Blockchain technologies are reconfiguring the global economy, though often in contradictory
ways. Blockchain technologies are disrupting key economic and financial sectors. Some …

Cooperatives serve a competitive yardstick role in markets dominated by market power such
as monopsony or monopoly. This paper argues they can also serve a normative yardstick …

Technological innovation has become a major source of farmer co-operatives' competitive
advantage, however empirical research on co-operatives innovation in a developing country …

Universities in the UK are increasingly adopting corporate governance structures, a
consumerist model of teaching and learning, and have the most expensive tuition fees in the …

Cooperative enterprises have been in existence in all fields of economic activity for around
200 years, but they have tended to bunch in some sectors. This paper will examine which …

Work organizations are commonly studied as sites that produce and reproduce inequality.
But we know much less about how organizations promote equality. This article examines …

Abstract Alternative Food Network (AFN) is a broad term encompassing many initiatives
connected by the aim to build an alternative to globalized industrial food production and …

Canada is known for being an energy-producing nation–with much attention being paid to
the Alberta tar sands and their large carbon footprint. This book looks at a very different part …

In contemporary discourse, cooperatives are often considered as vehicles for post-capitalist
social transformation. However, theorists affiliated with the first, second, and third …

Examines the political significance of ideas about happiness through the work of utilitarian
philosophers William Thompson and Jeremy Bentham. Happiness is political. The way we …