Cooperatives are a concept of cooperation based on the voluntary contributions of their members and democratic decision-making that has been tried and tested worldwide. Therefore, the main subject of the institute’s work is the scientific examination of current problems and fundamental questions from all areas of cooperatives and — more fundamentally — of cooperation research. In this context, specifics and innovative forms of cooperation are empirically and theoretically addressed and further developed.
Since 1991, the basic funding of the institute has been provided by the members of the sponsoring society. These are individuals, cooperatives and their associations, as well as association partners of the cooperative organization in Germany.
Research activities are financed through third-party funds raised by the Institute’s members from research funding institutions such as the German Research Foundation, the DZ-BANK Foundation, the European Union, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). At the same time, scientific studies and the tasks of clarifying fundamental questions from cooperative practice are also repeatedly assigned to the Institute and its members for processing.
In its tasks, the Institute always aims at a close practical relevance of its scientific work.
A prerequisite for practice-oriented research is close contact with cooperatives and their organizations. This is the only way to obtain information on the areas in which research is needed, and the only way to ensure that research is relevant to practice. The Institute’s regular conferences and lecture series are therefore an important supplement to the research work.
Recruiting New Members in Cooperatives – A Study with a Special Focus on the Relevance of Strategies and Concepts for Credit Cooperatives (2026)
Duration: April 2026 until November 2026
Funded by: Bundesverband der Deutschen Volksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken e.V.
Partner: Bundesverband der Deutschen Volksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken e.V.
For several years now, credit cooperatives have faced significant challenges: demographic change, shifting customer expectations, digital competition, structural changes in the financial sector, and societal crises such as the financial market crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, and geopolitical uncertainties. While credit cooperatives, with their distinctive principles of regionality, membership, and democratic governance, form a stable pillar of the financial system, they are simultaneously under considerable competitive pressure.
A key element of their long-term sustainability is the successful recruitment of new members and the retention of existing customers. Although numerous measures already exist within the cooperative financial network, there is still a lack of a systematic perspective that goes beyond the group and Germany, highlighting which potentially transferable concepts are effective in other countries and industries.
Objectives:
- Identification and evaluation of successful strategies for member acquisition and retention in credit cooperatives abroad and other cooperative organizations outside the credit sector in Germany.
- Discussion of the transferability of the identified success factors to the banking sector and formulation of concrete practice-oriented recommendations.
Expected Results:
The study aims to identify, in a report, the key success factors for member recruitment by credit cooperatives outside the cooperative financial group in Germany and cooperatives in other sectors in Germany. Furthermore, a pattern of recurring external influencing factors is to be identified, and recommendations for strategic measures by credit cooperatives will be formulated.
Contact: Prof. Dr. Markus Hanisch
Team: Kira Lutz, Dr. Agustina Malvido, Gereon Wintz
Erasmus+: Good Marketing and Branding Practices in Agricultural Cooperatives (2024-2026)
Duration: November 2024 until November 2026
Funded by: European Commission
The specific objectives of our project are to create and disseminate 3 professional educational resources to ease the digital transition, facilitate entry into new global markets, enhance cooperation perception among farmers and consumers, and increase coop products market share. We aim at training 75 participants to be proficient experts in marketing and branding specialized in 2nd and 3rd grade cooperatives, improving their strategic capabilities and prepare them to transfer the knowledge to less experienced coop representants from partner countries.
The expected project outcomes are:
- Develop and disseminate 3 relevant open-source marketing and branding educational resources, specialized in crop sector cooperatives, to improve skills of young managers and experts.
- Train 75 members from partner countries in marketing and branding for agri-coop, empowering them to become trainers themselves.
- Increase the market share of coop agri-food products and consumer trust with at least 5%.
- Increase visibility of 3rd coops from partners countries.
Partners:
- National Branch Union of Cooperatives in the Vegetable Sector (Romania)
- Dalum Academy of Agricultural Business (Denmark)
- HollandDoor Cooperative U.A. (Netherlands).
Please visit the project’s official website to find out more about its results:
ATRAKTIV (Building Transformative Capacities to Activate Regional Innovation Systems) (2022-2025)
Duration: September 2022 until August 2025
Funded by: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Partners: Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (IfL), University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Görlitz, Institute for Social Innovation (ISInova), Centre for Rural Development (SLE)
Innovations play a crucial role in the future viability of cities and regions as drivers of societal transformation processes. Current findings from the literature show that understanding the economy, technology, and growth as drivers of innovation fails to capture the transformation capacity of societies. This is because research underestimates the significance of sustainable and public welfare-oriented thinking and acting for transformation. Moreover, despite their potential for managing transformation processes, these modes of action are insufficiently addressed in innovation research.
The project focuses on transformative capacities to address the research gap. Transformative capacities describe the ability of societies to initiate and shape transformation processes. The study focuses on four peripheral, rural regions without a substantial economic center.
The project answers the following research questions:
- What characteristics distinguish transformative from traditional innovation systems, and which components determine the societal innovation capacity for shaping transformative change?
- How can these components be captured and assessed, and how do they shape and differ in “structurally weak” regions?
- How are actors and institutions connected to these components, what is their understanding of innovation, transformation, and regional development, and what values, narratives, practices, and forms of organization do they share and pursue?
- Which spatial and temporal innovation patterns and dynamics of transformative innovation systems can be identified, and what role do endogenous and contextual factors play in the regions?
To answer the research questions, ATRAKTIV follows a theory-driven, comparative case study approach using quantitative and qualitative social research methods.
Engagement-Promoting Infrastructures for Citizen Cooperatives (2022-2023)
Duration: October 2022 until March 2023
Funded by: German Foundation for Engagement and Volunteering
Partners: innova eG, IDZ e.V., ZiviZ gGmbH
In the last two decades, citizens’ cooperatives have established themselves as a new form of organization for civic engagement. Compared to a classic cooperative, a citizens’ cooperative aims to contribute to the community. This is a relatively new field of research at the interface of cooperatives and civil society. So far, the literature lacks clear consensus on which measures are aimed at and taken up by citizens’ cooperatives regarding engagement-promoting infrastructure.
The research project aims to link existing engagement-promoting infrastructures more closely with civic organizations. Moreover, the project seeks to determine to what extent civic organizations can be considered engagement infrastructures. The study examines which offers of engagement-promoting infrastructures were available to and used by the civic groups during their founding and development. Additionally, the study analyses which specific needs of the Civic Groups could not be covered by engagement-promoting infrastructures. Data will be collected through a survey (ZiviZ) and expert interviews in six case study regions.
The findings from the survey will be used to identify relevant support services for citizens’ cooperatives, existing needs, and potential for further support measures in infrastructures that promote engagement. In addition, the influence of existing support services on the founding and development of citizens’ cooperatives will be investigated. The findings will lead to a practical guide for engagement support infrastructures, which will be published at the end of the project.
The results were presented to interested practitioners and the professional public in a transfer workshop at the conference “Mit Bürgergenossenschaften den ländlichen Raum entwickeln” (Developing Rural Areas With Citizen Cooperatives) in Loccum from 25-26 May 2023 (https://www.loccum.de/tagungen/2322/).
Results:
Digital, state-of-the-art agribusiness education for farmer led enterprises in the agri-food value chain (2021-2022)
Duration: November 2019 until April 2022
Funded by: European Commission
The specific objectives of our project are the following: to design and develop a European curricula for higher education focusing on cooperative business models in the agriculture sector; to provide education that is necessary for agriculture students to further work as leaders, managers, staff, consultants, members of co-operative enterprises in the agriculture sector; to include the use of open, digital multi-disciplinary learning; to promote excellence in teaching and skill development through the training of academics from participating higher education institutions in the field of cooperative business models in the agri-business sector; and to exchange good practices in new and innovative pedagogies of related topics.
