consumer co-operatives, agricultural and producer co-operatives, worker co-operatives, mutual building societies, friendly …

environment and weak institutional framework in particular in Poland. We use a purposive sample of 5 social cooperatives, and … report the data from several in-depth interviews with their representatives as well as observation from the cooperatives. We …

costs and lack of financial resources. Cooperatives and nonprofit organizations, i.e. social enterprises, are able to … marginalized areas, ensuring a fair and equal treatment among residents. Moreover, cooperatives and nonprofit organizations endorse …

Workers in cooperatives are self-employed workers and, if they resemble employees in conventional workplaces, they care …

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 … service" employees is particularly important), cooperatives are found to outperform conventional stores. To investigate …

review of research in economics on worker cooperatives. It concentrates on the volatility of earnings and employment in the …

This work compares cooperatives with other firms along two lines: (1) a description of structural development; and (2 … 2001 and 2009, compared with other types of firms, Italian cooperatives maintained their greater size, lower labour … productivity and labour costs, and a similar level of profit margins. A survey conducted on a sample of cooperatives located in the …

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 have stimulated the creation of pseudo cooperatives that displaced the …