Incorporating Co-Operative Principles, Methods And Procedures Into The Structural Organisation Of Public Enterprises In Zimbabwe For State Subsidisation Of Soclalist Accumulation

Before independence, emphasis in the sphere of cooperative development was on input supply and marketing cooperatives and every attempt was made to discourage and proscribe any nascent collective cooperative largely on political and ideological grounds; i.e. it is the nature of property and relations of production within the enterprise rather than the technical production possibilities that distinguish this form of collective cooperatives from the input supply and marketing cooperatives.

A ZIDS Working Paper on co-operatives and state enterprises structural organization.