Agricultural cooperatives in the Netherlands are not very active in supporting the competence development of members. That is one of the conclusions of the paper Dorine Orbons and I wrote on the basis of a small-scale and explorative study of representatives of cooperatives. Members may also not expect that or even would want the cooperative to stay away of that. On the other hand, cooperatives are very active in supporting the competence development of their elected board members. The support of competence development of employees of cooperatives seems not to be different from that within non-cooperative companies. Read more about this research in the AERA-paper which can be downloaded from this site (see Downloads button).
