Cooperative Entrepreneurship in Sustainable Rural Development

Abstract

AbstractCooperative entrepreneurship is an important area of the market-oriented economy of rural areas. Overcoming the crisis state of the economy, organizations of consumer cooperation in the segment of small and medium-sized businesses are focused on preserving the accumulated experience and traditions, while developing innovative areas, mastering new technologies that provide for the digitalization of all processes. Consumer cooperation organizations occupy their own niche in the modern market space and ensure the socio-economic processes of rural areas through the procurement of agricultural products, trade, public catering, and domestic services. Studies have shown that the rural territories of our country lag behind not only in the development of the information and communication environment, but also in the level of well-being and quality of life of the population. Prospects of development of multisectoral activity of organizations of consumer cooperation on the basis of stable state-partnership relations in ensuring economic security of entrepreneurial activity in the sector of socio-economic development of rural territories of the state in the context of federal districts are considered. The advantage of cooperative entrepreneurship in the modern competitive environment is the opportunity to participate in forums, exhibitions, fairs for cooperators, which makes it possible to exchange experience, find partners, identify new directions of entrepreneurial activity, reducing the level of threats to economic security.KeywordsConsumer cooperation of RussiaCooperative entrepreneurshipMultisectoral activityRural areasDigitalization of processesState-partnership relationsEconomic transformationJEL CodeK2D6