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Coping with the invisible hand |
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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.
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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 |