The main outputs are:
- a set of 14 case studies gathering best practices related to farmers/producers cooperatives in the involved countries (Romania, Spain and Germany), in different sectors, fruit and vegetables, dairy, livestock etc. and with different functions marketing, credit, insurance, procurement, etc.;
- videos capturing business models and management practices of cooperative enterprises:
- teaching materials on agricultural economics, management, legal and institutional aspects and public policies.
Partners: University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Bucharest (Romania), Solidarity Lab (Asociatia Laboratorul de Solidaritate) (Romania), University of Almeria (Spain)
Development of strategies to promote the transfer of scientific research results to rural areas (2017-2020)
Duration: June 2017 until May 2020
Funded by: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Innovations and the production of new knowledge are predominantly associated with urban areas, which are also given priority support. However, not urban but rural areas dominate the landscape in Germany and are equally relevant for the country’s sustainable future and competitiveness. However, the creation of equal living conditions in rural areas is hampered by economic, structural and geographical challenges. Many rural communities are particularly affected by demographic change. On the other hand, rural areas have a wide range of endogenous potentials that have so far been insufficiently exploited and researched, especially through networks and coalitions of regional actors along economic and social relations.
The BMBF-funded research project “Broadening Horizons – Changing Perspectives” analyses needs, conditions and obstacles for knowledge and technology transfer in rural areas and develops measures and recommendations for action for the promotion of region-specific social and technical innovations in cooperation with local actors. In addition to the Division of Economics of Agricultural Cooperatives of the Humboldt- Universität zu Berlin (HU), the Fraunhofer Center for Responsible Research and Innovation (CeRRI), the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (IFL), the Institute for Social Innovation e.V. (ISInova), as well as the Fraunhofer Institute for Scientific-Technical Trend Analyses (INT) are involved in this interdisciplinary project.
The HU sub-project, entitled “Innovation via interfaces”, is dedicated to the role of cooperatives in discovering and disseminating innovations in rural areas. For this purpose, existing research results will be analysed, empirical data will be collected and analysed by means of a systematic qualitative case comparison (QCA) in order to identify necessary and sufficient conditions for a successful knowledge and technology transfer. Besides gaining new insights into innovation processes and networks, the aim is to create a more complex understanding of innovation and thus to reassess the potential of rural areas.
Partners: Fraunhofer Center for Responsible Research and Innovation (CeRRI), Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde (IFL), Institut für Sozialinnovation e.V. (ISInova), Fraunhofer Institut für Naturwissenschaftlich-Technische Trendanalysen (INT)
Contact: Prof. Dr. Markus Hanisch
Team: Katrin Martens (Verlinkung), Anke Wolff (Verlinkung)
Project Publications:
Wolf, A., Martens, K. (2019): Innovation durch Kooperation – Das Genossen-schaftsmodell im Fokus. In: Schroth, F., Schraudner, M. (Hrsg.): Horizonte erweitern, Perspektiven ändern: Ländliche Räume als Innovationsräume verstehen und fördern, S. 25 -35.
Does electrical power produced by cooperatives have a higher value? (2011-2025)
Duration: November 2011 until July 2015
Funded by: DZ BANK-Foundation
In many co-operative sectors, the number of new enterprises is declining. Due to consolidations even the absolute number of cooperatives is declining. One sector, however, is resisting this trend and is recording high growth rates in capital, members and newly founded companies – the energy cooperatives.
In research, energy cooperatives are often viewed in isolation from other forms of organisation. This leads to the fact that the question of the comparative advantage of the cooperative compared to other forms of organisation and from the point of view of the members and potential customers is not or only insufficiently asked. There are no analyses on how potential new members of energy cooperatives evaluate the benefits of cooperative energy. We try to close this gap.
We investigate why people choose to purchase electricity from a cooperative and even become owners of their electricity supplier. The project uses choice experiments to investigate the benefits of individual governance mechanisms of the cooperative for electricity customers. In addition to the scientific questions, another focus of the project is the derivation of recommendations for action for policy and practice.
Contact: Prof. Dr. Markus Hanisch
Team: Jakob Müller, Jens Rommel und Julian Sagebiel
Project Publications:
Höfer, H.-H.; Rommel, J. (2015). Internal governance and member investment behavior in energy cooperatives: An experimental approach. Utilities Policy 36, 52-56.
Müller, J. R.; Dorniok, D.; Flieger, B.; Holstenkamp, L.; Mey, F.; Radtke, J. (2015). Energiegenossenschaften: Das Erfolgsmodell braucht neue Dynamik. GAIA, Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society 24(2), 96-101.
Müller, J. R.; Sagebiel, J. (2015). Machen Genossenschaften Ökostrom wertvoller? Zeitschrift für öffentliche und gemeinnützige Unternehmen 38(2-3), 226-237.
Rommel, J.; Sagebiel, J.; Müller, J. R. (2016). Quality Uncertainty and the Market for Renewable Energy: Evidence from German Consumers. Renewable Energy 94, 106-113.
Sagebiel, J.; Müller, J. R.; Rommel, J. (2014): Are Consumers Willing to Pay More for Electricity from Cooperatives? Results from an Online Choice Experiment in Germany. Energy Research & Social Science 2, 90–101.
Yildiz, Ö.; Rommel, J.; Debor, S.; Holstenkamp, L.; Mey, F.; Müller, J. R.; Radtke, J.; Rognli, J. (2015). Renewable Energy Cooperatives as Gatekeepers or Facilitators? Recent Developments in Germany and a Multidisciplinary Research Agenda. Energy Research & Social Science 6, 59-73.
New perspectives at the interface between civic engagement and social entrepreneurship (2015-2019)
Duration: September 2015 until March 2019
Funded by: Herbert-Quandt-Foundation
The research project examined cooperatives as a promising organizational model for the provision of services of general interest, especially in rural areas. The project provides a theoretical and empirical contribution to explain the current development of community-based organizations in the areas of social services, local government and infrastructure. The aim is to identify existing needs for action as well as appropriate measures to support the emergence and development of these cooperatives.
At the interface between engagement research, social enterprise research and cooperative science, the research project is dedicated to the question of the extent to which civic engagement in the provision of social and community services in the form of cooperatives can prove to be a viable and sustainable organizational model. The aim is to make a theoretical and empirical contribution to the analysis of such cooperatives that are dedicated to social and communal tasks. The potential of these enterprises to jointly achieve economic and social goals and thus to act as infrastructures for the long-term commitment of civic engagement will be analysed. The advantages and disadvantages of the cooperative organization for the commitment and promotion of civic engagement are analyzed and recommendations for policy and cooperative management were formulated.
Contact: Prof. Dr. Markus Hanisch
Team: Marleen Thürling (marleen.thuerling@hu-berlin.de)
Project Publications:
Hanisch, Markus/Thürling, Marleen (2020): Genossenschaften stärken das Gemeinwesen, LandInForm – Magazin für Ländliche Räume, Ausgabe 1.20, Internetquelle: https://www.netzwerk-laendlicher-raum.de/fileadmin/sites/ELER/Dateien/05_Service/Publikationen/LandInForm/2020/LandInForm_20_1_Perspektiven.pdf
Thürling, Marleen (2020): Sozialgenossenschaften als gemeinwirtschaftliche Unternehmen: Begriffsbestimmung und Typologie, Zeitschrift für öffentliche und gemeinwirtschaftliche Unternehmen (im Erscheinen).
Thürling, Marleen (2018): Genossenschaften für das Gemeinwohl, PerspektivePraxis 4/2018. URL: http://www.perspektivepraxis.de/perspektivepraxis.nsf/PP/001804Artikel/$FILE/Genossenschaften_fuer_das_Gemeinwohl.pdf
Thürling, Marleen (2019): Zur Gründung von gemeinwesenorientierten Genossenschaften – Eine vergleichende Regionalanalyse, Zeitschrift für das gesamte Genossenschaftswesen (ZfgG) 69(2): 85–116.
