Yurmanova H. Reforming of the consumers' cooperatives' property in the transforming economy of Ukraine

Object of research: economical system of con-sumers' cooperation under conditions of national economy in transition. Purpose of research: analy-sis of ownership relations of consumers' cooperation from the point of view of its genesis, economic con-tent and ways of reforming in economic system in transition and in context of international cooperative experience and develop mechanisms of consumers' cooperation ownership transformation as well. Methods of research: structural and functional, dia-lectic, deductive, inductive, analogies method, statis-tical analysis; Results: economic content of consum-ers' cooperative ownership from the accumulation theory point of view is analyzed, relatively accumu-lation is interpreted as dynamical factor of forming and evolution of ownership forms; genesis of con-sumers' cooperative ownership is considered from the point of view of foreign experience of consum-ers' cooperation functioning and ownership relations in consumers' cooperatives evolution; features of economic realization of consumers' cooperation ownership in market economy and economy in tran-sition are examined; stepwise character of ownership relations transformation process in consumers' coop-eration system of Ukraine was grounded; specific actions related to reform of consumers' cooperative ownership were proposed; on the basis of analysis of interactions between ownership and forms of man-agement organization recommendations to use entre-preneurial legal-organizational forms in consumers' cooperation system were developed. Novelty: grounds of consumers' cooperation ownership repre-sentation as a kind of ownership in common; intro-duction property rights theory concepts to analysis of social and economic relations in consumers' coop-eration system; distinguishing two stages in owner-ship relation transformation process in consumers' cooperation system of Ukraine; putting into scientific circulation the term of "cooperative entrepreneur-ship", disclosing its social and economic content, grounding relations between effectiveness of owner-ship relations reform in consumers' cooperation sys-tem and legal recognition of consumers societies as cooperative entrepreneurship organisations; ground-ing the investment significance of such forms of re-alisation consumers' cooperation ownership as inter-est rates on shares and dividends on stocks; proposi-tion of transformation mechanism of social and eco-nomic consumers' cooperative ownership relations in economy in transition based on aggregated experi-ence of use new organisational and legal and organ-isational and economy forms of activity at consum-ers' societies of Donetsk region. Field of use: inter-industry.