This paper examines the value interplay and governance challenges among cooperatives, particularly operating in an extreme environment such as Indonesia's BMTs (Islamic cooperatives). BMTs act as a "bridge" for small and medium enterprises to gain financial support unobtainable from more formal...

This paper examines the value interplay and governance challenges among cooperatives, particularly operating in an extreme environment such as Indonesia's BMTs (Islamic cooperatives). BMTs act as a "bridge" for small and medium enterprises to gain financial support unobtainable from more formal...

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...

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...

Governing the cooperatives’ management by payment systems turns out to be a non-trivial problem due to the specific characteristics of the legal structure. Evaluating the management’s performance is complicated by the business relations between members and their cooperative. A relative...

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...

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...