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This article is an entry to be published in an International Encyclopedia of Civil Society in 2009. Mutual organizations exist everywhere in developed and developing countreies as well. After a definition founded on social economy principles, the paper gives the historical background of mutual...
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International standard classifications were built to simplify the complex world of the business sector and analyse the international exchange of goods. Therefore they are less fitted to the classification of social economy organizations(SEO) and provision of services. Firstly this chapter...
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This article aims to investigate the multiple meanings of "économie sociale" ("social economy"), a term which first appeared in France at the founding moment of modern capitalism, both as a concept in the framework for the creation of a social science in close relation with the tradition of...
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This article aims to investigate the multiple meanings of "économie sociale" ("social economy"), a term which first appeared in France at the founding moment of modern capitalism, both as a concept in the framework for the creation of a social science in close relation with the tradition of...
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Are women disproportionately attracted to work environments where cooperation rather than competition is rewarded? This …
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(cooperation) solutions, in a model of investment timing allowing for externalities in both flow pro...ts and investment costs. For …. Optimal cooperation involves either monopoly or duopoly investment, the latter being either symmetric or asymmetric. Finally …&D input choices, if investment synergies are large, coordination and cooperation result in the same outcomes. …
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examination of a number of case studiesof joint efforts, a model for cooperation is developed. Critical success factors for …
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In his chapter 13 of the Capital, Marx shows that cooperation involves coordination whatever the mode of production is …
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Does formal contracting foster cooperation in a buyer-supplier relationship? In line with the literature, we find that a … that a renegotiable contract may induce more cooperation than an informal arrangement can. This result may help to … understand how cooperation emerges in Japanese procurement practices, which typically involve relationshipspecific joint …
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one-stage version of this model. Even though the level of cooperation appears to be much higher than predicted, our data …
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