Performance of Agricultural Marketing Cooperatives in Thailand

Cooperatives are the not for profit organization, they provide their members with patronage refund and dividend together with the social benefit aspect. Performance of the cooperatives firms are important to their business growth. A good cooperative organization should has their appropriate measurement together with performance management. This study had survey over 300 agricultural marketing cooperatives in 19 provinces of Thailand. The study found that most of the cooperatives had their performance measurement but lack of good performance management.

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Dr.Chanchai PetchprapunkulDepartment of CooperativesFaculty of EconomicsKasetsart UniversityBangkok 10900 Thailandfecochpe@ku.ac.th