Abstract
The core of comprehensive evaluation of Co-op-Kobe is to evaluate the businesses and activities of consumer co-operatives by evaluation indexes prepared from statistical data. There are six indexes in total and these belong either to "Basic Values" or "Management Foundations." Indexes belonging to "Basic Values" are indexing of values of co-operatives, emphasized by ICA. Other "Management Foundations" means foundations for realizing basic values. In order to increase the credibility of the comprehensive evaluation, a survey is conducted every year. The statistical method used is the "Standardized Index" to compile data of a different nature in computation of the indexes derived from the data. In the section 3, we take up the characteristic portion of 30 evaluation items, 6 evaluation indexes and 2 evaluation axes for a period between the base year of 1996 and 2001 to see how the indexes have changed. In the section 4, the relationship between basic values and management foundations is considered. In the section 5, the system of participation in the comprehensive evaluation by the co-operative stakeholders is shown. In the last section, the process of improvement of the method with an impact toward other co-operative is explained.
