This book investigates the merits of a diverse banking system with a special focus on the performance and role of cooperative banks in seven European countries where they are prominent (Austria, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain). The theoretical and empirical arguments...

This paper which is mainly based on the primary research carried out for one of the author's PhD thesis. It examines the case of an organisation that has positioned itself in the marketplace as both ethical as well as ideologically green. The Co-operative Bank's ethical and green policies are...