The cooperative business movement, 1950 to the present /

The cooperative business movement, 1950 to the present / [edited by] Patrizia Battilani, Harm G. Schrö̈ter. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012. - xi, 283 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Comparative perspectives in business history .

"The Cooperative Business Movement, 1950 to the Present 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"--

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Cooperative societies
Cooperative societies
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History.

HD2956 / .C647 2012


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