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  1. Challenges facing agricultural cooperatives in Mediterranean countries

    Article • Journal of Rural Studies, March 2026, Elsevier

    Professor Constantine Iliopoulos

  2. Evaluating the Performance of Agricultural Cooperatives: A Micro-Level Conceptual Framework for Benchmarking

    Article • Sustainability, February 2026, MDPI AG

    Professor Constantine Iliopoulos

  3. Moral and managerial perspectives on cooperatives: Towards a Luhmannian reconciliation

    Article • Systems Research and Behavioral Science, May 2024, Wiley

    Professor Constantine Iliopoulos

  4. Adaptation in transaction cost economics and stakeholder theory

    Article • Society and Business Review, February 2024, Emerald

    Professor Constantine Iliopoulos

  5. Innovative business models in European agrifood systems: governance issues in an era of digitalization, societal demand and environmental challenges

    Article • International Food and Agribusiness Management Review, February 2024, Brill

    Professor Constantine Iliopoulos

  6. La longévité des coopératives agricoles expliquée par leur capacité à s’adapter

    Article • RECMA, June 2023, CAIRN

    Professor Constantine Iliopoulos

  7. S'immerger dans le Cycle de vie d'une coopérative : un numéro en l'honneur du professeur M. L. Cook

    Article • RECMA, June 2023, CAIRN

    Professor Constantine Iliopoulos

  8. Organizational costs incurred by agricultural cooperatives

    Article • February 2023, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Constantine Iliopoulos

  9. Governance in Estonian Agricultural Cooperatives: Structures and Processes

    Article • Sustainability, November 2022, MDPI AG

    Professor Constantine Iliopoulos

  10. Understanding social innovation in short food supply chains: an exploratory analysis

    Article • International Journal of Food Studies, July 2022, ISEKI Food Association

    Professor Maurizio Canavari, Professor Constantine Iliopoulos

  11. Barriers and facilitators of purchasing from short food supply chains: evidence from consumer focus groups in Germany, Spain, Greece and Hungary

    Article • International Journal of Food Studies, July 2022, ISEKI Food Association

    Professor Constantine Iliopoulos

  12. Cooperative Governance Under Increasing Member Diversity

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Management, March 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Constantine Iliopoulos

  13. Social capital in cooperatives: an evolutionary Luhmannian perspective

    Article • Journal of Evolutionary Economics, August 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Constantine Iliopoulos

  14. The ownership and governance models of agricultural cooperatives in Estonia

    Article • Journal of Co-operative Organization and Management, December 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Constantine Iliopoulos

  15. Cooperative Longevity: Why Are So Many Cooperatives So Successful?

    Article • Sustainability, September 2018, MDPI AG

    Professor Constantine Iliopoulos

  16. Member Heterogeneity in Agricultural Cooperatives: A Systems-Theoretic Perspective

    Article • Sustainability, April 2018, MDPI AG

    Professor Constantine Iliopoulos

  17. What determines the acceptance and use of electronic traceability systems in agri-food supply chains?

    Article • Journal of Rural Studies, February 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Constantine Iliopoulos

  18. Perennial energy crops vs. durum wheat in low input lands: Economic analysis of a Greek case study

    Article • Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, December 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Constantine Iliopoulos

  19. Member preference heterogeneity and system-lifeworld dichotomy in cooperatives

    Article • Journal of Organizational Change Management, November 2017, Emerald

    Vladislav Valentinov, Professor Constantine Iliopoulos

  20. Internal resources as tools to increase the global competition: the Italian wine industry case

    Article • British Food Journal, November 2017, Emerald

    Full Professor Antonino Galati, Professor Constantine Iliopoulos

  21. Agricultural cooperatives in netchains

    Article • Journal on Chain and Network Science, September 2016, Wageningen Academic Publishers

    Professor Constantine Iliopoulos

  22. Generic solutions to coordination and organizational costs: informing cooperative longevity

    Article • Journal on Chain and Network Science, September 2016, Wageningen Academic Publishers

    Professor Constantine Iliopoulos

  23. FARMERS’ COOPERATIVES IN THE EU: POLICIES, STRATEGIES, AND ORGANIZATION

    Article • Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, November 2014, Wiley

    Professor Constantine Iliopoulos

  24. MANDATORY COOPERATIVES AND THE FREE RIDER PROBLEM: THE CASE OF SANTO WINES IN SANTORINI, GREECE

    Article • Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, November 2014, Wiley

    Professor Constantine Iliopoulos

  25. PUBLIC POLICY SUPPORT FOR AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVES: AN ORGANIZATIONAL ECONOMICS APPROACH

    Article • Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, August 2013, Wiley

    Professor Constantine Iliopoulos

  26. Agricultural cooperatives

    Article • Journal of Entrpreneurial and Organizational Diversity, May 2013, EURICSE - European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises

    Vladislav Valentinov, Professor Constantine Iliopoulos, Professor Ermanno C. Tortia

  27. Government–Third Sector Relations in European Rural Development: A Critical Perspective

    Article • Nonprofit Policy Forum, May 2013, De Gruyter

    Professor Constantine Iliopoulos

  28. Control Rights, Governance, and the Costs of Ownership in Agricultural Cooperatives

    Article • Agribusiness, December 2012, Wiley

    Professor Constantine Iliopoulos

  29. Innovation strategies of fruit supply chains

    Article • British Food Journal, June 2012, Emerald

    Professor Constantine Iliopoulos

  30. Opportunism in Agricultural Cooperatives in Greece

    Article • Outlook on Agriculture, March 2012, SAGE Publications

    Vladislav Valentinov, Professor Constantine Iliopoulos

  31. Economic Theories of Nonprofits and Agricultural Cooperatives Compared

    Article • Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, February 2012, SAGE Publications

    Vladislav Valentinov, Professor Constantine Iliopoulos

  32. Environmental cost-effectiveness of bio diesel production in Greece: Current policies and alternative scenarios

    Article • Energy Policy, February 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Constantine Iliopoulos

  33. Toward an economics of the rural third sector

    Article • International Journal of Agricultural Resources Governance and Ecology, January 2009, Inderscience Publishers

    Vladislav Valentinov, Professor Constantine Iliopoulos

  34. Influence Costs in Agribusiness Cooperatives

    Article • International Studies of Management and Organization, January 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Constantine Iliopoulos

  35. Ill-defined property rights in collective action: the case of US agricultural cooperatives

    Article • Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Constantine Iliopoulos

  36. Contracting and Organization in Food and Agriculture

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Constantine Iliopoulos

  37. Measuring and communicating the true value of membership: the case of the Pindos Poultry Co-operative

    Article • Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Constantine Iliopoulos