- The Oxford Handbook of Mutual, Co-operative, and Co-owned Business
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Abbreviations
- About the Contributors
- Introduction and Overview
- The Importance of Ownership
- Entrepreneurial Pluralism
- Liberal Philosophies of Ownership
- Co-operative Principles and Co-operative Law Across the Globe
- Co-operation as Co-ordination Mechanism: a new approach to the economics of co-operative enterprises
- The Social and Political Dimensions of Co-operative Enterprises
- A Worldwide Historical Perspective on Co-operatives and Their Evolution
- An American Historical Perspective on Employee Ownership
- Worker Co-operatives: good, sustainable jobs in the community
- Credit Unions and Co-operative Banks across the World
- Agricultural Co-operatives: a struggle for identity
- Social and Solidarity Co-operatives: an international perspective
- Community Co-operatives and Co-operatives Providing Public Services: facts and prospects
- How to Think about Global Employee Ownership
- Evidence: what the US research shows about worker ownership
- Enterprise Form, Participation, and Performance in Mutuals and Co-operatives
- Governance and Organizational Challenges
- Are Co-operatives Small? Evidence from the World Co-operative Monitor
- The Mondragón Experience
- Moving Towards 100% Employee Ownership Through ESOPs: added complexities in add-on transactions
- Social Co-operatives in Italy
- Co-operatives and the Transformation of the German Energy Sector
- Co-operatives in Latin America
- Developing and Sustaining Communities: the role of co-operatives
- Shared Capitalism in the USA: evaluation and future policies
- Workers—and Consumers—of the World Unite! Opportunities for Hybrid Co-operativism
- The Worker Co-operative Form in the Home Care Industry in the USA
- Raiffeisenbanks and Volksbanks for Europe: the case for co-operative banking in Germany
- Statutory Employee Stock Ownership Plans in the USA
- Employee Ownership in Britain Today
- Corporate Governance Beyond Neoliberalism: agency, democracy, and co-operation
- Co-operatives: A Development Strategy?: an analysis of argan oil co-operatives in south-west Morocco
- Fair Trade and Co-operatives
- From Traditional to Innovative Multi-Stakeholder Mutuals: the case of rochdale boroughwide housing
- The Emergence of Multi-Stakeholder Co-operatives in the Movement of Farm Machinery Co-operatives (CUMAs) in France
- Agricultural Co-operatives in China
- US Worker Co-operatives
- The Essential Role of Co-operative Law and Some Related Issues
- Conversion from Stakeholder Value to Shareholder Value Banks: the case of UK building societies
- The Performance of Member-Owned Businesses Since the Financial Crisis of 2008
- Creating Socially Sustainable Enterprise
- The Co-operative Business Model: the shape of things to come
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
There is a widespread belief that co-operatives are small-sized enterprises. However, some reports highlight that co-operatives have larger dimensions in certain areas than other types of companies. Starting from this premise, this paper contributes to the existing literature by providing empirical evidence on the size of co-operatives in different areas of the world, and by analysing data from approximately 2,000 co-operatives and mutual organizations from fifty-six different countries. These data are taken from the World Co-operative Monitor, a project promoted by the International Co-operative Alliance (ICA) in collaboration with the European Research Institute on Co-operative and Social Enterprises (Euricse). The purpose of the project is to take a step forward in measuring the dimensions of co-operatives and to make an initial attempt at quantifying the economic and social impact of the largest co-operatives worldwide.
Keywords: co-operatives, measurement, economic size, impact, World Co-operative Monitor
Chiara Carini, Researcher, European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises (Euricse, Italy)
Maurizio Carpita, Full Professor of Statistics, Department of Economics and Management, University of Brescia (Italy)
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- The Oxford Handbook of Mutual, Co-operative, and Co-owned Business
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Abbreviations
- About the Contributors
- Introduction and Overview
- The Importance of Ownership
- Entrepreneurial Pluralism
- Liberal Philosophies of Ownership
- Co-operative Principles and Co-operative Law Across the Globe
- Co-operation as Co-ordination Mechanism: a new approach to the economics of co-operative enterprises
- The Social and Political Dimensions of Co-operative Enterprises
- A Worldwide Historical Perspective on Co-operatives and Their Evolution
- An American Historical Perspective on Employee Ownership
- Worker Co-operatives: good, sustainable jobs in the community
- Credit Unions and Co-operative Banks across the World
- Agricultural Co-operatives: a struggle for identity
- Social and Solidarity Co-operatives: an international perspective
- Community Co-operatives and Co-operatives Providing Public Services: facts and prospects
- How to Think about Global Employee Ownership
- Evidence: what the US research shows about worker ownership
- Enterprise Form, Participation, and Performance in Mutuals and Co-operatives
- Governance and Organizational Challenges
- Are Co-operatives Small? Evidence from the World Co-operative Monitor
- The Mondragón Experience
- Moving Towards 100% Employee Ownership Through ESOPs: added complexities in add-on transactions
- Social Co-operatives in Italy
- Co-operatives and the Transformation of the German Energy Sector
- Co-operatives in Latin America
- Developing and Sustaining Communities: the role of co-operatives
- Shared Capitalism in the USA: evaluation and future policies
- Workers—and Consumers—of the World Unite! Opportunities for Hybrid Co-operativism
- The Worker Co-operative Form in the Home Care Industry in the USA
- Raiffeisenbanks and Volksbanks for Europe: the case for co-operative banking in Germany
- Statutory Employee Stock Ownership Plans in the USA
- Employee Ownership in Britain Today
- Corporate Governance Beyond Neoliberalism: agency, democracy, and co-operation
- Co-operatives: A Development Strategy?: an analysis of argan oil co-operatives in south-west Morocco
- Fair Trade and Co-operatives
- From Traditional to Innovative Multi-Stakeholder Mutuals: the case of rochdale boroughwide housing
- The Emergence of Multi-Stakeholder Co-operatives in the Movement of Farm Machinery Co-operatives (CUMAs) in France
- Agricultural Co-operatives in China
- US Worker Co-operatives
- The Essential Role of Co-operative Law and Some Related Issues
- Conversion from Stakeholder Value to Shareholder Value Banks: the case of UK building societies
- The Performance of Member-Owned Businesses Since the Financial Crisis of 2008
- Creating Socially Sustainable Enterprise
- The Co-operative Business Model: the shape of things to come
- Index
