Nous cherchons à caractériser le modèle de gouvernance des banques coopératives françaises à travers une approche large de la gouvernance qui englobe les modes de fonctionnement de la firme en interne et en externe. Nous montrons tout d’abord comment le statut oriente les banques...

This paper deal with cooperative banks. We discuss banalisation and cooperative identity trying to identify two faces of cooperative identity, in terms of rules and organisation in one hand, and in terms of labor cooperation in other one. Four dimensions are used to observe potential conflicts...

The authors analyze the tensions in co-operative development by drawing upon the works of the Montréal school of thought on co-operative management, the first contributions of which date to the creation of the Centre for Co-operative management at HEC Montréal in 1975. They suggest that the...

The export of finished products such as wine fulfils one of the objectives of fair trade which is to let the producing countries obtain maximum revenue. The authors studies three organizations that are part of the fair trade wine sector: Los Robles, a sexagenarian winemaking cooperative; El...

The evolution of the collective enterprise may be conceptualized in three phases throwing into relief five strategies for the creation of value. The first corresponds to the emergence of a collective enterprise, an innovation in itself. The second, the spread of the innovation by replication, is...

The authors analyze the tensions in co-operative development by drawing upon the works of the Montréal school of thought on co-operative management, the first contributions of which date to the creation of the Centre for Co-operative management at HEC Montréal in 1975. They suggest that the...

The aim of this paper is to make a comparative assessment of the industry organization in a selected number of European countries and understand the regulatory implications of the shifting of boundaries between market and public service domain. Using an institutional economic approach, focused...

Our main consideration here is to investigate the challenges and future prospects of the Greek Social Economy in light of the implementation of Law 4019/2011, the first ever on Social Economy and Social Entrepreneurship. Low administrative and academic visibility along with inherent...