Cooperative Business Movement, 1950 to the Present (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Battilani, Patrizia

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Produktbeschreibung

The United Nations declared 2012 the year of cooperatives, emphasizing that there is an alternative to privately owned firms. While 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 over the last fifty years. The global study addresses the major challenges cooperatives face, such as the organizational innovations introduced to acquire necessary risk-capital and implement growth-related strategies, the wave of demutualization in developed nations and their ability to construct an original consumer politics. The contributors to this volume discuss the successes and failures of the cooperatives and ask whether they are an outdated model of enterprise.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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139558839
• Artikelnr.: 38276995

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: principal problems and general development of cooperative
enterprise Patrizia Battilani and Harm Schröter; Part I. Cooperative Issues
in a Global Overview: 1. The geographical dimension of the cooperative
movement Ann Hoyt and Tito Menzani; 2. A world of variations: sectors and
forms Vera Zamagni; 3. Cooperative movements in the Republic of Korea
Hongjoo Jung and Hans Jürgen Rösner; 4. '... What is the end purpose of it
all?': the centrality of values for cooperative success in the market place
Ian MacPherson; 5. Why cooperatives fail: case studies from Western Europe,
Japan, and North America, 1950-2010 Peter Kramper; 6. Co-ops' new
challenge: demutualization and its problems Patrizia Battilani and Harm
Schröter; Part II. Selected Core Issues of Cooperative Enterprise in a
Historical Perspective: 7. Legal frameworks and property rights in
US-agricultural co-ops: the hybridization of cooperative structures Fabio
Chaddad and Michael Cook; 8. The performance of workers' cooperatives
Verginie Pérotin; 9. Organization: top down or bottom up? The
organizational development of consumer cooperatives, 1950-2000 Espen
Ekberg; 10. The politics of commercial dynamics: consumer cooperative
adaptations to post war consumerism in the UK and Sweden, 1950-2010
Katarina Friberg, Rachael Vorberg-Rugh, Anthony Webster and John Wilson;
Conclusion: 11. The decisive factors of cooperatives' future: their nature,
longevity, role, and environment Patrizia Battilani and Harm Schröter.