This paper investigates the motivation behind economic behaviour in the cooperative credit movement, and some of the inherent problems. In particular, the following hypotheses are analysed: the possibility of maintaining the principles of reciprocity and participation in the case of rapid growth...

We live in a world where money is the medium underpinning the circulation of goods and services. Without money it is impossible if not to survive at least to have access to basic products, including cultural or educational ones. From this perspective, Gaël Giraud proposes to analyse finance...

Little light has been shed on the functioning of business in potential post-growth economies. With this paper, we aim to expand discussions on post-growth economies to the company level and suggest one possible way to connect existing management practise with the fact that, in order to stay...

After the financial crisis, there has been considerable debate about the role of corporations in society. It has become broadly accepted that corporations - particularly the world's largest publicly traded corporations – need to be governed with respect for the society and the environment....

Organizational cultures affect trust levels but findings are contradictory. Fox's theory of high- and low-discretion syndromes and Bourdieu's field, practice, habitus, and capital concepts help explain contradictions by different or changing strategies of superiors, who either trust employees or...

In view of the decline in gain sharing by corporations with American workers over the last forty years, advocates for American workers have expressed growing interest in allowing workers to elect representatives to corporate boards. Board level representation rights have gained appeal because...

Each academic discipline wrestles with framing objects of study within its field. This paper is a reflexive analysis of the ontology of employee ownership (EO) and employee-owned businesses (EOBs) based on ten cases from two PhDs and two post-doctoral studies. We found that normative definitions...

The economic crisis which we are currently suffering has highlighted the greater stability of financial services cooperatives (FSC) in juxtaposition to the fragility of the rest of the banking sector. This has resulted in a resurgence of the cooperative form not only due to the positive effects...

In the conditions of environment changes the relationships between a company and advisor become more important. They are a significant part of business. Enterprises get involved in various kinds of relationships with advisors, despite the fact that they often require a different approach in...