Aleksei I. Mayorov

The article studies the current state and key problems of development of procure-ment activities in the consumer cooperation system of the Yaroslavl region. The analysis revealed the concentration of the regional cooperation system on the retail trade sector and a relatively low level of development of systemically important for regional markets areas – agricultural cooperation, cooperation in the sphere of public services. The formed set of problems should be considered as a combination of national and regional problems. The priority directions of development of the consumer cooperation syste...

In the present article, we propose an approach to identifying the barriers that hinder the development of purchasing activities of cooperatives in the Chelyabinsk region and the functioning of consumer cooperative enterprises. The analysis allowed us to attribute to such barriers of internal nature for the cooperative sector: systematically low profitability of cooperatives' activity in the sphere of trade, low attractiveness of cooperatives for the economically active population as a sphere of competence application (as a consequence, reduction in the number of shareholders), compression of t...