Three types of members are included in the AGI statute.
Proper Members are German, Austrian, and Swiss university research institutions focused on researching and teaching collaboration and co-operation studies.
Associate members are persons who are involved with researching and teaching collaboration and co-operation studies.
Corresponding members are persons or institutions who or which support collaboration and co-operation studies.
Full members of the AGI (currently)
Division Resource Economics and Director of the Berlin Institute for Co-operative Studies at Humboldt University of Berlin
Executive Director: Prof. Markus Hanisch
VerbandsmanagementInstitut (VMI) at the University of Fribourg/Switzerland
Directors: Prof. Markus Gmür and Dr. Philipp Erpf
Institut für ländliches Genossenschaftswesen an der Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen
Executive Director: Prof. Rainer Kühl
Arbeitsstelle für Genossenschaftsgeschichte am Historischen Seminar der Universität Hamburg
Director: Prof. Franklin Kopitzsch
International Institute of Alpine Cooperative Research
Managing Director: Prof. Mag. Arnulf Perkounigg
Interdisziplinäre Wissenschaftliche Einrichtung für Genossenschafts- und Kooperationsforschung an der Universität Halle – IWE GK
Executive Director: Prof. Winfried Kluth
Department for Co-operative Studies at the University of Cologne
Executive Director: Prof. Frank Schulz-Nieswandt
Institute for Cooperative Research at the Philipps-University Marburg
Executive Director: Prof. Sascha H. Mölls
Institut für Genossenschaftswesen der Westfälischen Wilhelms Universität Münster
Executive Director: Prof. Theresia Theurl
Forschungsinstitut für Genossenschaftswesen an der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Chairman: Prof. Matthias Wrede
Forschungsstelle für Genossenschaftswesen an der Universität Hohenheim
Executive Director: Prof. Sebastian Hess
Forschungsinstitut für Kooperationen und Genossenschaften der Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
Institute Director: Prof. Dietmar Rößl
Institut für Betriebswirtschaftslehre der Universität Wien, Fachbereich Genossenschaftswesen
Executive Director: Prof. Michaela Schaffhauser-Linzatti
Associate members (active in research)
We would especially like to name Prof. Juhani Laurinkari (Kuopio, Finnland), as well as several emeriti such as Prof. Eberhard Dülfer (†), Prof. Werner Wilhelm Engelhardt (†), Prof. Friedrich Fürstenberg, Prof. Claus Peter Mossler, Prof. Hans-H. Münkner, and Prof. Jürgen Zerche (†).
Associate membership by renowned researchers from international co-operative studies: Dr. Franci Avsec (Ljubiljana, Slovenia), Prof. G. van Dijk (Breukelen, Netherlands), Prof. Yehuda Don (Bar-Ilan, Israel), Prof. Jerzy Kleer (Warsaw, Poland), Prof. Jerker Nilsson (Uppsala, Sweden), Prof. Hiroshi Yokogawa (Fukuoka, Japan).