Reducing energy consumption and carbon emissions are two cornerstones of the fight against climate change. Signaling negative externalities of individual consumption on the environment is at the heart of public policies, and usually materializes through an increase in the price of polluting...

Board of directors are important elements in the structure and management of cooperatives. This study examines the relationships between cooperative board diversity (i.e., value and functional) and three performance variables (social performance, operational performance, and democratic...

"Globally, consumer co-operation has experienced a difficult period since the 1970s. Large scale failures in France, Germany and Austria were accompanied by loss of market share in the UK (including the failure of the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society and its takeover by its English...

In this paper, we analyze the impact of mergers of consumer cooperatives on consumers. We build a game-theoretic model of a supply chain where multiple suppliers produce a product to maximize their profits subject to capacity constraints, and multiple consumer cooperatives procure this product...

A series of observations on various types of cooperatives is constructed from intermittent surveys between 1920 and 1950 and, where possible, these are extended to recent years. These observations allow several questions to be taken up: how well have organizations that resemble consumers'...

Using the example of Turkey, where neoliberal economics combined with authoritarian politics formed conditions that have profound social consequences, this book investigates Alternative Consumer Cooperatives (ACCs) as spaces for prefigurative food politics.

A series of observations on various types of cooperatives is constructed from intermittent surveys between 1920 and 1950 and, where possible, these are extended to recent years. These observations allow several questions to be taken up: how well have organizations that resemble consumers'...

"This book analyses community owned businesses in countries around the world to show successful approaches and important strategies to improve access to essential services in vastly different economic contexts. Through eleven chapters, authors from various countries use case studies and analyse...

Introduction: Korea's consumer co-operatives / Seungkwon Jang -- Co-operative governance practice / Ah Young Kim, Young-Jeong Cho and Seungkwon Jang -- Gender perspectives for consumer co-operatives / Ah Young Kim and Seungkwon Jang -- Price stability and asymmetric price transmission for...

"Consumer co-operatives provide a different approach to organizing business through their ideals of member ownership and democratic practice. Every co-operative member has an equal vote regardless of his or her own personal capital investment. The co-operative movement can also be an important...

Introduction: Korea's consumer co-operatives / Seungkwon Jang -- Co-operative governance practice / Ah Young Kim, Young-Jeong Cho and Seungkwon Jang -- Gender perspectives for consumer co-operatives / Ah Young Kim and Seungkwon Jang -- Price stability and asymmetric price transmission for...

"Consumer co-operatives provide a different approach to organizing business through their ideals of member ownership and democratic practice. Every co-operative member has an equal vote regardless of his or her own personal capital investment. The co-operative movement can also be an important...

This paper examines cooperation and community development in the food sector. It explores how conventional consumer cooperatives located in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada support local producers as well as the role of their second-tier cooperative in hindering and facilitating this work....

"Grocery Story makes a compelling case for how food co-ops, as alternatives to corporate grocery giants, are spurring the creation of delicious local food economies and stronger communities, while changing the global food system for the better."--

Mr Bates goes to Washington : industrialisation, consumerism, overseas trade and British co-operation 1800-1890 : an overview -- Butter, dried fruit and the big apple : the rise of the CWS/SCWS as a global business 1863-1890 -- Indian cuppas, West African soap and Irish failures : the maturing...