The purpose of this thesis is to evaluate the management efficiency of Reginal Livestock Cooperatives in Korea.
First of all, an overall perspective of agricultural production and cooperatives in Korea are reviewed and the business conditions of regi...
The purpose of this thesis is to evaluate the management efficiency of Reginal Livestock Cooperatives in Korea.
First of all, an overall perspective of agricultural production and cooperatives in Korea are reviewed and the business conditions of regional livestock cooperatives are investigated. Second, an attempt is made to investigate members' and customers ' understanding on the cooperative principles. Finally, this study tries to suggest the ways of improvement of inefficient Decision Making Unit(DMU) that is resulted from Data Envelopment Analysis(DEA).
Survey results may be summarized as follows.
First, 30% of the surveyed regional livestock cooperatives are larger than the average business scale. Most of the cooperatives are located in cities and average business volume of them is twice larger than that of cooperatives located in rural area.
second, survey result shows that 'understanding on Local Cooperatives's' indicates that most members have positive attitudes and willingness to participate in the cooperative business very actively. On the other hand, customers or non-members are shown to not have as much knowledge as the members on basic concepts of cooperatives business. Moreover, they participate in the business just due to their conveniency to visit the cooperation. It suggests that the cooperatives should get closer to the customers with better education and communication programs for different kinds of participants.
Finally, results of DEA analysis indicate that the overall efficiency is higher in the city-located cooperatives. For the cooperatives in farm village, many of them are needed to increase their business scale. Moreover, labor costs are relatively high in the most inefficient cooperatives, suggesting ultimate efforts for labor costs down.