An investigation into effective content factors in development of cooperatives across south Khorasan province

With regard to significance of cooperative sector in economy of country, the present research has examined effective content factors in development of cooperatives across south Khorasan province. The statistical population consists of managers and members of cooperative firms across south Khorasan province at three distributive, producing and service sectors that the sample group (384) was selected using stratified sampling via Cochran's formula. The researcher-made questionnaire has been used as the data collection instrument which the content validity was used to determine validity of questionnaire, thus the questionnaire was given to the experts to determine the validity and the necessary modifications were made. Cronbach's alpha was used to determine reliability of questionnaire which was obtained equal to 0.86, indicating general reliability of questionnaire. At the next stage, information was analyzed via statistical methods at two descriptive and inferential sections via software SPSS. Findings of research indicate that the highest mean of ranks for the content factors in prevention from development of cooperatives across South Khorasan Province include high rate of bank loans for formation of cooperatives, cooperatives' lack of liquidity, lack of government support from cooperatives, lack of exemptions and tax insurance breaks of cooperatives, parallelism and lack of cohesion in cooperatives. (C) 2015 IASE Publisher. All rights reserved.