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Discipline, internal motivations, and cooperation in a rural production cooperative.

From: Environments  |  Date: 8/1/2005  |  Author: Mansfield, Faith

Abstract

A disciplinary system is an important mechanism to build the trust and commitment essential for maintaining effective organization for collective action. A case study in southern Brazil examines a situation in which the lack of effective monitoring and enforcement contributed to the decline of a cooperative, and asks why these activities were ineffectively applied. The literature suggests that the lack of application would be because the provision of monitoring and ...

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