This Handbook investigates all types of 'member owned' organizations, whether consumer co-operatives, agricultural and producer co-operatives, or worker co-operatives among many others. The chapters reflect the latest academic research and thinking on each topic, as well as reporting the relevant policy debates.
Jonathan Michie is Professor of Innovation and Knowledge Exchange at the University of Oxford, where he is President of Kellogg College, Director of the Department for Continuing Education, and Director of the Oxford Centre for Mutual & Employee-owned Business. Jonathan is a member of Defra's Economic Advisory Panel; Council member and Chair of the Audit & Risk Management Committee for the Academy of Social Sciences. From 2004-2008 Jonathan was Director of Birmingham Business School. From 1997-2004 he held the Sainsbury Chair of Management at Birkbeck, University of London where he was Head of the School of Management & Organizational Psychology. From 1992-1997 he was at the Judge Business School in Cambridge where he was also a Fellow & Director of Studies in Economics at Robinson College. Joseph Blasi is the J. Robert Beyster Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University's School of Management and Labor Relations in New Brunswick, New Jersey and Director of the Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing at Rutgers. An economic sociologist, Blasi studies the social history of the corporation and corporate governance with a special emphasis on organizations where rewards, power, and prestige are broadly distributed, as in the case of employee share ownership and profit sharing in business. Within the Institute, he also leads a national competitive Fellowship Program that grants research fellowships and gathers over a hundred research scholars in academic conferences on these subjects. He is co-author of The Citizen's Share (Yale University Press, 2013) and a frequent policy advisor on these issues. Carlo Borzaga is full Professor of Economic policy at the University of Trento (Italy) and President of the European Research Institute on Cooperatives and Social Enterprise (Euricse). He also chairs the Master Programme in Management of Social Enterprises at the University of Trento and is a founding member of the EMES European Research network. Prof. Borzaga sits on the scientific committee of numerous Italian and European journals and is co-editor of the newly launched international Journal of Entrepreneurial and Organizational Diversity (JEOD). He has authored and co-edited numerous books and papers on labour economics and social and cooperative enterprises.
Show moreThis Handbook investigates all types of 'member owned' organizations, whether consumer co-operatives, agricultural and producer co-operatives, or worker co-operatives among many others. The chapters reflect the latest academic research and thinking on each topic, as well as reporting the relevant policy debates.
Jonathan Michie is Professor of Innovation and Knowledge Exchange at the University of Oxford, where he is President of Kellogg College, Director of the Department for Continuing Education, and Director of the Oxford Centre for Mutual & Employee-owned Business. Jonathan is a member of Defra's Economic Advisory Panel; Council member and Chair of the Audit & Risk Management Committee for the Academy of Social Sciences. From 2004-2008 Jonathan was Director of Birmingham Business School. From 1997-2004 he held the Sainsbury Chair of Management at Birkbeck, University of London where he was Head of the School of Management & Organizational Psychology. From 1992-1997 he was at the Judge Business School in Cambridge where he was also a Fellow & Director of Studies in Economics at Robinson College. Joseph Blasi is the J. Robert Beyster Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University's School of Management and Labor Relations in New Brunswick, New Jersey and Director of the Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing at Rutgers. An economic sociologist, Blasi studies the social history of the corporation and corporate governance with a special emphasis on organizations where rewards, power, and prestige are broadly distributed, as in the case of employee share ownership and profit sharing in business. Within the Institute, he also leads a national competitive Fellowship Program that grants research fellowships and gathers over a hundred research scholars in academic conferences on these subjects. He is co-author of The Citizen's Share (Yale University Press, 2013) and a frequent policy advisor on these issues. Carlo Borzaga is full Professor of Economic policy at the University of Trento (Italy) and President of the European Research Institute on Cooperatives and Social Enterprise (Euricse). He also chairs the Master Programme in Management of Social Enterprises at the University of Trento and is a founding member of the EMES European Research network. Prof. Borzaga sits on the scientific committee of numerous Italian and European journals and is co-editor of the newly launched international Journal of Entrepreneurial and Organizational Diversity (JEOD). He has authored and co-edited numerous books and papers on labour economics and social and cooperative enterprises.
Show moreIntroduction
Part I: Diversity and Complexity of Member-Owned Enterprises
1: Jonathan Michie: The Importance of Ownership
2: Giovanni Ferri and Angelo Leogrande: Entrepreneurial
Pluralism
3: Stuart White: Liberal Philosophies of Ownership
4: Hagen Henrÿ: Co-operative Principles and Co-operative Law Across
the Globe
Part II: Rationale of Co-operative Enterprises
5: Carlo Borzaga and Ermanno C Tortia: Co-operation as
Co-ordination Mechanism: A New Approach to the Economics of
Co-operative Enterprises
6: Victor A Pestoff: The Social and Political Dimensions of
Co-operative Enterprises
Part III: History of Member-owned Organizations
7: Vera Zamagni: A World-Historical Worldwide Perspective on
Co-operatives and their Evolution
8: Joseph R Blasi and Douglas L Kruse: An American Historical
Perspective on Employee Ownership
Part IV: Co-Operatives, Mutuals, Member-Owned And Employee-Owned
Enterprises in the Global Economy
9: Virginie Pérotin: Worker Co-Operatives: Good, Sustainable Jobs
in the Community
10: Silvio Goglio and Panu Kalmi: Credit Unions and Co-operative
Banks Across the World
11: Samira Nuhanovic-Ribic, Ermanno C. Tortia, and Vladislav
Valentinov: Agricultural Co-operatives: A Struggle for Identity
12: Giulia Galera: Social and Solidarity Co-operatives: An
International Perspective
13: Pier Angelo Mori: Community Co-operatives and Co-operatives
Providing Public Services: Facts and Prospects
14: Loren Rodgers: How to think About Global Employee Ownership
Part V:V. Political, Governance, and Organizational Aspects
15: Joseph R Blasi, Richard B Freeman, and Douglas L Kruse:
Evidence: What the US Research Shows about Worker Ownership
16: Zoe Adams and Simon Deakin: Enterprise Form, Participation, and
Performance In Mutuals and Co-operatives
17: Peter Couchman: Governance And Organizational Challenges
18: Chiara Carini and Maurizio Carpita: Are Co-operatives Small?
