Experiment participants in a social dilemma game choose cooperation over defection, even though neither is more beneficial. High levels of cooperation cannot be explained by favorable labels for actions, collusion, k-level reasoning, quantal response behavior, or misplaced optimism about others'...

This is the Final Report of the Evaluation of the European Union (EU) Cooperation with Palestine. It was commissioned by the European Commission's Directorate-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations (DG NEAR). The evaluation has both a retrospective and a prospective dimension. It...

Trotz milliardenschwerer Investitionen bleibt die deutsche Schieneninfrastruktur ein Engpass für die Verkehrswende. Die staatliche DB InfraGO AG weist gravierende Governance-Schwächen auf: Einbindung in den DB Konzern, geringe Nutzerorientierung in Bezug auf private Anbieter und...

Codes of governance have mushroomed in contexts operating under a single, dominant institutional logic, such as publicly listed corporations. These codes act as institutional prescriptions that help spread best practices throughout industries. More recently, in some countries, specific codes...

Food waste is a critical global issue with significant environmental, economic, and social implications. In Indonesia, one of the world's largest food-wasting countries, urban centers such as Bandung City face growing challenges in managing household food waste. The limited capacity of municipal...

This paper analyzes the possibility of creating worker cooperatives in which members are paid not through wages but through dividends calculated on the organization's residual income, as stipulated by the economic theory of the labor-managed firm. It is shown how dividends paid to members can be...

Social cooperatives, which are an important pillar of the solidarity economy, have become increasingly popular and common in Hungary over the past 10 years, especially in disadvantaged settlements, where the administrative burden of public employment is outsourced to social cooperatives....

This study presents a process narrative of how cooperatives emerge during periods of economic disruption. Cooperative organizations are pluralistic and embedded in existing local economic contexts. Yet, the role that such organizations play can be pronounced when economic disruption occurs in...

We analyze infinitely repeated multiplayer prisoner's dilemmas in continuous-time experiments. As the number of players changes, our design keeps the payoffs of the all-defection, all-cooperation, and unilateral- defection and -cooperation outcomes constant, thus controlling for the minimum...

This paper presents an analytical economic democracy-shared capitalism framework to better understanding of the nature and firm-level drivers of employee ownership, in particular the purpose of the firm. This framework allows us to answer the question: to what extent and how does firm purpose...

Cooperatives are seen as the bedrock of democratic control and an alternative to capitalist enterprises but also as sites of ‘degeneration’ of democratic values and hopes. In this article, the authors conceptualize that cooperatives are a prime example of a paradoxical organization, which...

With their large, often unparalleled, retail outreach to otherwise underserved areas and populations, Cooperative Financial Institutions (CFIs) have significant potential to deepen financial inclusion in rural and marginal urban areas. Greater financial access (savings, credits, payments, among...

We propose a new model of mixed oligopoly where a workers' cooperative firms competes with a number of profit maximising companies. Building upon a large empirical evidence, we innovate as compared to the traditional literature on the objective function of the cooperative; moreover, its...