The Consumer Co-operation from Moldova, becoming an important segment of socio-economic system of the country, during its activity of around a century and a half passed through different periods of ascension and decline, resisting to the impact of the world economic crisis and internal ones. The...

Se analiza el financiamiento otorgado por las instituciones públicas municipales y regionales a las microempresas y empresas de la economía solidaria del Estado Zulia, Venezuela. Con información suministrada de las instituciones incluidas en el estudio (y Corpozulia), se examinan las...

Experimental evidence shows that people tend to be more cooperative with persons belonging to their own group than with others. Strangely enough, this literature largely fails to consider a type of group pervasive in modern societies: colleagues belonging to the same productive organization....

This paper presents a study of the Mondragon Cooperative Experience from the point of view of Organisational Engineering. It studies the origins and historical development of the Mondragon experience and its situation within the context of the Basque Country. It focuses on Mondragon’s...

After years of preconceptions about co-operatives in developing countries, scholars and international institutions have re-evaluated their role particularly in poverty reduction strategies. Crucial condition is that co-operatives are considered as genuine, authentically participatory...

En los últimos decenios las investigaciones sobre el tema de la economía social han conocido un notable impulso. El artículo pasa revista al estado actual de la investigación en esta materia y analiza las más importantes propuestas teóricas elaboradas en el ámbito del denominado tercer...

This study describes some actions carried out in the Lleida fruit sector regarding the concentration of supply and the creation of second level co-operatives. Following this the study analyses the actions adopted by a second level co-operative in the province, the entity which has managed to...

This paper analyses the repercussions of the institutional aspects of co-operatives in the decision making process, in arranging the incentive system for members, and discretionary behaviour among management. From a comparative analysis of capitalistic companies, the paper studies the nature of...

Who counts in co-operatives, and how? In this paper empirical results are presented from recent quantitative and qualitative studies on Belgian co-operatives in which questions about who counts in co-operatives and how were treated (Develtere, Meireman & Raymaekers, 2005; Dujardin, Mertens & Van...