Support for Farmers' Cooperatives (2010-2012)
Funded by: European Commission
Duration: December 2010 until November 2012
The imbalances in bargaining power between the contracting parties in the food supply chain have drawn much scholarly attention but have also been closely examined by policy makers. The European Commission is committed to facilitate the restructuring of the agricultural sector by encouraging the creation of voluntary agricultural producer organisations. DG Agriculture and Rural Development has launched a large study, “Support for Farmers’ Cooperatives” (hereafter: SFC), to provide background knowledge that will help farmers organise themselves in cooperatives as a means to consolidate their market orientation and so generate a solid market income.
Partners: Jos Bijman, Wageningen University, The Netherlands, Constantine Iliopoulos, Agricultural Economics Research Institute, Greece, Krijn J. Poppe, LEI Wageningen UR, The Netherlands, Caroline Gijselinckx
HIVA – Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, Konrad Hagedorn, George W.J. Hendrikse, Rotterdam School of Management Erasmus University, The Netherlands, Rainer Kühl, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany, Petri Ollila, University of Helsinki, Finland, Perttu Pyykkönen, Pellervo, Economic Research PTT, Finland, Ger van der Sangen, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Contact: Prof. Dr. Markus Hanisch (E-Mail)
Team: Dr. Julian Sagebiel, Dr. Jens Rommel, Malte Müller
2012
Hagedorn, K.; Hanisch, M. (2014): The Emergence and Role of Farmers’ Cooperatives in Central and Eastern European Countries: A comparative case study analysis. In: Laurinkari, J.; Schediwy, R.; Todev, T. (Eds.): Genossenschaftswissenschaft zwischen Theorie und Geschichte. Festschrift für Prof. Dr. Johann Brazda zum 60. Geburtstag. Europäischer Hochschulverlag, Bremen, 589-619.
Boevsky, I.; Hanisch, M.; Sagebiel, J. (2012): Support for Farmers’ Cooperatives; Sectoral Case Study Report, The role of post socialist production cooperatives in Bulgaria. Wageningen: Wageningen UR.
Hanisch, M., Müller, M. (2012): Support for Farmers’ Cooperatives; Case Study Report, Ownership and control rights transformations: The evolution of the Deutsches Milchkontor GmbH. Wageningen: Wageningen UR.
Hanisch, M.; Müller, M.; Rommel, J.; Sagebiel, J.; Karikallio, H.; Pakarinen, S.; Pyykkönen, P. (2012): Support for Farmers’ Cooperatives; Sectoral Case Study Report, Coop effect on price stabilization in the dairy sector. Wageningen: Wageningen UR.
Hanisch, M.; Rommel, J. (2012): Support for Farmers’ Cooperatives; Transnational Case Study Report, Producer Organizations in European Dairy Farming. Wageningen: Wageningen UR
The potential of cooperative associations and consumer collective action for stabilizing food and energy –supply in the Greater Hyderabad Agglomeration (2008-2013)
Funded by: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Duration: November 2008 until June 2013
The Sustainable Hyderabad Project (SHP) was a collaborative research effort and has over the course of its implementation generated knowledge towards improved understanding of the problems of climate change and energy efficiency in the complex transformation process that Hyderabad is undergoing (Hagedorn and Zikos 2013). It has further identified strategies and potentials to mitigate emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) and vulnerabilities of various supply systems and social groups to climate change impacts.
The project part titled: The potential of cooperative associations and consumer collective action for stabilizing food and energy supply in the Greater Hyderabad Agglomeration (KONGENO) was designed to ensure that aspects of collective organization, coordination and cooperation would be given sufficient room in both analytical steps and practical projects. The goal was that Work Package 4 (Cooperative Strategies) would identify existing cooperative practices, organizations respective laws and cooperative routines in Hyderabad and analyse their value for climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies and then inspire the agendas of other project parts to take those into consideration.
Work Package 7 (Cooperative Institutions and Governance Structures) was meant to analyse the extent to which problems of important stakeholders in the climate change process could be solved by implementing collective action based projects in The Greater Hyderabad Agglomeration. The idea was to put some of the findings of the analyses to test by means of pilot projects, collect experience with their implementation and draft policy briefs. Apart from practical implementation of the lessons learnt from analysing collective action institutions and organizations, a focus of Work Package 7 was to deliver state of the artmethods for evaluation and make results of collective action projects measureable.
Partners: Albert-Ludwids-Universität Freiburg, Nexus Institut fürKooperationsmanagement und inderdisziplinäre Forschung GmbH, Potsdam Institut für Klimafolgenforschung e.V.
Contact: Prof. Dr. Markus Hanisch
Team: Reinhold Wilhelm, Dr. Jens Rommel, Dr. Jennifer Meyer-Ueding, Dr. Zakir Hussain, Julian Sagebiel, Nina Osswald, Saikumar Bharamappanavara, Sophia Opperskalski, Malte Müller
Project Publications:
2014
Bharamappanavara, S.; Kumar, N. (2014): Targeting the Poor for Rural Development–Review of International Experience on Microcredit Programmes. Journal of Global Economy 10(3), 177-190.
Sagebiel, J.; Kimmich, Ch. (2014): Building local capacities to improve the quality of electricity for agriculture and to enhance energy efficiency. In Mahrin, B.: Capacity Development: Approaches for Future Megacities, Research for the Sustainable Development of Megacities of Tomorrow, Vol. 5. Jovis Verlag: Berlin, 38–46.
Sagebiel, J.; Rommel, K. (2014): Preferences for Electricity Supply Attributes in Megacities: Policy Implications from a Discrete Choice Experiment of Private Households in Hyderabad, India. Energy for Sustainable Development 21, 89–99.
2013
Bharamappanavara, Saikumar C. (2013): Growth and Outreach of Self Help Groups Microcredit Models in India: A Literature Insight. International Journal of Social and Economic Research 3(1), 1-14.
Bharamappanavara, Saikumar C., Mundinamani, S.M., Kiresur, V. R., and Naik, B.K. (2013): Resource use efficiency and constraints Faced by the Farmers in the Tank Commands: The Case of North Eastern Karnataka (India). Journal of Rural Development 32(3), 311-320.
Hasanabadi, M. S.; Bharamappanavara, Saikumar C., Handigol, J. A.; Basavaraj, H. (2013): Analysis of risks involved in onion crop (allium cepa) production and marketing by crop insured and non- insured farmers. SAARJ Journal on Banking & Insurance Research 2(3), 76-83.
Kimmich, Ch.; Sagebiel, J. (2013): Peri-urban linkages: Improving energy efficiency in irrigation to enable sustainable urban transition. In Eltrop, L.; Telsnig, T.; Fahl, U.: Energy and Sun: Sustainable Solutions for Future Megacities. Research for the Sustainable Development of Megacities of Tomorrow, Vol. 1. Jovis Verlag: Berlin, 37-46.
Sagebiel, J.; Kohler, F.; Rommel, J.; Goyal, V. K. (2013): Governance of Solar Photovoltaic Off-grid Technologies in Rural Andhra Pradesh: Some Implications from the Field. In Eltrop, L.; Telsnig, T.; Fahl, U.: Energy and Sun: Sustainable Solutions for Future Megacities. Research for the Sustainable Development of Megacities of Tomorrow, Vol. 1. Jovis Verlag: Berlin, 27-36.
2012
Hanisch, M.; Rommel, J.; Müller, M. (2012): Variation in Farm Gate Milk Prices and the Cooperative Yardstick Revisited: Panel Evidence from the European Dairy Sectors. Paper Presented at the 52nd Annual Conference of the German Society of Economic and Social Sciences in Agriculture (GeWiSoLa), September 26–28, 2012, Hohenheim, Germany.
