At a time when greed and mismanagement have caused world financial and economic crises, co-ops offer another type of business for economic activities that is less exposed to aggressive capitalism. This book provides a problem-oriented overview of the development of cooperatives during the last fifty years. This worldwide study addresses the major challenges cooperatives face, such as introducing organizational innovations to acquire necessary risk capital and implementing growthrelated strategies, the wave of demutualization in developed nations, and the ability of cooperative enterprise to construct an original consumer politics. The contributors to this volume discuss the successes and failures of cooperatives and ask whether the co-op is an outdated model of enterprise. They document a wave of foundations of new co-ops, new forms of collaboration between them, and a growing trend toward globalization. Generally speaking, these authors show that this special kind of business will doubtless continue to thrive and to maintain an important position in a rapidly changing world economy.
P. Battilani, H. Schroeter (2012). The Cooperative Business Movement, 1950 to the Present. NEW YORK : Cambridge University Press.
The Cooperative Business Movement, 1950 to the Present
BATTILANI, PATRIZIA;
2012
Abstract
At a time when greed and mismanagement have caused world financial and economic crises, co-ops offer another type of business for economic activities that is less exposed to aggressive capitalism. This book provides a problem-oriented overview of the development of cooperatives during the last fifty years. This worldwide study addresses the major challenges cooperatives face, such as introducing organizational innovations to acquire necessary risk capital and implementing growthrelated strategies, the wave of demutualization in developed nations, and the ability of cooperative enterprise to construct an original consumer politics. The contributors to this volume discuss the successes and failures of cooperatives and ask whether the co-op is an outdated model of enterprise. They document a wave of foundations of new co-ops, new forms of collaboration between them, and a growing trend toward globalization. Generally speaking, these authors show that this special kind of business will doubtless continue to thrive and to maintain an important position in a rapidly changing world economy.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
