Humanistic Governance in Democratic Organizations : The Cooperative Difference

Introduction -- Part 1 -- Humanism and the cooperative enterprise – theoretical foundations -- Parsing dignity for organizations -- Cooperative governance in context -- Part 2 -- Humanism and democracy in worker cooperatives -- Democratic cooperative governance: understanding the roles of the governing bodies -- Governance in Lincolnshire Consumer Cooperative -- Comparing governance systems in Cuban cooperatives: a study of producer and worker cooperatives in agriculture, industry and services -- From theory to practice: social capital in agricultural cooperatives in Flanders, Belgium -- The governance of multistakeholder cooperatives in Mondragon: The evolving relationship among purpose, structure, and process -- Networking, governance, and stakeholder engagement of financial cooperatives: some national case studies -- Part 3 -- Decades of radical self-management at a Venezuelan cooperative: Institutional distinctiveness and ideology -- Transformational resilience and future-ready cooperative governance systems -- Measuring transformational impact of cooperatives.