Hanisch, M.; Sagebiel, J. (2012): Support for Farmers’ Cooperatives; Sectoral Case Study Report, The role of post‐socialist production cooperatives in East Germany. Wageningen: Wageningen UR.
2011
Bharamappanavara, Saikumar C., Hasanabadi, Mallikarjun S., Handigol, Jayashree A., Yeledalli, R. A. (2011): Alternative Model For Crop Insurance – A Case of Onion Crop (Allium Cepa). Journal of European Economy, Vol. 10: 66-78. Special issue, 2011, Publication of Ternopil National Economic University, ISSN 1684-906X.
Bharamappanavara, Saikumar C. (2011): Farming Systems in the Tank Commands in North Eastern Karnataka (India): An Economic Analysis of Jala Samvardhane Yojana Sangha Managed Tanks. Saarbrücken: Lambert Academic Publishing.
Bharamappanavara, Saikumar C.; Hanisch, M.; Shetty, N.K.; Kumar, P.N.O. (2011): Self-Help Group Microcredit Delivery Models In Karnataka (India): An Econometric Study of Factors Influencing Performance. International Journal of Microfinance Institutions 1(1), 90-101.
Bharamappanavara, Saikumar C. (2011): Self Help Group Organisations in Hyderabad Megacity (India): Study of Institutions and Governance, Credit, Incentives and Collective Action. In: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) (ed): Conference Proceedings “Future Megacities in Balance”, Young Researchers’ Symposium, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Vol. 66. October 9-10, 2010, Essen.
Rommel, K.; Sagebiel, J. (2011): Nachhaltige Entwicklung von Megacities am Beispiel Südindien – Was können Einspeisetarife dazu beitragen? In H.-G. Servatius, U. Schneidewind, D. Rohlfing (eds.): Smart Energy. Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 431–451.
Rommel, K.; Sagebiel, J. (2011): Can consumer preferences help to design Feed In Tariffs? An Investigation from a Choice Experiment in India. Paper presented at the International Conference of the IAEE, 19-23 June 2011, Stockholm, Sweden.
Sagebiel, J. (2011): Comparing the latent class model with the random parameters logit: A choice experiment analysis of highly heterogeneous electricity consumers in Hyderabad, India. Paper presented at the International Choice Modelling Conference, 4-6 July 2011, Leeds, UK.
Sagebiel, J. (2011): Consumer Preferences for Improvements of Power Supply Quality – Results from a Choice Experiment in Hyderabad, India. In: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) (ed): Conference Proceedings “Future Megacities in Balance”, Young Researchers’ Symposium, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Vol. 66. October 9-10, 2010, Essen.
2010
Bharamappanavara, Saikumar C. (2010): The Performance of Microcredit Organisations. A Comparative Perspective. (University Meets Microfinance 3). Stuttgart: ibidem.
Making Rural Services Work for the Poor (2007-2008)
The Role of Rural Institutions and their Governance for Agriculture-Led Development
Funded by: BMZ and IFPRI
Duration: May 2007 until January 2008
The overall goal of the project is to improve the livelihoods of poor households in rural areas by improving the provision of services that are essential for agricultural and rural development. The purpose of the project is to provide policy-relevant knowledge on strategies that empower the rural poor—men and women—to participate in local governance, demand the services they need, and hold service providers accountable. Research for this project will be conducted in four countries: Uganda, Guatemala, Kyrgyzstan and India. The project will cover the economic and social services that allow the rural poor to make use of agricultural innovations, become integrated into markets, benefit from the rural transformation and improve their well-being. The project will analyze the role that governance reforms such as decentralization, local leadership, collective action and social learning can play in improving quality and access of the poor to rural services, taking the political dimension of these reforms into account. Special attention will be paid to the role of collective action among farmers in form of associations, producer organizations, cooperatives and self-help groups. The outputs include analytical tools and empirical evidence on strategies to improve local governance and service provision for sustainable agricultural and rural development. Gender-disaggregated governance indicators that measure the performance of rural service provision will also be an output. The project will build capacity among participating institutions such as NARS through training and collaborative research.
Partners: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Contact: Prof. Dr. Markus Hanisch (E-Mail)
Team: Prof. Dr. M. Hanisch, Dr. Johanna Speer, Dr. Nana A. Kwapong, Dr. Wibke Crewett, Dr. Susanne Müller
Publications:
Speer, J.; Hanisch, M. (2014): ¿Puede la gobernanza participativa superar asimetrías de información en los mercados rurales? Un estudio de caso de dos municipios guatemaltecos (Can Participatory Governance Overcome Information Asymmetries in Rural Political Markets? A Case Study of Two Guatemalan Municipalities). Política y gobierno 21(1), 127-158.
Kwapong, N. A.; Hanisch, M. (2013): Cooperatives and Poverty Reduction: A Literature Review. Journal of Rural Cooperation 41(2), 114-146.
2012
Basurto, X.; Speer, J. (2012): Structuring the Calibration of Qualitative Data as Sets for Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). Field Methods 24(2), 155-174. Wageningen: Wageningen UR.
Kwapong, N.A.; Ilukor, J.; Hanisch, M.; Nkonya, E. (2012): Making Rural Services Work for the Poor: Micro-level Evidence from Rural Uganda. World Rural Observations 4(1), 3-11.
Meyer-Ueding, J. (2012): Improving Autonomy in Indian Cooperatives: The Hyderabad Experience. Journal of Cooperative Studies 45(3), 32-42.
Meyer-Ueding, J.; Meyer, M. (2012): Social capital as an effective means against medical exploitation: What civil society can do. Asian Journal of Research in Social Sciences and Humanities 2(12), 23-36.
Speer, J. (2012): Participatory Governance Reform: A Good Strategy for Increasing Government Responisveness and Improving Public Services? World Development 40(12), 2379-2398.
2021-2025
2025
Martens, K., Rogga, S., Borderieux, J., Walthall, B., Vicente-Vicente, J. L., & Piorr, A. (2025). Identifying transformative collective action within the agri-food-system transformation using the proximity approach: Six pathways to progress (Preprint). SSRN. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5747849.
Vicente-Vicente, J. L., Walthall, B., Borderieux, J., Martens, K., & Piorr, A. (2025). Harvesting change: unraveling social-ecological impacts of a food hub (LebensMittelPunkt) through a living lab approach. Ecology and Society, 30(1), 12.
Grohmann, P., & Martens, K. (2025). Transformationsstrategien: Wege aus dem Landnutzungstrilemma. Politische Ökologie, 180(1). https://doi.org/10.14512/POE012025091; abgerufen am 8. Dezember 2025, von https://www.oekom.de/ausgabe/feldversuche-83104.
Martens, K. (2025). Triebfeder für die Transformation: Nachhaltige Landnutzung. In oekom e. V. (Hrsg.), Feldversuche: Wege zu nachhaltiger Landnutzung (Band 180). oekom verlag. https://www.oekom.de/ausgabe/feldversuche-83104.
Kangogo D., Bijman, J., Dentoni, D., & Cecchi, F. (2025). Cooperatives and climate change adaptation: The effects of membership and access to services. In: J. Windsperger, G. Cliquet, O. Galak, & G.W.J. Hendrikse (eds.), “Managing Networks in the Digital Economy: Alliances, Cooperatives, Franchise Chains, and Platforms and Digitalization”. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. Pp 115-144. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-81233-0.
Bizikovaa L., Minah M., & Zoundic Z. (2025). Agricultural Cooperatives. © 2025 Elsevier Inc. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/chapter/referencework/abs/pii/B978044452512300125X?via%3Dihub
2023
Martens, K.; Rogga, S.; Hanisch, M. (2023). Ressourcenbündelung durch Kooperation – der Weg zur nachhaltigen Transformation ländlicher Räume?! Ländlicher Raum, 3, XX.
