Cooperatives In An Uncertain World
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Cooperatives In An Uncertain World
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Author : Michael Ambühl
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2024-06-13
Cooperatives In An Uncertain World written by Michael Ambühl and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-13 with Business & Economics categories.
This book focuses on different aspects of cooperatives in Switzerland and its neighboring countries, and their contribution to meeting overarching societal challenges. It seeks to identify how cooperatives can tackle grand societal challenges and extends the body of research on cooperatives. The discussions are highlighted in the context of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. The respective chapters cover topics such as cooperatives in Switzerland (historical roots, current landscape, embeddedness in profit/nonprofit organizations, participatory governance and legal aspects), grand societal challenges and cooperatives, and the future with and of cooperatives. This is an open access book.
Cooperatives In An Uncertain World
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Author : Michael Ambühl
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
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Cooperatives In An Uncertain World written by Michael Ambühl and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Cooperatives And The World Of Work
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Author : Bruno Roelants
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-07-16
Cooperatives And The World Of Work written by Bruno Roelants and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-16 with Business & Economics categories.
As the world of work and jobs is more uncertain than ever because of various trends impacting it, including the rise of robotics and the gig economy, Cooperatives and the World of Work furthers the debate on the future of work, sustainable development, and the social and solidarity economy of which cooperatives are a fundamental component. Throughout the book, the authors, who are experts in their respective fields, do not limit themselves to praising the advantages of the cooperative model. Rather, they challenge the narrow understanding of cooperatives as a mere business model and raise debate on the more fundamental role that cooperatives play in responding to social changes and in changing society itself. The book is unique in tracing the historical connection between cooperatives and the world of work since the end of the First World War and the recent shifts and restructuring in enterprise and the workplace. It presents a redefinition of the very concept of work, focusing on organizational innovation. This book is published in recognition of 100 years of the International Labour Organization, and gathers together research from leading experts who were brought together at an event co-hosted by the International Co-operative Alliance (ICA) and the International Labour Organization (ILO).
Community Development In An Uncertain World
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Author : Jim Ife
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-08-05
Community Development In An Uncertain World written by Jim Ife and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-05 with Business & Economics categories.
Provides a comprehensive introduction to modern community development, exploring the interrelated frameworks of social justice, ecological responsibility and post-Enlightenment thinking.
Cooperatives In The Global Economy
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Author : Tapas R. Dash
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2021-05-19
Cooperatives In The Global Economy written by Tapas R. Dash and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-19 with Business & Economics categories.
Cooperatives in the Global Economy presents a unique collection of research-based chapters contributed by leading social and economic thinkers that provide critical insights into how the cooperative business model meets the challenges of the complex global problems in today’s competitive economy. Apart from theoretical arguments in favor of the value-based cooperative business model, this book presents the performance indicators of various forms of cooperatives, their potentialities, and challenges they face across borders. The contributors reexamine how cooperatives empower the marginalized population of the world by bringing them into the mainstream of socio-economic activities through creating employment opportunities, working towards alleviation of poverty, ensuring for more equitable distribution of scarce resources, and providing the basis for a sustainable economy and its meaningful growth. Today, in the global competitive economy, the challenges for cooperatives are enormous due to their particular value commitments, forms of incorporation, and organizational structures. In spite of the presence of several challenges, cooperatives promote economic growth and social justice. In this context, this book also presents the critical roles of cooperatives in balancing economic, social, and environmental concerns to build a better, equitable, and sustainable world.
Trust In Cooperative Risk Management
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Author : Timothy C. Earle
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-05-04
Trust In Cooperative Risk Management written by Timothy C. Earle and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-04 with Business & Economics categories.
Trust is an important factor in risk management, affecting judgements of risk and benefit, technology acceptance and other forms of cooperation. In this book the world?s leading risk researchers explore all aspects of trust as it relates to risk management and communication. Drawing on a wide variety of disciplinary approaches and empirical case studies (on topics such as mobile phone technology, well-known food accidents and crises, wetland management, smallpox vaccination, cooperative risk management of US forests and the disposal of the Brent Spar oil drilling platform), this is the most thorough and up-to-date examination of trust in all its forms and complexities. The book integrates diverse research traditions and provides new insights into the phenomenon of trust. Factors that lead to the establishment and erosion of trust are identified. Insightful analyses are provided for researchers and students of environmental and social science and professionals engaged in risk management and communication in both public and private sectors. Related titles The Tolerability of Risk (2007) 978-1-84407-398-6
The Social As Metaphor And The Case Of Cooperatives
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Author : Marie L. Pellegrin-Rescia
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-01-15
The Social As Metaphor And The Case Of Cooperatives written by Marie L. Pellegrin-Rescia and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-15 with Social Science categories.
Drawing on Polanyi, Austin and Lacan, Marie Pellegrin-Rescia and Yair Levi offer a powerful critique of the language and categories of thought that dominate the contemporary intellectual and political landscape. The general tendency to dichotomize concepts such as left and right, social and economic, globalization and anti-globalization, is, they argue, a consequence of our subservience to the primacy of the rational economic agent. The authors offer a selection of case-studies of co-operatives, which are shown to be paradoxical entities in a worldview in which the social exists only as a metaphor for a space concerned with the damage caused by the economic. Through an analysis of experiences in achieving civil accord in South Africa and in establishing a new town in the mountains of Sicily, they offer a new political orientation in a world of uncertainty. In doing so they attempt an answer to one of the most intriguing questions of our time: should we accept as a fait-accompli the way our society is conceived and shaped, or can we have a say in the matter and assume the ethical responsibility involved?
The Cooperative Business Movement 1950 To The Present
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Author : Patrizia Battilani
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-05-14
The Cooperative Business Movement 1950 To The Present written by Patrizia Battilani and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-14 with BUSINESS & ECONOMICS categories.
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 worldwide study addresses the major challenges cooperatives face, such as the organizational innovations introduced in order 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. Generally speaking they show that this special kind of business will doubtless continue to thrive and to maintain an important position in a rapidly changing world economy.
Cooperatives In Transition
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Author : Rachael E. Goodhue
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Cooperatives In Transition written by Rachael E. Goodhue and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with categories.
The big bang approach to policy-making in transition economies advocates immediate privatization coupled with market liberalization and other reform measures. In the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union privatization has proceeded far more slowly than anticipated or recommended. The disjunction between expectations and outcomes is usually cast in terms of cultural and ideological considerations. In this paper, we offer a purely economic explanation for the persistence of non-market-oriented organizational forms; the optimal degree of privatization for a market in transition depends on the level of uncertainty regarding market conditions, including free market equilibrium levels of prices and quantities and the breakdown of sectoral composition between private and cooperative producers. In the short run, there is a tradeoff associated with the degree of privatization: as the degree of privatization increases, the full information welfare level increases, but the welfare-reducing price and production volatility due to the need to learn about market conditions increases as well. In addition there is a short-run/long-run tradeoff: increased privatization lengthens the short run with its associated welfare-reducing uncertainty, but speeds the rate of convergence to the free market equilibrium levels of prices and production once the long run period is reached. Specifically, as the level of uncertainty increases, the optimal level of privatization decreases monotonically.
The Co Operative Movement In The World Today
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Author : Hebe Spaull
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1965
The Co Operative Movement In The World Today written by Hebe Spaull and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with Cooperation categories.
Historical development and the social implications of the cooperative movement. Membership in production cooperatives (incl. Small scale industry), credit cooperatives and rural cooperatives. Government policy. Africa, Australia, Canada, Central America, Europe, East Asia, Middle East, South America, South Asia and USA.