"Centering the experiences of small-scale tin miners organized into mining cooperatives, Subterranean Matters explores the relationship between labor, geological materialities, and expressions of nationalism in contemporary Bolivia. Mining cooperatives occupy a contradictory place in Bolivian...

When radical new approaches to entrepreneurship are sought, they almost invariably return to the origin point of conventional firms. This chapter, however, will show that radical entrepreneurship, far from being the purview of capitalist enterprises, can be found in abundance in the cooperative...

Worker cooperatives: what workers want -- "By deed instead of by argument:" worker ownership in the United States -- Metamorphoses: worker cooperatives in the Golden Valley -- People's Daily Bread Bakery: worker ownership, working-class empowerment -- One World Natural Grocery: managing without...

Cooperatives, an important part of Oceania’s economies, are attracting renewed interest as an organisational form for addressing societal challenges. Yet that mission often depends on growth and internationalisation strategies, which introduce multiple tensions that can lead to an erosion of...

This paper aims at understanding whether producer cooperatives are efficient organisational forms, through the lenses of Transaction Cost Economics. To accomplish this goal I will answer the questions what is a cooperative, why do cooperatives exist, which transactions should producer...

Introduction : Blessed are the cheese makers? Catholic liberation, social capital, women, and neoliberalism in contemporary Ecuador -- Why Catholic women make cheese -- Reproducing women : gendered social capital in local contexts -- Marketing the domestic church -- Las Juanes : charismatic...

Stand der Forschung: Besprechung bisheriger theoretischer und empirischer Beiträge -- Qualitative Methoden: Untersuchung kausaler Faktoren mittels Interviews vor Ort -- Theorietriangulation: Unterschiedliche Perspektiven, die durch einheitliche Theorie höherer Reichweite verbunden werden

Das Diskussionspapier reflektiert die sozio-ökonomische Macht erneuerbarer Energieproduktions-Genossenschaften für eine Energiewende in Deutschland. Energiegenossenschaften sind durch ihr starkes Wachstum seit dem Jahr 2006, ihre Beteiligung an lokalen Energieprojekten, sowie ihrem...

What are co-operatives? -- The origins of the idea and the rochdale pioneers: before 1844 -- The early years and the rise of co-operative wholesaling: 1844-1864 -- Diversification, internationalization and the formation of the international co-operative alliance: 1864-1914 -- The challenges of...

What are co-operatives? -- The origins of the idea and the rochdale pioneers: before 1844 -- The early years and the rise of co-operative wholesaling: 1844-1864 -- Diversification, internationalization and the formation of the international co-operative alliance: 1864-1914 -- The challenges of...

The relative efficiency of producer cooperatives is investigated through an examination of the financial performance of a group of cotton spinning firms that emerged from the spread of cooperative ideals after the mid nineteenth century. Reflecting such influences these firms adopted two...

An argument often adopted to explain the relatively scarce presence of Producer Co-operatives (PCs) in Western capitalist economies is the instability that may affect this type of firm during the positive phases of the business cycle. In a nutshell the argument is that in profitable industries...

We outline an economic theory of choice of organizational form, concentrating on explaining the selection of contractual relations within employee-owned firms. We then test the theory on a new database of U.S. producer cooperatives and find that the theory is largely supported by the data. Our...

We evaluate the impact of fair trade (FT) affiliation on a sample of (treatment and control) producers from two different fair trade projects in a poorer and a relatively better off area of Peru. In both projects, we find that producer’s income is significantly associated with years of...

1. Marx, Lenin and the cooperative movement -- 2. Is Marxism compatible with modern economic theory? -- 3. The problem of investment funding in labour-managed firms -- 4. Under-investment in labour-managed firms -- 5. Alchian and Demsetz's critique of labour-managed firms -- 6. On rational...