Vicente-Vicente, J. L.; Borderieux, J.; Martens, K.; González-Rosado, M.; Walthall, B. (2023). Scaling agroecology for food system transformation in metropolitan areas: Agroecological characterization and role of knowledge in community-supported agriculture farms connected to a food hub in Berlin, Germany. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 47(6), 857-889.
Mechri, A.; Hanisch, M.; Hänke H. (2023). The transformative value chain: rethinking food system interventions. Front. Sustain. Food Syst. 7:1149054. doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2023.1149054.
Martens, K.; Rogga, S.; Hardner, U.; Piorr, A. (2023). Examining Proximity Factors in Public-private Collaboration Models for Sustainable Agri-food System Transformation: A Comparative Study of Two Rural Communities. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 7, 1248124.
2022
Martens, K. (2022). Investigating subnational success conditions to foster renewable energy community co-operatives. Energy Policy, 162, 112796.
Vamesu, A.; Marcu, A.; Florea, A. Bercu, F.; Opincaru, I.; Constantin, M.; Giagnocavo, C.; Ortega, C.; Rubio, M.; Hanisch, M. & Malvido, A. (2022): Case studies of cooperatives from Romania, Spain and Germany. CERES Publishing House, Bucharest, ISBN 978-973-40-1157-5 (online).
Florea, A.; Vamesu, A. Bercu, F.; Opincaru, I.; Toma, E.; Ortega, C.; Hanisch, M. & Malvido, A. (2022): Country reports on cooperatives in Romania, Spain and Germany. Guidelines on policies for cooperative producer organizations in Romania. CERES Publishing House Bucharest, ISBN 978-973-40-1158-2 (online).
Ortega, C.; Hanisch, M.; Malvido, A. et al. (2022): Teaching materials on agriculture cooperative enterprises and producer organisations. CERES Publishing House Bucharest, ISBN 978-973-40-1159-9 (online).
2021
Minah, M. (2021): What is the influence of government programs on farmer organizations and their impacts? Evidence from Zambia. Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 1-25. [https://doi.org/10.1111/apce.12316]
Mwambi, M.; Bijman, J. & Gallie, A. (2021): The effect of membership in producer organizations on women’s empowerment: Evidence from Kenya. Women Studies International Forum, 87, July-August, 102492. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2021.102492]
Thürling, M.; Hanisch, M. (2021): Genossenschaften für das Gemeinwesen: Bürgerschaftliches Engagement zur Sicherung der Daseinsvorsorge?. Zeitschrift für Sozialreform (ZSR) 69 (3), S. 1-33.
Widadie, F.; Bijman, J. & Trienekens, J. (2021): Value chain upgrading through producer organisations: linking smallholder vegetable farmers with modern retail markets in Indonesia. International Journal of Food System Dynamics, 12(1), 68-82. [https://doi.org/10.18461/ijfsd.v12i1.76]
2016-2020
2020
Hanisch, Markus; Thürling, Marleen (2020): Genossenschaften stärken das Gemeinwesen. LandInForm – Magazin für Ländliche Räume, Ausgabe 1.20.
Thürling, Marleen (2020): Sozialgenossenschaften als gemeinwirtschaftliche Unternehmen: Begriffsbestimmung und Typologie, Zeitschrift für öffentliche und gemeinwirtschaftliche Unternehmen. ZögU 42 (1-2), 85-103.
Livia Bizikova, Ephraim M. Nkonya, Margitta Minah, Markus Hanisch, Rama Mohana and Rao Turaga (2020): A scoping review of the contributions of farmers’ organizations to smallholder agriculture. Nature Food 1, 620-630.
Martens, K., Wolff, A., & Hanisch, M. (2020): Understanding social innovation processes in rural areas: empirical evidence from social enterprises in Germany. Social Enterprise Journal. Im Druck.
Zscheischler, J., Martens, K. (2020): Von ländlichen Akteuren lernen. In: Land in Form Nr. 4, S. 45.
2019
Martens, K., Kunz, Y., Rosyani, I., & Faust, H. (2019). Environmental Governance Meets Reality: A Micro-Scale Perspective on Sustainability Certification Schemes for Oil Palm Smallholders in Jambi, Sumatra. Society & Natural Resources, 1-17.
Minah, M and Malvido, A. (2019). Mechanisms of Inclusion: Evidence from Zambia’s Farmer Organisations. The European Journal of Development Research. pp 1-23
Thürling, Marleen (2019). Zur Gründung von gemeinwesenorientierten Genossenschaften – Eine vergleichende Regionalanalyse, Zeitschrift für das gesamte Genossenschaftswesen (ZfgG) 69(2): 85–116.
Kunz, Y., Otten, F., Mardiana, R., Martens, K., Roedel, I., & Faust, H. (2019). Smallholder Telecoupling and Climate Governance in Jambi Province, Indonesia. Social Sciences, 8(4), 115
Haunert, N. & Hanisch, M. (2019). Verschenkte Zeit? – zur Motivation und Förderung ehrenamtlichen Engagements in ländlichen Genossenschaften. Zeitschrift für das gesamte Genossenschaftswesen (ZfgG) 69(1): 23-37.
Domwirth, C. Hanisch, M. (2019). Women’s active participation and gender homogeneity: Evidence from the South Indian dairy cooperative sector. Journal of Rural Studies (Elsevier) [https://doi.org/10.1016j.jrurstud.2019.10.005]
2018
Bijman, J. and Hanisch, M. (2018). Living apart together: How are member–cooperative relationships changing within European dairy cooperatives? Berlin Cooperative Papers, No. 71.
Dohmwirth, C.; Hanisch, M. (2018) Women and Collective Action: Lessons From The Indian Dairy Cooperative Sector. Community Development Journal 53(4), 675-693.
Hanisch, M. (2018). Genossenschaftsmolkereien: Hat das Modell noch Zukunft. DLG Mitteilungen 2018, 64-67.
Hanisch, M. (2018). Die Rolle der Genossenschaftsbanken. Innoskop, 6/2018, 22.
Liu, Z.; Rommel, J.; Feng, Sh. (2018). Does It Pay to Participate in Decision-making? Survey Evidence on Land Co-management in Jiangsu Province, China. Ecological Economics 143, 199-209.
Malvido, A.; Hanisch, M.; Rommel, J.; Fulton, M. (2018). Farm Gate Prices for Non-Varietal Wine in Argentina: A Multilevel Comparison of the Prices Paid by Cooperatives and Investor-Oriented Firms. Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization 16(1), Art. 2.
Müller, M.; Rommel, J. (2018). Should I stay or should I go? A behavioral approach to organizational choice in Tajikistan’s agriculture. Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 43(3), 469-486.
Müller, M.; Hanisch, M.; Malvido, A.; Rommel, J.; Sagebiel, J. (2018). The Structural Effect of Cooperatives on Price Volatility in the European Dairy Sector. Applied Economics Letters 25(8), 576-579. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2017.1346358]
Müller, M.; Rommel, J.; Kimmich, Ch. (2018). Farmers’ Adoption of Irrigation Technologies: Experimental Evidence from a Coordination Game with Positive Network Externalities in India. German Economic Review 19(2), 119-139.
Rommel, J.; Hermann, D.; Müller, M.; Mußhoff, O. (2018). Contextual Framing and Monetary Incentives in Field Experiments on Risk Preferences: Evidence from German Farmers. Journal of Agricultural Economics. [https://doi.org/10.1111/1477-9552.12298]
Thürling, Marleen (2018). Gemeinwohl liegt im Trend. In: Enorm Weconomy, 1/2018, 22.
2017
Hanisch, M. (2017). Co-operatives and the Transformation of the German Energy Sector. In: Michie, J.; Blasi, J. R.; Borzaga, C. (Eds.): The Oxford Handbook of Mutual, Co-Operative, and Co-Owned Business.
