Cultivating Cooperation: Can Joining an Ideological Agricultural Co-op Make you More Cooperative?

• In Event: 320 - Regular Session. How Institutions and Culture Shape Identities

Abstract

This paper examines the influence of market structure on cultural identities. In it, I investigate the cultural values of organic dairy farmers and examine the influence on these values of being a member of a mission-driven cooperative enterprise compared with supplying to an investor-owned publicly traded enterprise.

Author

• Kathryn Anderson, University of Wisconsin