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Changes in the Italian Economy : The Cooperatives

Bentivogli, Chiara - 2012

productivity and labour costs, and a similar level of profit margins. A survey conducted on a sample of cooperatives located in the …

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The Labor Supply of Self-Employed Workers : The Choice of Working Hours in Worker Co-Ops

Pencavel, John H. - 2014

Workers in cooperatives are self-employed workers and, if they resemble employees in conventional workplaces, they care about the length of their working hours. In this paper, their choice of hours is characterized as a conventional labor supply decision and a familiar hours-wage relationship is...

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Social and Solidarity Economy in a Neoliberal Context : Transformative or Palliative? The Case of an Argentinean Worker Cooperative

Raffaelli, Paola - 2018

has been minimised in the literature, by introducing the case of an Argentine workers' cooperative, this research …

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The spatial dimension of productivity in Italian co-operatives

OECD - 2021

This report explores the spatial dimension of productivity in the co-operatives of Italy, a country where they make up … sustainability. Productivity growth ensures that co-operatives can achieve both economic and social goals in the future. This report … applies a place-based approach to investigate the issue of productivity in co-operatives, given their many interdependencies …

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Co-Operatives Based on Interdependent Self-Governing Teams

Douglas, Brett - 2022

economy. This organizational model is of large co-operative companies that are networks of small co-operative self …-operatives’ current business models and some new co-operative business models are described. A constraint in the current and new …

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The Italian geography of regional resilience : the role of cooperative firms

Costa, Michele; Delbono, Flavio - 2021

if and how the composition of employment relates to regional resilience. We show that the size of the cooperative … this is not the case with cooperative added value as related to the resilience of regional GDP. Overall, the cooperative …

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Cooperatives in a global economy : key economic issues, recent trends, and potential for development

Smith, Stephen C.; Rothbaum, Jonathan - 2013

In this paper, we examine major trends and potential for cooperatives in the context of four prominent socio-economic issues: the lack of jobs, economic and social inequality, educational mobility, and the priority need for innovations. We present recent data on the amount and types of job...

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The economic preferences of cooperative managers

Alves, Guillermo; Blanchard, Pablo; Burdín, Gabriel; … - 2019

A growing body of research has been investigating the role of management practices and managerial behaviour in conventional private firms and public sector organizations. However, little is known about managers' behavioural profile in noninvestor-owned firms. This paper aims to fill this gap by...

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La Governance nelle Imprese Cooperative : Il Caso delle Cooperative Aderenti a Legacoopservizi (Governance in Cooperative Enterprises: The Case of Cooperatives Affiliated to Legaco...

Zanotti, Antonio - 2012

In the last years, the debate on cooperative governance has been extensive; nevertheless the research aimed at …

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Book review Jonathan Michie, Joseph R. Blasi and Carlo Borzaga (Eds.) : The Oxford Handbook of Mutual, Co-operative and Co-owned Business

Bodini, Riccardo - 2018

The Oxford Handbook of Mutuals and Co-Owned Business investigates all types of 'member owned' organizations, whether consumer co-operatives, agricultural and producer co-operatives, worker co-operatives, mutual building societies, friendly societies, credit unions, solidarity organizations,...

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