Retail food cooperatives: testing the "small is beautiful" hypothesis: comment

Extract: Cotterill's note concerning the small is beautiful hypothesis for retail food cooperatives constitutes a helpful analysis of the importance of volunteer labor to these organizations. Although a more useful organizational delineation of features distinguishing the surveyed firms and a more accurate accounting of member involvement in the decentralization index could strengthen the performance analysis, these shortcomings do not extirpate the insightful conclusions