Introduction: Korea's consumer co-operatives / Seungkwon Jang -- Co-operative governance practice / Ah Young Kim, Young-Jeong Cho and Seungkwon Jang -- Gender perspectives for consumer co-operatives / Ah Young Kim and Seungkwon Jang -- Price stability and asymmetric price transmission for...

"The Cooperative Business Movement, 1950 to the Present The United Nations declared 2012 the year of cooperatives, emphasizing that there is an alternative to privately owned firms. While greed and mismanagement have caused world financial and economic crises, co-ops offer another type of...

"Globally, consumer co-operation has experienced a difficult period since the 1970s. Large scale failures in France, Germany and Austria were accompanied by loss of market share in the UK (including the failure of the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society and its takeover by its English...