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Worker Cooperatives and Democratic Governance
Pencavel, John H. - 2012
A worker co-operative is a firm that is owned and managed by those who work in it. This paper provides a selective … efficiency of co-ops; and on problems of democratic governance within co-ops. Using modern empirical methods applied to large …
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Worker cooperatives and democratic governance
Pencavel, John H. - In: Handbook of economic organization : integrating …, (pp. 462-480). 2013
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Worker cooperatives and democratic governance
Pencavel, John H. - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009632188
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Efficiency in Employee-Owned Enterprises : An Econometric Case Study of Mondragon
Arando, Saioa - 2011
We provide the first econometric study of efficiency for a member of the Mondragon group of worker cooperatives. Eroski … difference models we find that hypermarket stores with cooperative ownership grow sales significantly faster than GESPA stores … cooperatives. Finally, while cooperative members are better paid than their peers in comparable firms, individual-level data also …
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The performance of cooperative vs capitalistic micro firms in the pandemic
Costa, Michele; Delbono, Flavio; Linguiti, Francesco - 2023
We present a statistical analysis of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Italian micro enterprises. Within the period we are examining (2012-2021), our primary focus will be on the last two years. We will show that, overall, cooperatives have been more severely affected than capitalist...
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Worker Cooperatives as Based on First Principles
Ellerman, David - 2018
worker cooperative. The conventional bundle of rights in a corporation is analysed and then shown how it is changed and … reparsed in a worker cooperative according to those first principles …
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Chapter 22 Reciprocity, altruism, and cooperative production
Putterman, Louis - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1409-1435). 2006
Economists believe that a problem of team production results from the desirability of production in (sometimes large) groups, the difficulty of rewarding individual group members based on their (difficult or impossible to measure) individual contributions, and the presumed interest of each...
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Associated Worker Cooperatives in Colombia : Public Policies Balance 2002-2007
Farné, Stefano - 2008
During the last years, worker cooperatives have greatly increased in Colombia. Many public and private enterprises subcontract with Associated Worker Cooperatives in order to benefit from considerable savings stemming from outsourcing and tax exemptions that cooperatives enjoy. These savings...
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The Italian Road to Creating Worker Cooperatives from Worker Buyouts : Italy's Worker-Recuperated Enterprises and the Legge Marcora Framework
Vieta, Marcelo - 2015
framework, namely: workers, the cooperative sector, and the state …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013018004
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Participatory Bureaucracy : Addressing Gender Inequality in Worker Cooperatives
Meyers, Joan S. M. - 2022
Worker cooperatives—firms owned and governed by their workers—have experimented with organizational structure in aid of greater equality. Gender theorists and cooperativists have argued that bureaucracy produces inequality, but bureaucracy has also demonstrably reduced organizational...
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