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1 online resource (xi, 283 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Comparative perspectives in business history
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Comparative perspectives in business history.
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| Summary |
"The Cooperative Business Movement, 1950 to the Present The United Nations declared 2012 the year of cooperatives, emphasizing that there is an alternative to privately owned firms. While greed and mismanagement have caused world financial and economic crises, co-ops offer another type of business for economic activities that is less exposed to aggressive capitalism. This book provides a problem- oriented overview of the development of cooperatives over the last fifty years. The worldwide study addresses the major challenges cooperatives face, such as the organizational innovations introduced in order to acquire necessary risk-capital and implement growth-related strategies, the wave of demutualization in developed nations and their ability to construct an original consumer politics"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Introduction: principal problems and general development of cooperative enterprise Patrizia Battilani and Harm Schröter; Part I. Cooperative Issues in a Global Overview: 1. The geographical dimension of the cooperative movement Ann Hoyt and Tito Menzani; 2. A world of variations: sectors and forms Vera Zamagni; 3. Cooperative movements in the Republic of Korea Hongjoo Jung and Hans Jürgen Rösner; 4. ' ... What is the end purpose of it all?': the centrality of values for cooperative success in the market place Ian MacPherson; 5. Why cooperatives fail: case studies from Western Europe, Japan, and North America, 1950-2010 Peter Kramper; 6. Co-ops' new challenge: demutualization and its problems Patrizia Battilani and Harm Schröter; Part II. Selected Core Issues of Cooperative Enterprise in a Historical Perspective: 7. Legal frameworks and property rights in US-agricultural co-ops: the hybridization of cooperative structures Fabio Chaddad and Michael Cook; 8. The performance of workers' cooperatives Verginie Pe;rotin; 9. Organization: top down or bottom up? The organizational development of consumer cooperatives, 1950-2000 Espen Ekberg; 10. The politics of commercial dynamics: consumer cooperative adaptations to post war consumerism in the UK and Sweden, 1950-2010 Katarina Friberg, Rachael Vorberg-Rugh, Anthony Webster and John Wilson; Conclusion: 11. The decisive factors of cooperatives' future: their nature, longevity, role, and environment Patrizia Battilani and Harm Schröter. |
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Cooperative Business Movement, 1950 to the Present -- Series Editors -- Title -- Contributors -- Introduction: Principal Problems and General Development of Cooperative Enterprise -- INTRODUCTION -- WHAT IS A CO-OP -- ORIGINS AND TYPES OF CO-OPS -- VARIATIONS IN PURPOSE -- IDEOLOGICAL FLEXIBILITY OF CO-OPS -- VARIATIONS ON THE EUROPEAN MODEL -- LITERATURE SURVEY -- HOW THIS BOOK IS ORGANIZED -- SECTION 1. COOPERATIVE ISSUES IN A GLOBAL OVERVIEW -- 1. International Cooperative Movement: A Quiet Giant -- INTRODUCTION -- WHAT ABOUT THE NUMBERS. |
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EUROPE: THE CRADLE OF COOPERATIONEngland -- Germany -- Italy -- INSPIRED BY EUROPE, INNOVATIVE BY NECESSITY: COOPERATIVES IN THE INDUSTRIAL GIANTS -- Unit ed. States and Canada -- Japan -- EXTRAORDINARY CASES IN THE NEWLY EMERGING INDUSTRIAL GIANTS: CHINA, INDIA, AND BRAZIL -- China -- India -- Brazil -- COOPERATIVES IN TRANSITIONAL ECONOMIES: EUROPE -- COOPERATIVES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: AFRICA AND LATIN AMERICA -- CONCLUSIONS -- 2. A World of Variations: Sectors and Forms -- COOPERATIVES IN AGRICULTURE AND FOOD PROCESSING -- COOPERATIVES IN FINANCE: CREDIT UNIONS AND MUTUALS -- RETAILING CO-OP. |
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NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN SERVICESTHE "MISSING" SECTOR: INDUSTRY -- CONCLUSIONS -- 3. Cooperative Movements in the Republic of Korea -- INTRODUCTION -- COOPERATIVES IN TIMES OF JAPANESE RULE -- Cooperatives Introduced by Japanese Authorities -- INITIATIVES FOR AUTONOMOUS COOPERATIVES -- EVOLUTION OF COOPERATIVES AFTER INDEPENDENCE -- Cooperatives in the Agricultural Sector -- COOPERATIVES IN THE FINANCIAL SECTOR -- Credit Cooperatives -- COMMUNITY CREDIT COOPERATIVES (CC) -- OTHER COOPERATIVES INITIATIVES -- Fishery Cooperatives -- NATIONAL FORESTRY COOPERATIVE FEDERATION (NFCF) -- CONSUMER COOPERATIVES. |
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KOREA FEDERATION OF SMALL AND MEDIUM BUSINESS (KFSB)HOUSING COOPERATIVES -- WORKER COOPERATIVES -- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- Literature -- Research Articles -- Statistics -- Internet Sources -- 4. ". . . What Is the End Purpose of It All ": The Centrality of Values for Cooperative Success in the Marketplace -- PROBLEMS WITH PRINCIPLES -- COMPLICATED VALUES INHERITANCE -- BACKGROUND TO THE 1990S' DISCUSSION OF CO-OPERATIVE VALUES -- IDENTIFYING THE CO-OPERATIVE VALUES -- CONTINUING CONCERNS -- REFLECTIONS. |
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5. Why Cooperatives Fail: Case Studies from Europe, Japan, and the United States, 1950-2010INTRODUCTION -- WHY COOPERATIVES FAIL: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES -- CASE 1: CENTRAL AND WESTERN EUROPEAN CONSUMER COOPERATIVES (1960-1985) -- CASE 2: JAPAN'S CREDIT COOPERATIVES (1970-2000) -- CASE 3: AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVES IN THE UNITED STATES (1990-2010) -- CONCLUSION -- 6. Demutualization and Its Problems -- INTRODUCTION -- DEMUTUALIZATION AS A WORLDWIDE PROCESS -- WHAT DROVE DEMUTUALIZATION -- Role of the Legal Framework -- Demutualization and Public Interest -- SUMMARY. |
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SECTION 2. SELECTED CORE ISSUES OF COOPERATIVE ENTERPRISE IN A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Cooperative societies -- History.
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Cooperative societies. |
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History. |
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Cooperative societies -- Case studies.
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Case studies.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Case studies.
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| Added Author |
Battilani, Patrizia.
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Schröter, Harm G., 1948-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cooperative business movement, 1950 to the present. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012 9781107028982 (DLC) 2012012293 (OCoLC)785122136 |
| ISBN |
9781139550116 (electronic book) |
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113955011X (electronic book) |
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9781139555074 (electronic book) |
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1139555073 (electronic book) |
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9781107028982 |
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1107028981 |
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