Zoe Adams PhD student, studying law at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge

Xabier Barandiaran Lecturer in the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences at the University of Deusto, working in the areas of governance, political communication, and social capital

Daphne Berry Assistant Professor of Management, Barney School of Business, University of Hartford, Robert Beyster Fellow, W.K. Kellogg Fellow

Johnston Birchall Emeritus Professor at Stirling University, Scotland. A social economist specializing in the study of member-owned businesses. Most recent books are People-Centred Businesses; Co-operatives, Mutuals and the Idea of Membership (Macmillan 2011), and Finance in an Age of Austerity: The Power of Customer-owned Banks (Edward Elgar 2013)

Joseph R. Blasi J. Robert Beyster Distinguished Professor, Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations and Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research

Holger Blisse Doctor/Researcher at the Department of Business Administration (Unit for Cooperative Studies) at the University of Vienna (Austria) (2009–2014)

Carlo Borzaga Professor at the University of Trento, and President of Euricse (European Research Institute on Cooperatives and Social Enterprises)

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)

Maurie J. Cohen Professor of Sustainability Studies and Director of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and co-founder and board member of the Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative

Peter Couchman Chief Executive, Plunkett Foundation

William Davies Reader in Political Economy, Goldsmiths, University of London

(p. xx) Simon Deakin Professor of Law and Director of the Centre for Business Research at the University of Cambridge

Sara Depedri PhD, Senior Researcher at Euricse (European Research Institute of Cooperatives and Social Enterprises), Trento, Italy

Zahir Dossa PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

David Erdal Dr., Honorary Researcher, School of Management, University of St Andrews. Author of Beyond the Corporation: Humanity Working (The Bodley Head 2011)

Giovanni Ferri Professor of Economics, LUMSA University of Rome, Italy

Antonio Fici Associate Professor of Private Law at the University of Molise (Italy) and Senior Research Fellow at Euricse (European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises)

Richard B. Freeman Ascherman Professor of Economics, Harvard University; Director, Science Engineering Workforce Project, National Bureau of Economic Research; Faculty Co-Director, The Labor and Worklife Program, Harvard Law School; Co-Director, Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities; and Senior Research Fellow in Labour Markets at the Centre for Economic Performance

Giulia Galera Senior researcher at Euricse (European Research Institute on Co-operative and Social Enterprises)

Michela Giovannini PhD, researcher at Euricse (European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises)

Silvio Goglio Associate Professor, University of Trento

Charles Gould Director-General, International Co-operative Alliance

Markus Hanisch Prof. Dr., Humboldt University Berlin, Department of Agricultural Economics, Cooperative Sciences Group/Economics of Agricultural Co-operatives

Hagen Henrÿ Adjunct Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Helsinki and Research Director at the Ruralia Institute of that university

John Hoffmire Director, Center on Business and Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Director, Impact Bond Fund, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

Detlev Hummel Prof. Dr./Professor for Banking and Finance at the University of Potsdam (Germany)

Benjamin Huybrechts Professor, Centre for Social Economy, HEC Liège Management School, University of Liège

Panu Kalmi PhD, Professor, University of Vaasa

(p. xxi) Mark J. Kaswan Department of Political Science, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and J. Robert Beyster, Michael W. Huber, and W.K. Kellogg Fellow, Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations

Lou Hammond Ketilson Dr., Fellow in Co-operative Management, Centre for the Study of Co-operatives; Adjunct Professor, Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Saskatchewan, Canada

Douglas L. Kruse Distinguished Professor, Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations and Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research

Angelo Leogrande PhD in Economics, University of Bari ‘Aldo Moro’, Italy

Javier Lezaun Associate Professor in the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography and James Martin Lecturer in Science and Technology Governance at the University of Oxford

David T. Llewellyn Professor of Money and Banking, Loughborough University; Council Member, SUERF (The European Money and Finance Forum); Member, European Association of Cooperative Banks Think Tank; Chair of the European Banking Authority’s Banking Stakeholder Group

Jonathan Michie FAcSS, DPhil, Professor of Innovation and Knowledge Exchange at the University of Oxford, Director of the University’s Department for Continuing Education and President of Kellogg College

Pier Angelo Mori Professor of Economics, Department of Economics and Management, University of Florence

Alex Nicholls Professor, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

Samira Nuhanovic-Ribic PhD, Director of Social Business Incubator, Mozaik Foundation, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Andrew Pendleton Professor of Human Resource Management, Durham University Business School, Durham, UK; Faculty Fellow and Mentor, Beyster Program, School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA

Virginie Pérotin Professor of Economics, Leeds University Business School, Leeds, UK

Victor A. Pestoff Professor Emeritus, Ersta-Sköndal University College, Stockholm, Sweden; Guest Professor, Osaka University, Japan; and Adjunct Professor, Roskilde University, Denmark

Andrew Robinson Professor of Finance and Accounting, Leeds University Business School, Leeds, UK; Visiting Professor, Université Paris II-Sorbonne Universités, France

Loren Rodgers Executive Director, National Center for Employee Ownership (USA)

(p. xxii) Corey Rosen Founder, National Center for Employee Ownership (USA)

Franck Thomas Deputy Director/National Federation of Cuma; studying co-operatives’ innovations in rural France

Daniel Tischer PhD, Lecturer in Political Economy and Organisation Studies, Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester

Ermanno C. Tortia PhD, Associate Professor at the Unversity of Trento, Department of Economics and Management. Affiliated to Euricse (European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises, Trento)

Vladislav Valentinov Senior Researcher at the Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies, Halle, Germany

Marcelo Vieta Assistant Professor, Program in Adult Education and Community Development, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto, Canada

Stuart White Tutorial Fellow in Politics at Jesus College, Oxford

Ruth Yeoman Research Fellow, Kellogg College, University of Oxford

Vera Zamagni Professor of Economic History at the University of Bologna and at the Johns Hopkins University, SAIS Europe, Bologna

Li Zhao Assistant Professor at the Rural Development Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences