AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVES: A Bibliometric Analysis of International Production
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https://doi.org/10.5902/2359043234307Keywords:
Agricultural Cooperatives, Bibliometry, Bradford’s Law, Lotka's Law, Zipf's LawAbstract
This research aimed to analyze the bibliometry research on agricultural cooperatives in the international scope. Based on the quantitative approach, the Web of Science base was used for surveying international production and from this perspective, as a keyword: Agricultural Cooperatives, without applying temporal cut or any other search filter. For the analysis of the production raised, the Bibliometric Laws of Bradford, Lotka and Zipf were used. The results demonstrate the concentration and approaches of the journals. It was noted the approaches on internal and external aspects: strategic developments, industrial organization, industrial and food systems. Besides that attributes for international and political comparisons were observed. According to the clusters it is concluded that the most used approach is agency theory, followed by problems of governance, strategic aspects, production and social aspects. This consideration is the effect of an average growth was 7.5% in the last 35 years.
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