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Using Cooperation Science to Strengthen Maine’s Local Food Economy
- EconomicsMaine Policy Review
- 2019
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Rethinking local business clusters: the case of food clusters for promoting community development
- Economics
- 2010
The business cluster concept is perhaps the most popular paradigm for studying and promoting local and regional economic development. While the business cluster literature acknowledges the existence…
Cooperatives, Worker-Owned Enterprises, Productivity and the International Labor Organization
- Economics, Business
- 2006
A survey of empirical research on productivity in worker-owned enterprises and cooperatives finds a substantial literature that largely supports the proposition that worker-owned enterprises equal or…
The Citizen's Share: Putting Ownership Back into Democracy
- Economics, History
- 2013
The idea of workers owning the businesses where they work is not new. In America's early years, Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison believed that the best economic plan for the Republic was for…
Catching a wave: the formation of co-operatives in Finnish regions
- Economics
- 2013
This paper compares the formation rates of co-operatives and conventional firms in Finland using regional data. The Finnish co-operative “wave” that began in the mid-1990s provides a useful setting…
Governing the firm : workers' control in theory and practice
- Economics
- 2003
1. Introduction: 1.1 Economic systems 1.2 The control dimension 1.3 Looking for clues 1.4 A projected synthesis 1.5 The plan of the book 2. Normative perspectives: 2.1 Why care about workers'…
Humanizing the Economy: Co-operatives in the Age of Capital
- Education
- 2010
By reading, you can know the knowledge and things more, not only about what you get from people to people. Book will be more trusted. As this humanizing the economy co operatives in the age of…