Klappentext: Unterschiedliche Wirtschaftskulturen werden die Europäische Union wesentlich prägen. Gegenüber einer Perspektive, die nur Großbetriebe für die Herausbildung europäischer Wirtschaftskulturen betrachtet, lenkt dieses Buch den Blick auf klein- und mittelbetriebliche...

Are women disproportionately attracted to work environments where cooperation rather than competition is rewarded? This paper reports the results of a real-effort experiment in which participants choose between an individual compensation scheme and a team-based payment scheme. We find that women...

We provide the first econometric study of efficiency for a member of the Mondragon group of worker cooperatives. Eroski is a retail distribution chain and, most unusually, there are two distinct types of hypermarkets: (i) cooperatives with significant employee ownership and voice; and (ii) GESPAs...

A worker co-operative is a firm that is owned and managed by those who work in it. This paper provides a selective review of research in economics on worker cooperatives. It concentrates on the volatility of earnings and employment in the co-ops compared with conventional capitalist firms; on...