Evidence from the World Co-operative Monitor
Part VI: National Case-Studies
19: Xabier Barandiaran and Javier Lezaun: The Mondragón
Experience
20: Daniel Tischer and John Hoffmire: Moving Toward 100% Employee
Ownership Through Esops: Added Complexities in Add-On
Transactions
21: Sara Depedri: Social Co-operatives In Italy
22: Markus Hanisch: Co-operatives and the Transformation of the
German Energy Sector
23: Michela Giovannini and Marcelo Vieta: Co-operatives in Latin
America
24: Lou Hammond Ketilson: Developing and Sustaining Communities:
The Role of Co-operatives
25: Joseph R Blasi and Douglas L Kruse: Shared Capitalism in the
US: Evaluation and Future Policies
26: Maurie J Cohen: Workers - and Consumers - of the World Unite!
Opportunities for Hybrid Co-operativism
27: Daphne Berry: The Worker Co-operative form in the Home Care
Industry in the US
28: Holger Blisse and Detlev Hummel: Raiffeisenbanks and Volksbanks
for Europe: The Case of Co-operative Banking in Germany
29: Corey Rosen: Statutory Employee Stock Ownership Plans in the
US
30: Andrew Pendleton and Andrew Robinson: Employee Ownership in
Britain Today
Part VII: Corporate and Sector Case-Studies
31: William Davies: Corporate Governance Beyond Neoliberalism:
Agency, Democracy, and Co-operation
32: Zahir Dossa: Co-operatives - A Development Strategy? An
Analysis of Argan Oil Co-operatives in Southwest Morocco
33: Alex Nicholls and Benjamin Huybrechts: Fair Trade and
Co-operatives
34: Ruth Yeoman: From Traditional to Innovative Multi-Stakeholder
Mutuals: The Case of Rochdale Boroughwide Housing
35: Franck Thomas: The Emergence of Multi-Stakeholder Co-operatives
In The Movement of Farm Machinery Co-operatives (CUMA's) in
France
36: Li Zhao: Agricultural Co-operatives in China
Part VIII: The Future of Co-operatives
37: Mark J Kaswan: US Worker Co-operatives
38: Antonio Fici: The Essential Role of Co-operative Law and Some
Related Issues
39: David T Llewellyn: Conversion from Stakeholder Value to
Shareholder Value Banks: The Case of UK Building Societies
40: Johnston Birchall: The Performance of Member-owned Businesses
Since the Financial Crisis of 2008
41: David Erdal: Creating Socially Sustainable Enterprise
42: Charles Gould: The Co-operative Business Model: The Shape of
things to Come
Jonathan Michie is Professor of Innovation and Knowledge Exchange
at the University of Oxford, where he is President of Kellogg
College, Director of the Department for Continuing Education, and
Director of the Oxford Centre for Mutual & Employee-owned Business.
Jonathan is a member of Defra's Economic Advisory Panel; Council
member and Chair of the Audit & Risk Management Committee for the
Academy of Social Sciences. From 2004-2008 Jonathan was
Director of Birmingham Business School. From 1997-2004 he held the
Sainsbury Chair of Management at Birkbeck, University of London
where he was Head of the School of Management & Organizational
Psychology. From 1992-1997
he was at the Judge Business School in Cambridge where he was also
a Fellow & Director of Studies in Economics at Robinson
College.
Joseph Blasi is the J. Robert Beyster Distinguished Professor at
Rutgers University's School of Management and Labor Relations in
New Brunswick, New Jersey and Director of the Institute for the
Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing at Rutgers. An
economic sociologist, Blasi studies the social history of the
corporation and corporate governance with a special emphasis on
organizations where rewards, power, and prestige are broadly
distributed, as in the case of employee share ownership
and profit sharing in business. Within the Institute, he also leads
a national competitive Fellowship Program that grants research
fellowships and gathers over a hundred research scholars in
academic
conferences on these subjects. He is co-author of The Citizen's
Share (Yale University Press, 2013) and a frequent policy advisor
on these issues. Carlo Borzaga is full Professor of Economic policy
at the University of Trento (Italy) and President of the European
Research Institute on Cooperatives and Social Enterprise (Euricse).
He also chairs the Master Programme in Management of Social
Enterprises at the University of Trento and is a founding member of
the EMES European Research network.
Prof. Borzaga sits on the scientific committee of numerous Italian
and European journals and is co-editor of the newly launched
international Journal of Entrepreneurial and Organizational
Diversity
(JEOD). He has authored and co-edited numerous books and papers on
labour economics and social and cooperative enterprises.
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