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Coping with the invisible hand
Authors: Van Dijk, Gert
Sergaki, Panagiota
Baourakis, George
Papaioannou, Evgenia (Tr.)
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Abstract:
The cooperative is operating in a market (or free market) environment. The cooperative is both an alliance and a corporate vehicle that offers the individual participants greater opportunities in that market. They can achieve more as co-operators than working as individuals. In short, cooperation is a form of economic organization for when the market fails. We take the position, that in many cases, businesses are not fit to beneficially participate in the global market business without cooperating and reorganizing. Their partners may be colleagues, even competitors, or other stakeholders in their supply chain or region. They cooperate as their market will fail from their perspective. Cooperatives, societies, communities and other forms of groups exist because it is necessary to create a buffer or countervailing power that assists to cope with the undesired effects of global market developments – undesired of course as seen by the members of those coops and communities.
Linguistic Editors: Lampidis, Manos
Graphic Editors: Tsionis, Ilias
Type: Chapter
Creation Date: 10-11-2024
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License: Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Handle http://hdl.handle.net/11419/14162
Bibliographic Reference: Van Dijk, G., Sergaki, P., Baourakis, G., & Papaioannou, E. (Tr.). (2024). Coping with the invisible hand [Chapter]. In Van Dijk, G., Sergaki, P., Baourakis, G., & Papaioannou, E. (Tr.) 2024. The Cooperative Enterprise [Postgraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://hdl.handle.net/11419/14162
Language: Greek
Is Part of: The Cooperative Enterprise
Publication Origin: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions