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Title Details:
The Cooperative Enterprise
Other Titles: Practical Evidence for a Theory of Cooperative Entrepreneurship
Authors: Van Dijk, Gert
Sergaki, Panagiota
Baourakis, George
Papaioannou, Evgenia (Tr.)
Subject: NATURAL SCIENCES AND AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES > AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES > RURAL AND AGRICULTURAL SOCIOLOGY
LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > ECONOMIC SCIENCES > MICROECONOMICS > ANALYSIS OF COLLECTIVE DECISION-MAKING
LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > ECONOMIC SCIENCES > AGRICULTURAL AND NATURAL RESOURCE ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS > AGRICULTURE > AGRICULTURE FINANCE
LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > ECONOMIC SCIENCES > AGRICULTURAL AND NATURAL RESOURCE ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS > AGRICULTURE > AGRICULTURAL MARKETS AND MARKETING; COOPERATIVES; AGRIBUSINESS
LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > SOCIOLOGY > GROUP INTERACTIONS
LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > SOCIOLOGY > COMPLEX ORGANIZATIONS
LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > SOCIOLOGY > COMPLEX ORGANIZATIONS > SOCIOLOGY OF BUSINESS AND ENTREPRENEURISM
LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > SOCIOLOGY > MASS PHENOMENA > COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOUR
Keywords:
Agricultural Cooperatives
Collective Actions
Performance
Entrepreneurship
Institutional Economics
Behavioral Economics
Transaction Cost
Social Capital
Description:
Abstract:
The authors of “The Cooperative Enterprise” have succeeded in collecting and developing the most relevant and modern knowledge of the sector to the interested reader. The text provides a good academic analysis of the relevant theories, but importantly it celebrates the rich practical experiences of the cooperative world. We are well treated with a wide range of illustrations of the recent cooperative business evolutions with a professional insight and analysis of the decision-making. A virgin mind would enjoy a rare view of the cooperative business management, while more experienced individuals could be shown the cooperative logic behind the scene. The authors celebrate cooperative market orientation, individual commitment and responsibility as well as a dynamic approach to the future development of the sector. Hopefully, this would enable us to bring in those young, talented and professional people that we so much need in the farming sector. Furthermore, developing a training simulation game for farming businesses underlines the importance of this new approach in communicating our cooperative ideas. Involving the African farming community gives us Europeans a new perspective to issues where we have been too complacent. A word of warning: “The Cooperative Enterprise” will make you think in a cooperative way. And it is fun to read!
Linguistic Editors: Lampidis, Manos
Graphic Editors: Tsionis, Ilias
Type: Postgraduate textbook
Creation Date: 01-07-2024
Item Details:
ISBN 978-618-228-266-3
License: Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-1010
Handle http://hdl.handle.net/11419/13672
Bibliographic Reference: Van Dijk, G., Sergaki, P., Baourakis, G., & Papaioannou, E. (Tr.). (2024). The Cooperative Enterprise [Postgraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-1010
Language: Greek
Consists of:
1. Coping with the invisible hand
2. The added value of cooperation
3. Cooperation with the weighing of interests
4. Twin goals and two communities: a behavioural approach
5. A multifaceted relationship
6. When members fail- The case of Rabobank, the Netherlands
7. Cooperatives in economic literature - Capita Selecta
8. Lessons learnt
9. Concluding remarks
Number of pages 218
Publication Origin: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions
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