Investigating the Factors Affecting the Profit Efficiency of Rural Cooperatives (Case study of Guilan province)

Considering the important role of rural cooperatives in sustainable rural development, Evaluating the efficiency and performance of these organizations plays an important role in the decision making of planners and managers.The main purpose of this study is to investigating the profit efficiency of rural cooperative and its Effective Factors in Guilan Province using stochastic frontier function production method and the behavioral profit model. The statistical population of the present study was 110 active rural cooperatives in Guilan province in 2017 and the sampling method was census. The results showed the average of profit efficiency of rural cooperatives in Guilan province is 63%. Also, the results of estimating the profit function showed the current capital and costs related to the activities of these cooperatives have a direct and significant relationship with frontier profit. In addition, investigating the effective factors on profit inefficiency of rural cooperatives showed the duration of activity of these cooperatives, second job, manager's wage and management Experience have a positive and significant effect on profit inefficiency. On the other hand, the number of shareholders, number of villages, cooperative distance to city, establishment of cooperative in the center of province, education of manager and the number of training courses for cooperative managers have a negative and significant effect on profit inefficiency of rural cooperatives in Guilan province