Ghosh, R.; Goyal, Y.; Rommel, J.; Sagebiel, J. (2017). Are small firms willing to pay for improved power supply? Evidence from a contingent valuation study in India. Energy Policy 109, 659-665.
Liu, Z.; Rommel, J.; Feng, Sh.; Hanisch, M. (2017). Can land transfer through land co-operatives foster off-farm employment in China? China Economic Review 45, 35-44.
Rommel, J.; Hermann, D.; Müller, M.; Mußhoff, O. (2017). Comprehension in Risk Elicitation Experiments. Applied Economics Letters 24(9), 627-634.
Rommel, K.; Sagebiel, J. (2017). Preferences for micro-cogeneration in Germany: Policy implications for grid expansion from a discrete choice experiment. Applied Energy 206, 612-622.
Sagebiel, J.; Glenk, K.; Meyerhoff, J. (2017). Spatially Explicit Demand for Afforesta-tion. Forest Policy and Economics 78, 190-199.
Sagebiel, J. (2017). Valuing improvements in electricity supply using discrete choice ex-periments: Preferences of private households in India and Germany. Dissertation. edoc Server der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Sagebiel, J. (2017). Preference Heterogeneity in Energy Discrete Choice Experiments: A Review on Methods for Model Selection. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 96, 804-811.
Stamm, J.; Dittrich, A.; Spänhoff, B.; Berendonk, T.; Bilinski, W.; Branß, T.; Ettmer, B.; Haase, U.; Hirschfeld, J.; Lindow, M.; Mietz, S.; Müller, N.; Orlik, S.; Richter, L.; Sagebiel, J.; Stengert, M.; Stratmann, L.; Seidel, M.; Worischka, S.; Lüderitz, V. (2017). Lösungen für ein regionales ökologisches Hochwasserrisikomanagement und eine naturnahe Gewässerentwicklung. Korrespondenz Wasserwirtschaft KW 4/2017, 229-237.
2016
Bharamappanavara, S.; Hanisch, M.; Rommel, J. (2016). The Effect of Heterogeneity and Freedom of Participation on Collective Action in Rural Self-Help Groups: Combining In-depth Interviews with Curve Estimation. Journal of Mixed Methods Research 10(2), 147-167.
Hanisch, M. (2016). Cooperatives in rural development and poverty alleviation. In: Bijman, J.; Muradian, R.; Schuurman, J. (Eds.): Cooperatives, Economic Democratization and Rural Development. Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, 48-74.
2011-2015
2015
Blisse, H. (2015): Anwalt der Genossenschaften und ihrer Mitglieder. Zeitschrift für das gesamte Genossenschaftswesen, 65. Jg., H. 1, S. 59-68.
Malvido Pérez Carletti, A.; Hanisch, M.; Rommel, J. (2015). Cooperatives and Farmgate Prices for Agricultural Produce: Multilevel Evidence on Non-varietal Wine in Mendoza, Argentina. Paper accepted for presentation at the Agri4D Conference, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, September 23-24, 2015 in Uppsala, Sweden.
Sagebiel, J., Kimmich, Ch., Müller, M., Hanisch, M., & Gilani, V. (2016): Enhancing Energy Efficiency in Irrigation: A Socio-Technical Approach in South India (1st ed.). Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer.
2014
Hagedorn, K. (2014): Post-socialist Farmers’ Cooperatives in Central and Eastern Europe. Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (APCE) 85 (4), December 2014 (Special Issue).
Bijman, J.; Hanisch, M.; van der Sangen, G. (2014): Shifting Control? The Changes of Internal Governance in Agricultural Cooperatives in the EU. In: Bijman, J.; Iliopuolos, C. (Eds.) (2014): Farmers’ Cooperatives in the EU: Policies, Strategies, and Organization. Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics 85(4), 641-661.
Hagedorn, K.; Hanisch, M. (2014): The Emergence and Role of Farmers’ Cooperatives in Central and Eastern European Countries: A comparative case study analysis. In: Laurinkari, J.; Schediwy, R.; Todev, T. (Edt.): Genossenschaftswissenschaft zwischen Theorie und Geschichte. Festschrift für Prof. Dr. Johann Brazda zum 60. Geburtstag. Europäischer Hochschulverlag, Bremen, 589-619.
Hussain, Z.; Hanisch, M. (2014): Dynamics of peri-urban agricultural development and farmers’ adaptive behaviour in the emerging megacity of Hyderabad, India. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 57(4), 495-515.
Speer, J.; Hanisch, M. (2014): ¿Puede la gobernanza participativa superar asimetrías de información en los mercados rurales? Un estudio de caso de dos municipios guatemaltecos (Can Participatory Governance Overcome Information Asymmetries in Rural Political Markets? A Case Study of Two Guatemalan Municipalities). Política y gobierno 21(1), 127-158.
Blisse, H. (2014): Central cooperative bank and local cooperative banks on their way to an integrated system of banks (2009-2012) – Position of points for the Austrian Volksbanks. In: International Interdisciplinary Journal of Scientific Research, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 26-35.
Brazda, J., Blisse, H. (2014): Genossenschaften und Sozialunternehmertum historisch-aktuell. In: Brinkmann, Volker (Hrsg.): Sozialunternehmertum. Grundlagen der Sozialen Arbeit, Bd. 34. Baltmannsweiler: Schneider Verlag Hohengehren, S. 193-203.
Göler von Ravensburg, B. (2014): Schülergenossenschaften. Pädagogische Potenziale genossenschaftlich organisierter Schülerfirmen; Marburger Schriften zur Genossenschaftlichen Kooperation, Band 113, Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden/ Marburg, 2014, 320 S.
Mändle, M. (2014): Genossenschaftliche Identität in der Dynamik des Marktes – Betrachtungen zum Wesenskern der Wohnungsgenossenschaft, in: Juhani Laurinkari, Robert Schediwy und Tode Todev (Hrsg.): Genossenschaftswissenschaft zwischen Theorie und Geschichte, Festschrift für Johann Brazda zum 60. Geburtstag, Bremen 2014, S. 645–656.
2013
Artis, A., Blisse, H. (2013): Innovative approaches to generating and using cooperative capital – Observations from France and Germany. In: Goglio, Silvio; Alexopoulos, Yiorgos (Ed.): Financial Cooperatives and Local Development. Routledge Studies in Development Economics, Vol. 98. London, New York: Routledge, pp. 162-175.
Hagedorn, K. (2013): Natural Resource Management: the role of cooperative institutions and governance. Journal of Entrepreneurial and Organizational Diversity 2, Issue 1 (2013): 101-121.
Hagedorn, K. (2013): Sustainable Natural Resource Use – a Priority for Cooperative Governance. In: Johann Brazda, Johann; Dellinger, Markus; Rößl, Dietmar (Hrsg.). Genossenschaften im Fokus einer neuen Wirtschaftspolitik. Bericht der XVII. Internationalen Genossenschaftswissenschaftlichen Tagung (IGT). Wien, Österreich. Teilband II. Wien, Lit Verlag: 677.
Hanisch, M.; Rommel, J.; Müller, M. (2013): The Cooperative Yardstick Revisited: Panel Evidence from the European Dairy Sectors. Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization 11(1), 151-162.
Kwapong, N. A.; Hanisch, M. (2013): Cooperatives and Poverty Reduction: A Literature Review. Journal of Rural Cooperation 41(2), 114-146.
Mändle, M. (2013): The Economics of Housing Co-operatives Externalities, in: International Journal of Co-operative Management, Vol. 6, No. 2, September 2013, S. 25–32.
2012
Bijman, J.; van der Sangen, G.; Hanisch, M. (2012): Exploring Innovations in Internal Governance in European Agricultural Cooperatives. Paper presented at the Colloque International Diversité et Durabilité des Modèles Agricoles Coopératifs dans un Contexte de Crises de la Mondialisation, November 6-7, 2012, Paris, France.
