The determinants of organisational knowledge among members of rural co-operatives

Abstract

This study examines the rather neglected issue of co-operative member education and communication. On the basis of survey data obtained from the members of two cotton marketing co-operatives in the Lango district of Uganda, it has been established that many of the rural co-operatives were inadequately informed, even on some of the elementary aspects of their own co-ops. The little knowledge that few members had of their marketing co-ops was the result of some small amount of formal education as well as some involvement in community leadership and prior membership of the management committee.