financial and economic crises. Finally, we offer some observations on cooperatives and innovation, and some perspectives on the …In this paper, we examine major trends and potential for cooperatives in the context of four prominent socio … present recent data on the amount and types of job creation in cooperatives. We consider co-ops in light of the recent …

financial and economic crises. Finally, we offer some observations on cooperatives and innovation, and some perspectives on the …In this paper, we examine major trends and potential for cooperatives in the context of four prominent socio … present recent data on the amount and types of job creation in cooperatives. We consider co-ops in light of the recent …

consumer co-operatives, agricultural and producer co-operatives, worker co-operatives, mutual building societies, friendly …

The organizational model described in this paper is intended to increase the proportion of cooperatives in the economy ….The motivation behind this paper is to help reduce wealth inequalities. Increasing the proportion of cooperatives in the economy … would reduce global wealth inequalities because cooperatives do not have the significant pay inequalities prevalent in …

a relatively large share of total national employment. Co-operatives play a countercyclical role in job creation during …This report explores the spatial dimension of productivity in the co-operatives of Italy, a country where they make up … sustainability. Productivity growth ensures that co-operatives can achieve both economic and social goals in the future. This report …

they are violated by the conventional firms based on the employment relations and are satisfied by the legal form of a …

A distinguishing feature of Italian worker cooperatives is the propensity to reinvest a huge share of profits into … asset locks, a common fund, non divisible and non appropriable by members, even at the end of the cooperative’s life. This … literature. The hypothesis that is suggested is that asset locks play a significant role in employment stabilization. This can …

producer cooperatives that sprang up during the 1960s through the 1980s predates economists' recent work on reciprocity, but it … considers the roles that altruism and reciprocity might play in cooperatives, and it discusses the recent, largely experimental … literature on reciprocity and other social preferences, considering its relevance to cooperatives and to incentives in teams more …