| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 283 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Comparative perspectives in business history |
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Comparative perspectives in business history.
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| Contents |
Principal problems and general development of cooperative enterprise / Patrizia Battilani and Harm Schröter --The International Cooperative movement : a quiet giant / Ann Hoyt and Tito Menzani -- A world of variations : sectors and forms / Vera Zamagni -- Cooperative movements in the Republic of Korea / Hongjoo Jung and Hans Jürgen Rösner -- ' ... What is the end purpose of it all?' : The centrality of values for cooperative success in the marketplace / Ian MacPherson -- Why cooperatives fail : case studies from Western Europe, Japan, and the United States, 1950-2010 / Peter Kramper -- Demutualization and its problems / Patrizia Battilani and Harm Schröter -- Legal frameworks and property rights in U.S. agricultural co-operatives : the hybridization of cooperative structures / Fabio Chaddad and Michael Cook -- The performance of workers' cooperatives / Verginie Pérotin -- Organization : top down or bottom up? The organizational development of consumer cooperatives, 1950-2000 / Espen Ekberg -- The politics of commercial dynamics : cooperative adaptations to postwar consumerism in the United Kingdom and Sweden, 1950-2010 / Katarina Friberg, Rachael Vorberg-Rugh, Anthony Webster and John Wilson -- The decisive factors of cooperatives' future : their nature, longevity, role, and environment / Patrizia Battilani and Harm Schröter |
| Summary |
"The Cooperative Business Movement, 1950 to the Present 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 worldwide study addresses the major challenges cooperatives face, such as the organizational innovations introduced in order 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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Cooperative societies -- History
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Cooperative societies -- Case studies
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic History.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General.
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Cooperative societies
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Battilani, Patrizia.
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Schröter, Harm G., 1948-
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| ISBN |
9781139550116 |
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113955011X |
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9781139555074 |
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1139555073 |
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