Cooperatives and Producer Companies

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  • 3 Sequences
  • Introductive Level
  • Starts on April 10, 2019
  • Ends on May 22, 2019

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Syllabus

Week 01: Introduction
  • Overview
  • Defining a Cooperative
  • Cooperative Principles
  • What is not a Cooperative?
  • A Conversation
  • Cooperatives outside India
  • Why do we need Cooperatives?
Week 02: Forming Cooperatives
  • Introduction to Forming Cooperatives
  • Role of NGOs
  • Challenges faced by NGOs
  • Pool and Sell Model of Forming Cooperatives
  • Quality Assessment of the Produce
  • Promoting Agency and the Cooperative
Week 03: Promoting Cooperatives
  • Initial Operations for Promoting Cooperatives
  • Financing a Cooperative
  • Suggestions for a Better Functioning Cooperative
  • Mistakes to be Avoided for a Better Functioning Cooperative
  • Marketing and Organizational Framework for a Cooperative
  • Pool, Process, Store and Sell Model
  • The Way Forward

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Instructors

Trilochan Sastry
Professor, Decision Sciences
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

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Indian Institute of Management Bangalore ( IIM Bangalore or IIMB ) is a public business school and institute of national importance located in Bangalore, India. Founded in 1973, it was the third IIM to be established, after IIM Calcutta and IIM Ahmedabad.

The institute offers postgraduate, doctoral, executive education and certificate programmes.

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