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
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
Forschungsinstitut für Genossenschaftswesen an der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Chairman: Prof. Matthias Wrede
Forschungsstelle für Genossenschaftswesen an der Universität Hohenheim
Executive Director: Prof. Sebastian Hess
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).