust In Creating Cooperatives. Example of Europe– Selected Aspects
The Role of Trust In Creating Cooperatives. Example of Europe– Selected Aspects

Summary/Abstract: One of the important forms of cooperation is a cooperative. It is defi ned in the literature as undertaking activities aiming at achievement of a common goal of all the parties to such a transaction. Cooperatives should be based on trust, loyalty and acceptance of informal and formal rules of conduct by all parties to the transaction. On the basis of such background the main research purpose of the paper is to identify the issue of cooperation, cooperatives and trust on theoretical level. Research method of secondary sources survey was used to achieve the assumed goal. Th e paper includes two parts: the fi rst, the theoretical one, presents major assumptions of cooperation, and the second, empirical, based on secondary sources, presents selected aspects of activity of cooperatives in Europe. Th e paper presents at the end of the second part some results and conclusion.

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