Cooperatives have spread across virtually all continents. Today, the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) recognises over 3 million cooperatives with 1 billion cooperative members or about 12% of the human population and serving many more members of the public, collectively owning trillions...

The protection scheme of the cooperative financial network goes back to the guarantee funds of the German ‹Volksbanken›, the world's oldest privately-financed protection system for banks. The core task of institutional protection is to protect the cooperative banks and hence the protection...

Contents: Preface Introduction: The cooperative firm as an alternative to the capital-owned business enterprise -- 1. Democratic firms and socialism -- 2. An up-to-date model of marxism: A socialist system without any communist colouring -- 3. The revolutionary impetus of marxism versus...

Most terrestrial biological invasions occur in landscapes comprising numerous, independently managed properties. Thus, control of invasion spread generally depends on the choices of many managers, each deciding the extent to control invasions on their property. Here we develop a...

Management of farmer-owned cooperatives cannot be successful without the participation of the members. If the managers of a cooperative are ignorant of the members’ opinion, the whole organization could collapse. This study takes a people-centered perspective and, instead of focusing on...

Most terrestrial biological invasions occur in landscapes comprising numerous, independently managed properties. Thus, control of invasion spread generally depends on the choices of many managers, each deciding the extent to control invasions on their property. Here we develop a...

We examine trade and strategic interaction between countries that enforce technical measures for resource management which restricts capacity of exploitation to protect an internationally shared renewable resource. The technical measures are common management tools in fisheries (e.g.,...

Dieses IfG-Arbeitspapier von Jörg-Matthias Böttiger stellt einige Ergebnisse seiner Dissertation vor. Er hat es sich zur Aufgabe gemacht, den MemberValue zu operationalisieren und zwar für Wohnungsgenossenschaften. Allerdings kann sein Konzept - entsprechend angepasst - auch von...

Until the 2000s, water resources in Tunisia were managed solely by government bodies without any consultation with water users. At the local level, Commissariats Règionaux de Dèveloppement Agricole [Regional Agricultural Development Committees (CRDAs)], which represented the government bodies,...

In den Beiträgen stehen die wirtschaftlichen Elemente der genossenschaftlichen Kooperation im Vordergrund, ergänzt durch soziale, kulturelle und ethische Aspekte – eine Komplettierung des Wirtschaftlichen, wie sie seit eh und je zum Wesen von Genossenschaften gehört. Im Ergebnis zeigt sich...

1. Introduction -- 2. The birth of cooperative enterprise : where, when, how -- 3. What is a cooperative? -- 4. The development of cooperation in the world -- 5. The cooperative movement in Italy -- 6. The economic performance of cooperative enterprises -- 7. Cooperative governance -- 8. Conclusion