The Routledge Handbook of Cooperative Economics and Management
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 22. June 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
530 pages
978-1-032-58387-7 (ISBN)
Description
Cooperatives have spread across virtually all continents. Today, the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) recognises over 3 million cooperatives with 1 billion cooperative members or about 12% of the human population and serving many more members of the public, collectively owning trillions in assets. This handbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the subject and the current state of affairs with regard to the study of cooperation in the economy generally and of the cooperative and related sectors particularly.
It highlights the essential issues and debates; provides a future research agenda, outlining the distinctions and similarities between individual and (inter)organisational cooperation; and explores the connections of cooperative economics and management to fundamental ethical principles. This book examines coopetition and the similarities and differences between competitive economics and cooperative economics, identifying to what extent and how cooperative economics and management are more capable of addressing the problems of global neoliberalism, such as ecological collapse, wealth inequity, value capture, and distribution, including via online platforms and social/relational problems.
This book offers a variety of new research and theory-building from various disciplines, particularly focusing on the fields of economics and management but extending beyond these disciplines to domains such as sociology, psychology, anthropology, and political science. It will become the standard reference work for not only a broad and large audience of scholars, researchers, and students but also interested professionals, policymakers, regulators, and cooperators in the field wishing to orient themselves in a global, rapidly developing movement and field of study with reference to issues of producing and allocating resources and focusing on the impact of cooperation on issues like risk, trust, the development of preferences, institutional governance, networks, and inequity.
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
The handbook has received an Honorable Mention for the Joyce Rothschild book prize.
It highlights the essential issues and debates; provides a future research agenda, outlining the distinctions and similarities between individual and (inter)organisational cooperation; and explores the connections of cooperative economics and management to fundamental ethical principles. This book examines coopetition and the similarities and differences between competitive economics and cooperative economics, identifying to what extent and how cooperative economics and management are more capable of addressing the problems of global neoliberalism, such as ecological collapse, wealth inequity, value capture, and distribution, including via online platforms and social/relational problems.
This book offers a variety of new research and theory-building from various disciplines, particularly focusing on the fields of economics and management but extending beyond these disciplines to domains such as sociology, psychology, anthropology, and political science. It will become the standard reference work for not only a broad and large audience of scholars, researchers, and students but also interested professionals, policymakers, regulators, and cooperators in the field wishing to orient themselves in a global, rapidly developing movement and field of study with reference to issues of producing and allocating resources and focusing on the impact of cooperation on issues like risk, trust, the development of preferences, institutional governance, networks, and inequity.
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
The handbook has received an Honorable Mention for the Joyce Rothschild book prize.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Postgraduate and Professional Reference
Illustrations
40 s/w Zeichnungen, 16 s/w Tabellen, 40 s/w Abbildungen
16 Tables, black and white; 40 Line drawings, black and white; 40 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 174 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
1030 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-58387-7 (9781032583877)
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Jerome Nikolai Warren | Lucio Biggiero | Jamin Huebner
The Routledge Handbook of Cooperative Economics and Management
E-Book
12/2024
1st Edition
Routledge
€57.99
Available for download
Persons
Jerome Warren is Visiting Research Fellow at Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt and Postdoctoral Researcher at the Seminar for Cooperative Studies Universitaet zu Koeln.
Lucio Biggiero is full professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering, Information and Economics, University of L'Aquila, Italy.
Jamin Huebner is research professor at LCC International University, Klaipeda, Lithuania.
Kemi Ogunyemi is full professor at Lagos Business School, Pan-Atlantic University, Lagos, Nigeria.
Lucio Biggiero is full professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering, Information and Economics, University of L'Aquila, Italy.
Jamin Huebner is research professor at LCC International University, Klaipeda, Lithuania.
Kemi Ogunyemi is full professor at Lagos Business School, Pan-Atlantic University, Lagos, Nigeria.
Content
List of figures. List of tables. Acknowledgements. List of contributors. Cooperative economics and management: an introduction. SECTION I Theoretical foundations. 1 Relational economics and cooperative organizations. 2 The formation and performance of labor-managed firms: an economic perspective. 3 Cooperatives beyond markets and firms. 4 Cooperatives and the common good. 5 Beyond the Western-centred paradigm in cooperative economics. 6 Worker cooperatives and other "cooperatives". 7 A theory of the integrated collaborative enterprise. SECTION II Methodology. 8 A framework for shifting away from capital-focused measures of success. 9 Cooperative organizations as complex adaptive systems. 10 Reflections on the measurement of organizational democracy: conceptual, epistemological, and methodological aspects. 11 Process-oriented research methodologies and their suitability for analyzing cooperative enterprise. 12 A path dependence approach to study Australian cooperatives. 13 The cooperative ethos in knowledge creation: how anthropology informs cooperative economics. SECTION III Management, organization and entrepreneurship. 14 The governance of commons by social corporations: a theoretical governance model. 15 Critical issues of co-operative governance in large co-operatives: who eventually wields power?. 16 Democratic ownership: scale through leveraged conversions. 17 The strategic role of cooperative enterprise as an intermediary of ambidexterity. 18 Revisiting the 'spillover thesis' in participatory workplaces and worker cooperatives. 19 Sortition and the democratic governance of cooperatives. 20 A model of a full cooperative with internal currency: an approach to strengthening the cooperative economy. 21 Non-financial cooperatives through the lens of finance: why should they differ from non-cooperatives? SECTION IV Innovation. 22 Coopetition in financial cooperative meta-organizations. 23 Pegasus enterprise: an innovative form of cooperative for an alternative model of entrepreneurship. 24 Leadership for cooperatives' digital transitions: from an individualistic to a collectivistic perspective. 25 Platform cooperatives, a model of commons and sustainability. 26 On the foundations of open cooperativism. 27 Cooperative online communities. 28 Linking cooperatives and social innovation: bonds for transforming societies. 29 Relational, ecological cooperation with and as part of more-than-human world(s). SECTION V Sustainability. 30 Why a green and resilient future must be a cooperative future. 31 Social economy and environmental protection: how to improve understanding. 32 Economy for the common good: a cooperative and sustainable approach to the economy. 33 Are worker cooperatives green? Some reflections in terms of governance. 34 Sustainability in Mondragon worker cooperatives: the challenge of implementation. 35 Contributions of cooperatives to the challenges of the circular economy and product-service systems in the context of environmental transition. 36 Project-based cooperatives as a means for civic engagement to achieve sustainable development goals. Index.