TENDENCIES AND FACTS IN THE PROCESS OF MAINTAINING CAPITAL OF ROMANIAN CONSUMERS’ COOPERATIVES

Whereas prior to 1990 the co-operative movement held an important position in the national economy, later on, going from centralized economy to market economy, this sector saw a continuous decline, and consumers' co-operatives – the subject matter of our study – were forced, in line with their resources, to adapt to new tendencies as they emerged. And, since development of a large co-operative movement requires a support system capable to transfer knowledge of a great number of people, in addition to capital resources to favour cooperation, the undertaking of our paper aims at the very methods to maintain Romanian co-operative societies, process which has been ignored over the past two decades both by the lawmakers and entities directly concerned.