Workers in cooperatives are self-employed workers and, if they resemble employees in conventional workplaces, they care …

conceptualised as part of the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE). Within this field, worker co-operatives appear as an option to … mainly safeguard employment and earn a living. Several cases have been documented about worker co-operatives as a way to … develop impoverished areas or vulnerable populations. However, co-operatives in many cases appear as a second best employment …

big investors-owned corporations. In 2008 the cooperatives affiliated to Legacoopservizi approved a Governance Code. This … research verifies the extent of application of the Code two years after its official endorsement in 49 service cooperatives …

A distinguishing feature of Italian worker cooperatives is the propensity to reinvest a huge share of profits into … asset locks, a common fund, non divisible and non appropriable by members, even at the end of the cooperative’s life. This … cooperatives affiliated to the Legacoop Ravenna, both analyzing firm-level data and individual survey data …

The paper discusses the problem of the workers' co-operatives, a form of work organization which expanded very quickly … what these co-operatives mean to the workers: on the one side, there is the view according to which workers' co-operatives … way they function in many cases, such co-operatives tend to appear as examples of the very deterioration of the conditions …

producer cooperatives that sprang up during the 1960s through the 1980s predates economists' recent work on reciprocity, but it … considers the roles that altruism and reciprocity might play in cooperatives, and it discusses the recent, largely experimental … literature on reciprocity and other social preferences, considering its relevance to cooperatives and to incentives in teams more …

Most universities in Germany are public firms but they have many properties of co-operatives. The most important …

We provide the first econometric study of efficiency for a member of the Mondragon group of worker cooperatives. Eroski … is a retail distribution chain and, most unusually, there are two distinct types of hypermarkets: (i) cooperatives with … service" employees is particularly important), cooperatives are found to outperform conventional stores. To investigate …

This work compares cooperatives with other firms along two lines: (1) a description of structural development; and (2 … 2001 and 2009, compared with other types of firms, Italian cooperatives maintained their greater size, lower labour … productivity and labour costs, and a similar level of profit margins. A survey conducted on a sample of cooperatives located in the …