Boevsky, I.; Hanisch, M.; Sagebiel, J. (2012): Support for Farmers’ Cooperatives; Sectoral Case Study Report, The role of post socialist production cooperatives in Bulgaria. Wageningen: Wageningen UR.
Hanisch, M.; Ihm, M. (2012): Genossenschaftliche Antworten auf Globale Herausforderungen. Agrarsoziale Gesellschaft – Ländlicher Raum 01/2012, 32-34.
Hanisch, M., Müller, M. (2012): Support for Farmers’ Cooperatives; Case Study Report, Ownership and control rights transformations: The evolution of the Deutsches Milchkontor GmbH. Wageningen: Wageningen UR.
Hanisch, M.; Müller, M.; Rommel, J.; Sagebiel, J.; Karikallio, H.; Pakarinen, S.; Pyykkönen, P.(2012): Support for Farmers’ Cooperatives; Sectoral Case Study Report, Coop effect on price stabilization in the dairy sector. Wageningen: Wageningen UR.
Hanisch, M.; Osswald, N. (2012): Community-Supported Agriculture and Consumer Cooperatives in India. Paper presented at the Conference Cooperative Responses to Global Challenges, 21-23 March, 2012. Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Germany.
Hanisch, M.; Rommel, J. (2012): Support for Farmers’ Cooperatives; Transnational Case Study Report,Producer Organizations in European Dairy Farming. Wageningen: Wageningen UR.
Hanisch, M.; Rommel, J.; Müller, M. (2012): Variation in Farm Gate Milk Prices and the Cooperative Yardstick Revisited: Panel Evidence from the European Dairy Sectors. Paper Presented at the 52nd Annual Conference of the German Society of Economic and Social Sciences in Agriculture (GeWiSoLa), September 26–28, 2012, Hohenheim, Germany.
Hanisch, M.; Sagebiel, J. (2012): Support for Farmers’ Cooperatives; Sectoral Case Study Report, The role of post‐socialist production cooperatives in East Germany. Wageningen: Wageningen UR.
Kimmich, Ch.; Janetschek, H.; Meyer-Ohlendorf, L.; Meyer-Ueding, J.; Sagebiel, J.; Reusswig, F.; Rommel, K.; Hanisch, M. (2012): Methods for Stakeholder Analysis: Exploring actor constellations in transition and change processes towards sustainable resource use and the case of Hyderabad, India. Emerging megacities 1/2009. Europäischer Hochschulverlag, Bremen.
Kwapong, N.A.; Ilukor, J.; Hanisch, M.; Nkonya, E. (2012): Making Rural Services Work for the Poor: Micro-level Evidence from Rural Uganda. World Rural Observations 4(1), 3-11.
2011
Bharamappanavara, Saikumar C.; Hanisch, M.; Shetty, N.K.; Kumar, P.N.O. (2011): Self-Help Group Microcredit Delivery Models In Karnataka (India): An Econometric Study of Factors Influencing Performance. International Journal of Microfinance Institutions 1(1), 90-101.
Blisse, H.; Hanisch, M. (2011): Bankengruppen übergreifende Tendenzen im deutschen Banksystem. Bankhistorisches Archiv – Banking and Finance in Historical Perspective 37(1).
Mallegowda, R.; Hussain, Z.; Hanisch, M. (2011): Pesticide Residues in Urban Water Bodies: Organic Farming as a Community-Based Mitigation Strategy in Peri-Urban Hyderabad. Paper accepted for presentation at the 13th Biennial Conference of the IASC from January 10th-14th, Hyderabad, India.
Meyer-Ueding, J.; Rommel, J.; Hanisch, M. (2011): The role of social capital and further assets for collective action and user participation to solve water resource problems in future megacities. Paper accepted for presentation at the 13th Biennial Conference of the IASC from January 10th-14th, Hyderabad, India.
Göler von Ravensburg, B. (2010) Economic and other benefits of the entrepreneurs’ cooperative as a specific form of enterprise cluster; study for the International Labour Office, ILO, Geneva (270 pages); download:http://www.copac.coop/publications/2011-ilo-copac-entrepreneurs%20cooperative.pdf
2006-2010
2010
Bharamappanavara, Saikumar C.; Hanisch, M.; Shetty, N.K. (2010): Review Paper: Use of Micro-Credit for Poverty Alleviation and Rural Development – Bangladesh and International Experiences. Paper Presented at the National Seminar on “Microfinance and Livelihood Promotions in India” at Post Graduate Department of Management Studies & Research Center (PGDMSRC), Siddaganga Institute of Technology (SIT) Tumkur, India on 15th-16th December 2010.
Hanisch, M. (Hrsg.) (2010): Brennpunkt Agrarpreise – Ursachen, Trends und Risikomanagement für die Praxis. Berliner Beiträge zum Genossenschaftswesen Band 69. Institut für Genossenschaftswesen an der Humboldt-Universität und Europäischer Hochschulverlag. Berlin, Bremen.
Hanisch, M. (2010): Die Organisation von Kooperation – was die Genossenschaftswissenschaft von Elinor Ostrom lernen könnte. Zeitschrift für das gesamte Genossenschaftswesen 60(4), 251-263.
Hanisch, M. (2010): Kommunale Kooperation in Form von Multi-Stakeholder Genossenschaften: Das Beispiel Stadtmarketing. In: George, W.; Bonow, M. (Hrsg.) Regionales Zukunftsmanagement. Band 4: Kommunale Kooperation. Lengerich: Pabst Science Publishers.
Hanisch, M.; Kimmich, Ch.; Rommel, J.; Sagebiel, J. (2010): Coping with power scarcity in an emerging megacity: A consumers’ perspective from Hyderabad. International Journal of Global Energy Issues 33(3/4), 189-204.
Hanisch, M.; Opperskalski, S. (2010): Co-operatives and self-help organizations and their potential role for urban development: A factbook and analysis from Hyderabad. Sustainable Hyderabad Deliverable 16/2010.
Rommel, J.; Meyer-Ueding, J.; Hanisch, M.; Rommel, K. (2010): The Soft Path to Water and Sanitation Management in the Emerging Megacity: Survey Evidence from Hyderabad. Sustainable Hyderabad Deliverable 13/2010.
Rommel, K.; Hanisch, M.; Deb, K.; Sagebiel. J. (2010): Consumer Preferences for Improvements of Power Supply Quality: Results from a Choice Experiment in Hyderabad, India and Implications for Energy Policy. Paper presented at the European Conference of the IAEE, August 25-28, 2010 in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Rommel, K.; Sagebiel, J.; Hanisch, M.; Werthmann, Ch. (2010): Energy Consumption Patterns and Preferences of Private Households: Results from Two Surveys in Hyderabad. Sustainable Hyderabad Deliverable 8/2010.
2009
Hagedorn, K. (2009): Are Cooperatives Integrative Institutions? In: Rösner, H.J.; Schulz-Nieswandt, F. (eds.): Beiträge der genossenschaftlichen Selbsthilfe zur wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Entwicklung. Neue Kölner Genossenschaftswissenschaft, Bd. 5: 595-625.
Hanisch, M. (2009): Global cooperative linkages? The challenge to harmonize local with global economies. Paper presented at the United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Cooperatives, 28-30 April 2009, UN Headquarters, New York.
Hanisch, M. (2009): Constraints on Rural Governance in the European Union: A Role for Co-operative Associations?. In: Beckmann, V.; Padmanabhan, M. (Hrsg.): Institutions and Sustainability. Political Economy of Agriculture and the Environment – Essays in Honour of Konrad Hagedorn. Berlin: Springer.
Hanisch, M.; Meyer-Ueding, J.; Sagebiel, J. (2009): In search of low-emission pathways: Document and Stakeholder Analysis on Kirana Retailers and Energy Consumers and Background Study on Kirana Retailers. Megacity Research Report 6.
