Significant barriers to the adoption of the agricultural cooperative model of entrepreneurship: a literature review

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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the literature on cooperative entrepreneurship in the agricultural sector and to identify important barriers to this entrepreneurship model. A Systematic Literature Review (SLR) has been conducted in well-known databases, such as, Scopus, Emerald, ScienceDirect, GoogleScholar, IDEAS/RePEc search and Web of Science. Between 2010 and 2019 seventy eight peer-reviewed relative publications had been found. This fact illustrates that over the last decade many search capacities opened in the field of cooperative entrepreneurship. Current contribution attempts a SLR on entrepreneurship in rural cooperatives thus providing an overview of the state of the action in the respective field. It highlights some important barriers facing the cooperative entrepreneurship model, while compiling a literature review to identify existing research challenges, and outlines the areas in which future research efforts should be directed to.

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