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Innovative behaviour in Indian cooperatives : New product development in traditional sectors

Innovations are not the prerogative of large firms or of individual entrepreneurs in SMEs. Innovations are multi-staged processes in which persons with different disciplinary backgrounds both from inside and outside a firm can participate. Cooperatives pursue multiple, i.e. economic and social, goals and their members participate in decision-making. This paper shows the innovativeness of cooperatives in India and to what extent the democratic organs participate in the various stages of the process. In innovative cooperatives the democratic organs participate, different organs in different stages, but in non-innovative ones they don’t.