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Author : Johnston Birchall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Cooperation
ISBN : MINN:31951D02584225K
Author : Willy Tadjudje,Ifigeneia Douvitsa
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789811919916
This book contributes to the development of literature on cooperative law while paying tribute to Hagen Henrÿ’s significant impact on this field at a global scale. Hagen Henrÿ is one of the most influential scholars in the field of cooperative law. His primary contribution has been in the area of public international cooperative law. His other areas of scientific interest include development law and comparative law. This honorary volume is focused on two main axes -- the essence of cooperatives as well as their activities and their governance. The contributions throw light on how these two axes are addressed by cooperative legislation across countries, regions and continents. In the varied perspectives that the contributions put together, both a theoretical and practical approach, the authors address central, current and crucial issues for the development of cooperative law. The book is a great resource for researcher scholars, as well as policy makers and industry players interested in the topic.
Author : Chris Rowley,Jonathan Michie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317534136
The 25 years leading up to the international financial crisis have been depicted as ‘capitalism unleashed’, containing deregulation, privatisation, demutualisation and financialisation. Yet remarkably, given this economic and political context, co-operatives and mutuals appear to have been gaining ground in many countries, albeit modestly, even before the international financial crisis and the resulting global recession, from which the global economy is still only slowly recovering. The 2007-2008 international financial crisis called into question how appropriate the shareholder-owned model is, certainly if it is allowed to dominate the financial services sector. However the International Co-operative Alliance is determined to make the mutual and co-operative sector of the economy a dynamic, sustainable and increasingly important sector of the global economy. This book looks at the contribution of co-operative, mutual and employee-owned firms to the Asia Pacific economy - both currently and prospectively – and the challenges the standard ‘Western’ model faces regarding employment and output. It also looks at the role of Governments, the nature of co-operatives in China and the role of the state, and the future prospects for cross-border growth of co-operative and mutual business within Asia Pacific, and more widely. This book was originally published as a Special Issue of Asia Pacific Business Review.
Author : Tapas R. Dash
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781498555234
Cooperatives in the Global Economy presents a unique collection of research-based chapters contributed by leading social and economic thinkers that provide critical insights into how the cooperative business model meets the challenges of the complex global problems in today’s competitive economy. Apart from theoretical arguments in favor of the value-based cooperative business model, this book presents the performance indicators of various forms of cooperatives, their potentialities, and challenges they face across borders. The contributors reexamine how cooperatives empower the marginalized population of the world by bringing them into the mainstream of socio-economic activities through creating employment opportunities, working towards alleviation of poverty, ensuring for more equitable distribution of scarce resources, and providing the basis for a sustainable economy and its meaningful growth. Today, in the global competitive economy, the challenges for cooperatives are enormous due to their particular value commitments, forms of incorporation, and organizational structures. In spite of the presence of several challenges, cooperatives promote economic growth and social justice. In this context, this book also presents the critical roles of cooperatives in balancing economic, social, and environmental concerns to build a better, equitable, and sustainable world.
Author : George Cheney,Matt Noyes,Emi Do,Marcelo Vieta,Joseba Azkarraga,Charlie Michel
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781838678258
Cooperatives at Work presents a range of success stories in employee ownership and worker cooperative enterprise, showcasing how such firms can embody important and highly contested ideals of democracy, equity, and social transformation.
Author : Raquel Ajates Gonzalez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-13
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781351216289
Farmers' cooperatives are very prevalent in the European Union, where they account for approximately half of agricultural trade and thus are key to articulating rural realities and in shaping the sustainability credentials of European food and farming. This book analyses to what extent farmers' cooperatives are working to benefit their members, are showing concern for their communities and are promoting cooperative economies. It offers a multilevel set of theoretical, disciplinary, methodological, empirical and social perspectives, using the UK and Spain as contrasting examples, and analyses whether agricultural cooperatives contribute to achieving sustainable food systems. The book presents empirical data from diverse and rich case studies, from large, international cooperatives, to small, multi-stakeholder initiatives. This provides an alternative viewpoint to that of economics, which tends to dominate the study of agricultural cooperatives. The author presents a new theoretical framework that provides a novel lens to study farmers’ cooperatives as organisations deeply embedded in power dynamics of the food system and agricultural policy that shape and constraint their potential to adopt cooperative and sustainable practices. The book is a major addition to the study of agricultural cooperatives and their impact in the development of fairer and more sustainable food systems and it is one of the first detailed accounts of multi-stakeholder food and farming cooperatives in Europe. It is a valuable resource for all scholars working on cooperatives, as well as for students studying agricultural and food policy, environmental justice and rural sociology.
Author : Andrew Emmanuel Okem
Publisher : Springer
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319342160
The book outlines how cooperatives can be used as a tool for development and reconciliation in post-conflict contexts. This book also examines the successes and challenges for emerging and existing cooperatives in Africa, while delivering both practical lessons and insights into the theory. It presents completely new materials on the cooperative movement, against a backdrop of increasing global recognition of the roles of cooperatives and collective action in socio-economic development. Readers are invited to consider how, as an economic model that seeks to advance member collective interests, cooperatives are invaluable tools for human, economic and social development. Social and human geographers find this a remarkably impactful contribution to the literature surrounding cooperatives in Africa and cooperative theory in general. Policy experts and students also find the research informative and insightful.
