The Cooperative Business Movement, 1950 to the Present
Patrizia Battilani · Harm G. Schröter
Aug 2012 · Cambridge University Press
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297
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The United Nations declared 2012 the year of cooperatives, emphasizing that there is an alternative to privately owned firms. While greed and mismanagement have caused world financial and economic crises, co-ops offer another type of business for economic activities that is less exposed to aggressive capitalism. This book provides a problem-oriented overview of the development of cooperatives over the last fifty years. The global study addresses the major challenges cooperatives face, such as the organizational innovations introduced to acquire necessary risk-capital and implement growth-related strategies, the wave of demutualization in developed nations and their ability to construct an original consumer politics. The contributors to this volume discuss the successes and failures of the cooperatives and ask whether they are an outdated model of enterprise. They document a wave of foundations of new co-ops, new forms of collaboration between them and a growing trend toward globalization.
About the author
Patrizia Battilani is Professor of Economic History at the University of Bologna, Italy. Battilani is co-author of Cooperation, Networks, Service: Innovation in Outsourcing (with G. Bertagnoni, 2010). She has had articles published in the Journal of Modern Italian Studies, the Journal of Tourism History and Entreprises et Histoire.
Harm G. Schröter is Professor of Economic History at the University of Bergen, Norway. Professor Schröter is president of the European Business History Association and is on several editorial boards. His most recent book is The European Enterprise: Historical Investigation into a Future Species (2008).
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