2008
Hanisch, M. (2008): Effizienzmessung und Ableitung von Entwicklungsstrategien für Warengenossenschaften: Zukünftige Strukturmodelle von Warengenossenschaften in Deutschland. In: Vorträge und Aufsätze des Forschungsvereins für Genossenschaftswesen Heft 31. FOG Wien.
Hanisch, M. (2008): Potentiale der Genossenschaft für Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Dresdner Geschichtsverein e.V. (Hrsg.): Im Selbsthilfeprinzip. Genossenschaftswesen in Dresden. Dresdner Hefte 25 (91). Dresden.
Helmerich, J.; Moid, M.; Hanisch, M.; Wulf, B. (2008): Achieving sustainable food security and poverty reduction through consumer cooperatives in Hyderabad. Megacity Research Report 5.
Hanisch, M.; Filler, G.; Odening, M. (2008): Zur Ableitung von Entwicklungsstrategien für Warengenossenschaften. In: Zeitschrift für das Gesamte Genossenschaftswesen (ZfgG), Erlangen-Nürnberg. Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht.
2007
Fink, S.; Hanisch, M.; Peemöller, V. H. (2007): Unternehmensbewertung zur Unterstützung von Entscheidungen bei der Verschmelzung von Genossenschaften. Berlin: Institut für Genossenschaftswesen an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Berliner Beiträge zum Genossenschaftswesen 66).
Hanisch, M.; Beckmann, V.; Boger, S.; Brem, M. (2007): In Search for the Market: Lessons from Analyzing Agricultural Transition in Central and Eastern Europe. In: Hagedorn, K.; Beckmann, V.: Understanding Agricultural Transition. Institutional Change and Economic Performance in a Comparative Perspective. Aachen: Shaker, Bd. 26, S. 25-44.
Hanisch, M. (2007): Property Reform – The Analysis of Agricultural Ownership Transformations in Post-Communist Bulgaria. In: Hagedorn, K.; Beckmann, V.: Understanding Agricultural Transition. Institutional Change and Economic Performance in a Comparative Perspective. Aachen: Shaker, Bd. 26, S. 225-263
2006
Blisse, H.; Hanisch, M. (2006): Elemente von Strategiekonzepten zur Zukunftssicherung der Genossenschaftlichen Kooperation. Zeitschrift für das Gesamte Genossenschaftswesen ZfgG. Band 56, Heft 1/2006. S. 75-79
Hanisch, M. (2006): Eine Theorie genossenschaftlichen Wandels. In: Münkner, H.-H.; Ringle, G. (Hrsg.): Zukunftsperspektiven für Genossenschaften. Bausteine für typengerechte Weiterentwicklung. Bern: Haupt
2001-2005
2005
Blisse, H.; Hanisch, M. (2005): Finanzierung und genossenschaftlicher Finanzverbund im Wandel. Berlin: Institut für Genossenschaftswesen an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Berliner Schriften zum Genossenschaftswesen 64).
Hanisch, M. (2005): Postsozialistische Landwirtschaft in Mittel- und Osteuropa. In: Beetz, S.; Brauer, K.; Neu, C. (Hrsg.): Handbuch zur ländlichen Gesellschaft in Deutschland. Wiesbaden: VS Sozialwissenschaftlicher Verlag, S. 193-201.
2004
Hagedorn, K. (2004): Property Rights Reform on Agricultural Land in Central and Eastern Europe. Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture, 43(4): 409-438.
Blisse, H.; Hanisch, M.; Hirschauer, N.; Kramer, Jost W.; Odening, M. (2004): Risikoorientierte Agrarkreditvergabe – Entwicklung und Konsequenzen. Berlin: Institut für Genossenschaftswesen an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Berliner Schriften zum Genossenschaftswesen 60).
Blisse, H.; Hanisch, M.; Hirschauer, N.; Kramer, Jost W.; Odening, M. (2004): Risikoorientierte Agrarkreditvergabe – Entwicklungen und Konsequenzen. In: Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank (Hrsg.): Herausforderungen für die Agrarfinanzierung im Strukturwandel – Ansätze für Landwirte, Banken, Berater und Politik. Rentenbank, Bd. 19, Frankfurt a.M., S. 203-247.
Hanisch, M. (2004): The Analysis of Contemporary Institutional Change: Making Theories Work. In: Dombrowsky, I.; Wittmer, H.; Rauschmeyer, F. (Hrsg.): Institutionen in Naturschutz und Ressourcenmanagement – Beiträge der Neuen Institutionenökonomik. UFZ Bericht 7/2004.
Steding, R.; Blisse, H.; Hanisch, M. (2004): Grundfragen der Theorie und Praxis der Genossenschaften. Berlin: Institut für Genossenschaftswesen an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Berliner Schriften zum Genossenschaftswesen 61).
2003
Hanisch, M. (2003): Property Reform and Social Conflict. A Multi-Level Analysis of the Change of Agricultural Property Rights in Post-Socialist Bulgaria. Aachen: 326 S.; Shaker.
2002
Hanisch, M. (Hrsg.) (2002): Genossenschaftsmodelle – zwischen Auftrag und Anpassung. Berlin: Institut für Genossenschaftswesen an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Berliner Beiträge zum Genossenschaftswesen 56).
Hagedorn, K. (Hrsg.) (2002): Environmental Cooperation and Institutional Change: Theories and Policies for European Agriculture. New Horizons in Environmental Economics. Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar.
Hagedorn, K.; Arzt, K.; Peters, U. (2002): Institutional Arrangements for Environmental Co-operatives: a Conceptual Framework. In: Hagedorn, K. (ed.): Environmental Cooperation and Institutional Change: Theories and Policies for European Agriculture. New Horizons in Environmental Economics. Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar: 3-25.
1995-2000
2000
Hanisch, M.; Schlüter, A. (2000): Institutional Analysis and Institutional Change – What to Learn from the Case of Bulgarian Land Reform? In: Tillack, P.; Schulze, E. (eds.): Land Ownership, Land Markets and their Influence on the Efficiency of Agricultural Production in Central and Eastern Europe. Kiel: Vauk, pp. 152-170.
Hagedorn, K.; Eisen, A. (Hrsg.) (2000): Lernstücke. Genossenschaften in Ostdeutschland. Berliner Schriften zur Kooperationsforschung 6. Berlin: Edition Sigma.
Hagedorn, K. (2000): Umweltgenossenschaften aus institutionenökonomischer Sicht. In: Kirk, M.; Kramer, J. W.; Steding, R. (Hrsg.): Genossenschaften und Kooperation in einer sich wandelnden Welt. Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von Prof. Dr. Hans-H. Münkner. Münster: LIT: 267 291.
1999
Hanisch, M. (1999): Analyzing Land Reform and Agricultural Privatization in Bulgaria. On Models, Methods and Empirical Work. Arbeitspapier für den dritten KATO-Workshop in Prag vom 19. bis 23. Februar 1999.
Hanisch, M.; Boevsky, I. (1999): Political, Institutional and Structural Developments Accompanying Land Reform and Privatization in Bulgarian Agriculture. In: Südosteuropa. Zeitschrift für Gegenwartsforschung. 48 (7-8). München.
1998
Hagedorn, K.; Eisen, A. (Hrsg.) (1998): Co-operatives in Central and Eastern Europe. Self-help in Structural Change. Berlin Co-operative Studies 4. Berlin: Edition Sigma.
1997
Eisen, A.; Hagedorn, K. (Hrsg.) (1997): Genossenschaften in Mittel- und Osteuropa. Selbsthilfe im Strukturwandel. Berliner Schriften zur Kooperationsforschung 1. Berlin: Edition Sigma.
1995
Hagedorn, K. (Hrsg.) (1995): Entwicklungschancen ländlicher Genossenschaften in den östlichen Bundesländern. Berliner Beiträge zum Genossenschaftswesen, Bd. 25. Berlin.