Author : Vanna Gonzales,Rhonda G. Phillips
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317850571
In celebration of cooperatives’ contributions to community development processes and outcomes worldwide, the United Nations designated 2012 as the Year of the Cooperative. Today, as in the past, cooperatives have proved effective in bringing people and organizations together to accomplish a broad array of goals related to fostering social and economic innovation, protecting communities against poor living and working conditions, and promoting a better quality of life. Analytically, as both a movement and as a business model, cooperatives hold much potential for generating the types of synergies, collaboration, and productive and social processes that enable community development to thrive in a variety of local, regional and global contexts. This collection of articles chronicles new developments in the ways in which cooperatives are used in a diverse array of community contexts. They offer insight as to what these changes mean, both empirically and theoretically, for community development in the decades to come. This book is a compilation of articles published in the journal Community Development.
Author : C. Gijselinckx,L. Zhao,S. Novkovic
Publisher : Springer
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137277282
This book aims to contribute to our understanding of recent changes in Chinese and Western cooperatives. It will provide a variety of audiences with relevant and useful information for further co-operative development, mutual understanding and cooperation.
Author : Hans-H. Münkner
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783643904508
This up-dated new edition of a textbook on co-operative law shows how political change and several new trends like economisation and approximation of co-operative law to company law, development of uniform legal designs for special matters like bookkeeping, audit and merger across legal patterns and national boundaries, the revised co-operative principles of the International Co-operative Alliance, a growing difference between small and large co-operatives, heterogeneous membership and extended solidarity, have affected co-operative legislation. Hans-H. Muenkner is Professor emeritus of law and theory of co-operation and was Managing Director of the Institute for Co-operation in Developing Countries of the University of Marburg, Germany from 1992 to 2000.
Author : Christian Tietje,Alan Brouder
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1105 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789004181564
This Handbook builds on recent attempts to understand new and evolving patterns of global governance by identifying, describing, and analysing more than 80 of the most significant actors in the regulation and administration of contemporary transnational economic affairs.
Author : David Horton Smith,Robert A. Stebbins,Jurgen Grotz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1414 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137263179
Written by over 200 leading experts from over seventy countries, this handbook provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of the latest theory and research on volunteering, civic participation and nonprofit membership associations. The first handbook on the subject to be truly multinational and interdisciplinary in its authorship, it represents a major milestone for the discipline. Each chapter follows a rigorous theoretical structure examining definitions, historical background, key analytical issues, usable knowledge, and future trends and required research. The nine parts of the handbook cover the historical and conceptual background of the discipline; special types of volunteering; the major activity areas of volunteering and associations; influences on volunteering and association participation; the internal structures of associations; the internal processes of associations; the external environments of associations; the scope and impacts of volunteering and associations; and conclusions and future prospects. This handbook provides an essential reference work for third-sector research and practice, including a valuable glossary of terms defining over eighty key concepts. Sponsored by the International Council of Voluntarism, Civil Society, and Social Economy Researcher Associations (ICSERA; www.icsera.org), it will appeal to scholars, policymakers and practitioners, and helps to define the emergent academic discipline of voluntaristics.
Author : Andrea Bernardi,Salvatore Monni
Publisher : Roma TrE-Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9788897524670
Questo libro è strutturato come un dizionario e come tale presenta 23 brevi contributi, ciascuno con un diverso argomento, scritto da autori con un background differente e una diversa prospettiva disciplinare. Tutti i capitoli ambiscono a descrivere quanto sia antico, ricco e diverso il settore cooperativo a livello mondiale. Tutti i capitoli descrivono esplicitamente o meno il peso del settore cooperativo sulla crescita e lo sviluppo. Presi insieme, i capitoli offrono una spiegazione multidisciplinare del contributo offerto alle nostre vite dal settore cooperativo, illustrano come così è stato da molto tempo e come potrebbe essere ancora a lungo attraverso il reinventarsi del ruolo delle cooperative nella nostra società. Tutti i capitoli descrivono le cooperative con riferimento alle imprese tradizionali ma fanno ciò in maniera critica, piuttosto che retorica o polemica.
Author : Alan Southern
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136731501
There is little doubt that in recent years, enterprise has been considered an essential approach in the alleviation of deprivation existing in the developed world. The assumption is that area-based initiatives provide a means by which enterprise can include all members of society in mainstream social and economic activities. The rationale behind Enterprise, Deprivation and Social Exclusion is to critically challenge the notion that enterprise can address the complexity behind deprivation and social exclusion by demonstrating UK and North American examples. We see how enterprise has come to be regarded as a means by which poverty can be reduced and new opportunities can be opened up to support individuals. However, the authors here seek to give a greater appreciation to the structural roots of deprivation and pose questions about whether or not enterprise might actually exacerbate structures of social and economic exclusion. What if enterprise actually maintains differences between types of community and keeps individuals entrenched in certain ways of thinking? The contributions in this edited collection will offer a distinct opportunity in respect of both theoretical and empirical advancement. The authors hale from both sides of the Atlantic and form an inter-disciplinary group to provide complementary perspectives in this field.
Author : Bruno Dallago,Chiara Guglielmetti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136190513
The book explores how, to what extent and with what consequences the international crisis of 2007-2008 and the recession which followed have affected European SMEs (small and medium enterprises) in both the well established market economies of the old member countries and in the post-transformation new member countries, and what can be done at the institutional and political level to uphold them.