Cooperatives: The governance of patronage dividends (A Corporate Finance viewpoint)
Members of cooperatives are patrons and owners simultaneously, which turns out to be a consequential feature ingrained in that sort of business associations. This paper puts forward some contributions to the subject. Firstly, it defines a primary cooperative, making hence a contrast with cooperatives of cooperatives and shaping up their distinctive incremental cash-flow structure. Secondly, it focuses on some governance attributes depicted by patronage dividends in their quest for cash flows from assets.