Cooperatives and social capital: A narrative literature review and directions for future research

I Saz-Gil, I Bretos, M Díaz-Foncea - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
How cooperatives generate and absorb social capital has attracted a great deal of attention
due to the fact that they are collective organizations owned and democratically managed by …

Rediscovering the cooperative enterprise: A systematic review of current topics and avenues for future research

AF Camargo Benavides, M Ehrenhard - VOLUNTAS: International Journal …, 2021 - Springer
For decades, the cooperative enterprise (CE) produces market goods and/or provides
services in the interest to its members, such as communities, customers, and suppliers. The …

Analysing the links between cooperative principles, entrepreneurial orientation and performance

C Guzmán, FJ Santos, MO Barroso - Small Business Economics, 2020 - Springer
Cooperatives are enterprises characterised by certain principles, such as cooperation,
democratic decision-making, and training that define their entrepreneurial behaviours …

Motivational drivers to choose worker cooperatives as an entrepreneurial alternative: evidence from Spain

M Bastida, A Vaquero Garcia, LH Pinto… - Small Business …, 2022 - Springer
Worker cooperatives as an entrepreneurial activity that values collective benefits have
raised increasing interest in recent years. This prioritisation clearly distinguishes this …

Female entrepreneurship: Can cooperatives contribute to overcoming the gender gap? A Spanish first step to equality

M Bastida, LH Pinto, A Olveira Blanco, M Cancelo - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
To date, entrepreneurship research has rarely focused on cooperatives. Recent research
has suggested there is a positive association between cooperatives and women's …

Cooperativas e internacionalización: Un análisis de las 300 mayores cooperativas del mundo

I Bretos, M Díaz-Foncea, C Marcuello - 2018 - zaguan.unizar.es
Este artículo aborda un debate clave en el ámbito de la economía social donde la
investigación previa es extremadamente limitada: la internacionalización de las …

Cooperativas, capital social y emprendimiento: Una perspectiva teórica

IB Fernández, MD Foncea, CM Servós… - REVESCO: revista de …, 2018 - dialnet.unirioja.es
Este artículo analiza, desde una perspectiva teórica, la relación entre capital social y
cooperativas atendiendo a un doble enfoque. Por un lado, se aborda la capacidad de las …

Entrepreneurship and innovation in worker cooperatives and conventional firms: the role of external cooperation

FJ Santos, C Guzmán, L Valiente - Small Business Economics, 2024 - Springer
Through the comparison of conventional firms (CFs) with worker cooperatives (WCs), which
are a type of collective enterprise with significant experience in cooperation, this research …

Cooperative essence and entrepreneurial quality: A comparative contextual analysis

C Guzman, FJ Santos… - Annals of Public and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This article links two different fields of research, entrepreneurship and cooperatives, and
studies whether, depending on the context, differences in terms of the fulfilment of the …

What are the determinants affecting cooperatives' profitability? Evidence from Spain

M Sala‐Ríos - Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This study focuses on the analysis of the determinants of Spanish cooperatives' profitability.
We inspect several variables, whose influence on firms' profitability has been verified by …