Global Cooperative Economics and Movements: A Research Companion

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Cooperatives are traditionally recognized as marginal players in the economic sector, but their role in policymaking and in social arenas has garnered even less attention. Over the past two decades, an extensive body of literature in management science and economics has arisen, designating non-capitalistic enterprises as subjects of particular attention. In the context of rising global challenges... Read more

Cooperatives are traditionally recognized as marginal players in the economic sector, but their role in policymaking and in social arenas has garnered even less attention. Over the past two decades, an extensive body of literature in management science and economics has arisen, designating non-capitalistic enterprises as subjects of particular attention. In the context of rising global challenges like economic inequality, environmental sustainability, and labor rights, the role of cooperatives has become increasingly relevant. This book examines the practical and policy dimensions and implications of cooperative economics and movement(s). It delves into the more politicized aspects of cooperatives, exploring how they intersect with global movements, social justice, policymaking, and grassroots activism and provides insights into real struggles tackled by this enterprise form. It offers an understanding of how communication in cooperatives plays a role in promoting principles, values and practices and how these are transferred across generations of cooperators. It provides a deeper understanding of the elements of intergenerational evolution within cooperatives in concepts on employment and labour as new policies are raising expectations. Further, it offers a broad variety of global case studies pertinent to issues of relevance to cooperative economics and management, profiling how different types of cooperatives on six continents can promote sustainability and self-organized community wealth-generation, connecting to development studies, ethics and political economy, while revealing how cooperatives can address the current challenges of the digital age, especially including issues of data governance and artificial intelligence. The book will serve as an invaluable tool for anyone seeking to understand the broader implications of cooperative models in today's globalized world.

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Part 1: Mutualism and Movements 1. Mark J. Kaswan, Patrick Develtere, Zhao Li, Sizwe Mkwanazi, Colombia Pérez Muñoz: “Cooperatives and Social Transformation: An Assessment of the Global Cooperative Movement and its diverse Trajectories” 2. Igor Ortega-Sunsundegi, Marixe Ruiz-de-Austri-Arexolalebia, Miren Zuberogoitia-Kaltzakorta & Fred Freundlich ; “Responsibility as Emancipation in Cooperative Thought and in Mondragon” 3. Jerome Warren & Alessandro Narduzzo: “Community Cooperatives and Institutional Innovation” 4. Denise Kasparian & Julián Rebón; “New Cooperativism in Argentina” 5. Kosta Juri, Jerome Warren, Claudia Henke and Tej Gonza “Old School Meets New: Global Efforts to Promote Cooperative Principles through Modern Employee-Buyout Innovations” Part 2: Country and Regional overviews 6. Ana Paula Travisani & Miguel Córdova: “Legislative Challenges and Opportunities for Employee Ownership in Brazil” 7. Lili María Inés Vázquez, Matias Bertranou & Fabian Schiaffino: “INCUBACOOP & Mapocho: Cooperative Incubation and Acceleration in the Southern Cone” 8. Andrés Spognardi; “New Forms of Cooperation: An Examination of ‘Integral Cooperatives’ in the Iberian Peninsula” 9. Florentina Astleithner, Markus Blümel, Andreas Exner, Julia Hochrainer & Florian Jagschitz: “Cooperativism in Austria: Between Aspiration and Anachronism” 10. Oluwatosin O. Onayeaskmi, Bukunmi Agboola, Adedayo Adedotun, & Kemi Ogunyemi: “ROSCAs to Cooperatives: Empowering African Women in the Informal Economy” 11. Ali Al-Assam & Choo-Chen Sim, “The Cooperative Sector in the People's Republic of China: Development, Characteristics, and Growth” 12. Akira Kurimoto, “How Japanese and South Korean Cooperatives Have Evolved: A Comparative Study from a Developmentalist State Perspective ” Part 3: Sectoral Overviews 13. Akira Kurimoto, “Consumer Cooperatives Contribution to the Circular Economy: The Japanese Case” 14. Asia Guerreschi, Antonio Lopez & Roberto Mario De Stefano: “Corporate Sustainability Reporting in Italian Supermarkets: A Discourse Comparative Analysis of Coop, Conad, and Esselunga’s 2023 Sustainability Reports ” 15. Ramiro Reinaga, Elena Garnevska & Nicola Shadbolt: “Common Cultural Background: The Key to Success of Two Agricultural Bolivian Cooperatives ” 16. Louis-Antoine Saisset:“Democracy and innovative governance in French agricultural co-ops: an exploratory study” 17. Jos Bijman, “Dairy Cooperatives Around the World” 18. Simon Berge, Adaora Onaga & Stanley Emife Nwani: “Sustainable Healthcare and Eldercare Provision through Cooperatives: Challenges and Opportunities.” 19. Ludger Voigt & Julia Beideck: “Cultural services in rural areas: The case of a German theater cooperative ” 20. Stefano Tortorici: “The Challenges of Platform Cooperatives and the Path Ahead” 21. Morshed Mannan, Simon Pek, and Vangelis Papadimitropoulos: “The Cooperative Governance of Artificial Intelligence: The Case of READ-COOP’s Transkribus Platform” Part 4: Education and Communication for Cooperation 22. Lisa Callagher, Frank Siedlok & Vareska van de Vrande: “Innovating together: Cooperatives’ communication as knowledge flows and innovation” 23. Susanne Maria Weber & Thorben Seidler: “Transforming towards Commoning Cooperatives: The Potential of the Pattern Language of Commoning for Organisational Learning” 24. Federico Li Bonilla; “The Development of New Cooperatives through Social Spin-offs and the Quintuple Helix: Towards an Innovative and Socially Responsible University Model” 25. Véronique De Herde & Tine De Moor, “Cooperative data in a comparative perspective: avoiding pitfalls for robust data aggregation” Part 5: Cooperatives, Care and Development 26. Ayushi Arora, Kardelen Dilara Cazgir, Julia Lisiecka and Anna Waligóra “Women's Cooperatives Promoting Resilience: Comparing Indian, Polish and Turkish Contexts” 27. Francesca Pamio, Giacomo Buzzao, Vittoria Erculiani, Paola Olimpia Achard, Francesco Rullani, Luca Mongelli: “Work Integration in Prisons: A Taxonomy of Social Cooperatives” 28. Daniele Bigi, Marco Lomuscio, Marcelo Vieta: “Struggling for Sustainability at an Italian Worker-Recuperated Enterprise: The Case of ex-GKN” 29. Susan Akinwalere & Kirk Chang, “Poverty Alleviation through Global Economic Cooperation: The African Context”

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Jerome Nikolai Warren is a researcher at the University of Cologne Germany.

Kemi Ogunyemi is an Associate Professor at Lagos Business School, Pan-Atlantic University, Lagos, Nigeria.

Asia Guerreschi is a Research Fellow in the Department of Economics and Management, University of Ferrara, Italy and SEEDS.

Maciej Szulc is a researcher specializing in cooperatives and their corporate governance and has held managerial positions in marketing and communications across a range of companies in Poland, Germany, and Sweden.

Global Cooperative Economics and Movements A Research Companion

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