Sokolova A. National cooperative movement in economy of the market type: state and perspectives of development

Object: processes and functioning of the national revival of the cooperative movement as a socially-oriented system. Purpose: To study theoretical and methodological provisions and development of scientific and practical recommendations for improving the performance and prospects of the national cooperative movement and its main components: consumer, credit and agricultural cooperatives in a market economy based on the integration and interaction. Methods: The dialectical method of knowledge, a systematic, comprehensive and structural-functional approach, abstract and logical method of induction and deduction, the method of correlation-regression analysis, historic, sociometric, economic and mathematical and statistical methods to theoretical and empirical analysis, modeling techniques, expert assessments, analysis and synthesis. It is offered: it is improved: methodical approach to evaluating the competitiveness of cooperative organizations; methodical approach to the creation of cluster structures based on the cooperative sector of the economy of Ukraine; theoretical and methodological approach to the strategy of the national cooperative sector; gathered subsequent development: concepts and terminology that characterizes the national cooperative movement, in particular clarifies the concept of "cooperative", "cooperation", "cooperative movement", "organizational and economic mehanism"; systematization of macro factors that affect the development of the national cooperative sector; justification of the main strategic directions of development of various types of cooperation of Ukraine. Sphere of the use: consumer organizations, and agricultural credit (servicing, industrial) cooperation.