Introduction -- The cooperative legislative framework : enabling growth and promoting cooperative principles -- Central … : economies of scale and national expansion -- From large cooperatives to cooperative groups : a new cooperative model …? -- Entrepreneurship : start-ups, worker-buyouts and social cooperatives -- Cooperative resilience : managing the global financial crisis …

development of cooperation in the world -- 5. The cooperative movement in Italy -- 6. The economic performance of cooperative …This eloquent book analyses the theory of the cooperative form of enterprise from an historic perspective, whilst …1. Introduction -- 2. The birth of cooperative enterprise : where, when, how -- 3. What is a cooperative? -- 4. The …