@article{King:313027,
      recid = {313027},
      author = {King, Robert P. and Shuker, Iain G.},
      title = {Information System Adoption and Use in Local Cooperatives},
      address = {1991-07},
      number = {1502-2021-2265},
      series = {ACS Research Report No. 98},
      pages = {18},
      year = {1991},
      abstract = {Advances in information technology can help local  cooperatives remain competitive in a changing agricultural  sector.  This study examines the adoption and use of  information systems by local farm supply and grain  cooperatives and the relationships between information  system characteristics and cooperative performance.   Cooperative characteristics were found to have a  significant effect on information selection, overall cost  structure, and the allocation of information system  expenses.  Information system selection was also related to  operating performance.  In all size categories, farm supply  cooperatives that owned computers had better operating  performance than those that did not.  In contrast,  operating performance was not related to computer ownership  in grain cooperatives.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/313027},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.313027},
}