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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 …
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Most universities in Germany are public firms but they have many properties of co-operatives. The most important …
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A new generation of co-operative businesses has struggled to identify pathways to transformative scale in their industries. This case study analyses a multi-stakeholder network of single-stakeholder co-ops that emerged in the Colorado solar energy industry that could be a replicable model for...
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, cooperatives have been more severely affected than capitalist enterprises. The challenges faced by micro cooperatives began well … about employment seems featuring micro cooperatives more than conventional firms. Additionally, we will concentrate on micro …
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The organizational model described in this paper is intended to increase the proportion of cooperatives in the economy ….The motivation behind this paper is to help reduce wealth inequalities. Increasing the proportion of cooperatives in the economy … would reduce global wealth inequalities because cooperatives do not have the significant pay inequalities prevalent in …
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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 …
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The organizational model described in this paper is intended to increase the proportion of cooperatives in the economy ….The motivation behind this paper is to help reduce wealth inequalities. Increasing the proportion of cooperatives in the economy … would reduce global wealth inequalities because cooperatives do not have the significant wage inequalities prevalent in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014256193
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 …
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Our main objective is exploring the association between widespread prosperity and the presence of the cooperative movement at the regional level in Italy between 2010 and 2019. We summarize the widespread prosperity through an index originally proposed by Sen (1976) and we then perform a panel...
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Cooperatives, as both a strategy and an organizational form, often enable underprivileged individuals to collectively … compete in a market through joint-ownership agreements and democratic decision-making. While cooperatives are promoted as … argan oil cooperatives in southwest Morocco. Female-based cooperatives have been supported by donor organizations and …
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