Financial cooperatives play an important role in the financial systems of many countries.
They act as a safe haven for deposits and are major sources of credit for households and …

Economics is the mother tongue of public policy. It dominates our decision-making for the
future, guides multi-billion-dollar investments, and shapes our responses to climate change …

Simples, ambicioso e revolucionário, um modelo econômico original e ousado para
responder aos desafios do século XXI Crise financeira permanente. Desigualdade extrema …

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 …

Multiple roles and objectives are naturally inherent in the co-op idea, captured by the
Statement on the Co-operative Identity (ICA, 1995) and thus in co-operative enterprises' …

Recent years have witnessed a re-emergence of business rescues and buyouts of failing
firms or of firms with succession issues to cooperatives. In our current times of lingering …

The cooperative organizational form is by nature a sustainable one, which has proved to be
resilient in the face of crises and a solid lever in addressing present-day societal challenges …

Is greater stakeholder engagement associated with greater stability? We provide readers
with novel empirical evidence that this is indeed the case. Cooperative banks (where …

Microfinance began as the disbursement of tiny loans to the poor, which they could use to
undertake informal income-generating activities. It went on to become one of the most …

Prevailing models of organisation divide people into owners, managers and employees,
forcing especially the latter to obey, to behave, and to function well within a hierarchical and …