[ Les coopératives marocaines : Quels outils de gestion pour une meilleure performance ? ]
Volume 11, Issue 3, June 2015, Pages 615–622
Mustapha BENMAHANE1 and Dounia RABHI2
1 Professeur Habilité, Faculté Polydisciplinaire El Jadida, Université Chouaïb Doukkali, Maroc
2 Professeur Assistant, Faculté Polydisciplinaire El Jadida, Université Chouaïb Doukkali, Maroc
Original language: French
Copyright © 2015 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Cooperatives are one of the major components of the social economy of Morocco. They contribute to the socioeconomic development of the country as they participate in the creation of jobs, the fight against poverty and exclusion and improving living conditions in rural areas. However, these cooperatives must overcome several constraints in terms of internal management, competition, and the difficulties related to the availability of raw materials and access to markets. Referring to solid'exchange program of 2012, the year declared by the United Nations as international year of cooperatives, the aim of this paper is to analyze the situation of cooperatives in Morocco by raising some constraints on their development on the one hand; and focus on the results of our diagnostic in terms of management, quality and finance of the twenty four cooperatives that were selected under this program. Our results showed that these cooperatives have several constraints: finance, technological backwardness, lack of sophisticated equipment, lack of equipment and local, poor knowledge of cooperative principles, poor accounting and financial management, communication and marketing problems of their products, etc.
Author Keywords: social economy, cooperatives, cooperative entrepreneurship, diagnostic.
Volume 11, Issue 3, June 2015, Pages 615–622
Mustapha BENMAHANE1 and Dounia RABHI2
1 Professeur Habilité, Faculté Polydisciplinaire El Jadida, Université Chouaïb Doukkali, Maroc
2 Professeur Assistant, Faculté Polydisciplinaire El Jadida, Université Chouaïb Doukkali, Maroc
Original language: French
Copyright © 2015 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Cooperatives are one of the major components of the social economy of Morocco. They contribute to the socioeconomic development of the country as they participate in the creation of jobs, the fight against poverty and exclusion and improving living conditions in rural areas. However, these cooperatives must overcome several constraints in terms of internal management, competition, and the difficulties related to the availability of raw materials and access to markets. Referring to solid'exchange program of 2012, the year declared by the United Nations as international year of cooperatives, the aim of this paper is to analyze the situation of cooperatives in Morocco by raising some constraints on their development on the one hand; and focus on the results of our diagnostic in terms of management, quality and finance of the twenty four cooperatives that were selected under this program. Our results showed that these cooperatives have several constraints: finance, technological backwardness, lack of sophisticated equipment, lack of equipment and local, poor knowledge of cooperative principles, poor accounting and financial management, communication and marketing problems of their products, etc.
Author Keywords: social economy, cooperatives, cooperative entrepreneurship, diagnostic.
Abstract: (french)
Les coopératives représentent l'une des composantes majeures de l'économie sociale et solidaire du Maroc. elles contribuent au développement socio-économique du pays du fait qu'elles participent à la création d'emplois, la lutte contre la pauvreté et l'exclusion et l'amélioration des conditions de vie dans le milieu rural. Cependant, ces coopératives doivent faire face à des contraintes tant en matière de gestion interne, qu'en matière de concurrence. En plus des difficultés ayant trait à la disponibilité des matières premières et à l'accès aux marchés. En se référant au programme solid'exchange mis sur table en 2012, l'année décrétée par les Nations Unies comme une année internationale des coopératives, ce papier a pour objectif d'analyser la situation des coopératives au Maroc en soulevant quelques contraintes à leurs développement d'une part ; et de se focaliser sur les résultats de notre diagnostic en termes de gestion, qualité et finance de quatre coopératives sur les vingt qui ont été sélectionnées dans le cadre ce programme. Nos résultats ont montré que ces coopératives doivent faire face à plusieurs contraintes : financement, retard technologique, absence d'équipements sophistiqués, manque de machines et de locaux, faible niveau de maîtrise des principes coopératifs, mauvaise gestion comptable et financière, problèmes de communication et de commercialisation de leurs produits, etc.
Author Keywords: économie sociale et solidaire, coopératives, entrepreneuriat coopératif, diagnostic.
How to Cite this Article
Mustapha BENMAHANE and Dounia RABHI, “Moroccan cooperatives: What are the management tools for better performance?,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 615–622, June 2015.
