of the cooperative. In the presence of a financial market, cooperative shares would be issued and allocated to both … democratic governance of the cooperative, peer pressure, and other horizontal monitoring mechanisms, would support members …

We propose a new model of mixed oligopoly where a workers' cooperative firms competes with a number of profit … objective function of the cooperative; moreover, its membership is treated as endogenous in the Cournot-Nash equilibrium. We … show which factors may be responsible of the degeneration of the workers' cooperative firms, which occurs when the number …

account the cooperative specificity as far as partner-producer duality is concerned. The populations analyzed are the olive … regression for the analysis of profitability. For the latter, a cooperative global profitability indicator has been defined. The … superiority disappears as the cooperative gains dimension. Our findings show that the relative performance of cooperatives and …