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The added value of cooperation
Authors: Van Dijk, Gert
Sergaki, Panagiota
Baourakis, George
Papaioannou, Evgenia (Tr.)
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Abstract:
The cooperative was characterized in the first chapter as an alliance designed to achieve certain objectives for the participants - the individual cooperators - within the context of (free) markets. The added value of the cooperative comes from producing benefits for member cooperators that wouldn’t be available to the members working alone. This applies only to those cooperatives that have business or economic objectives. Social service cooperatives in some countries are formed for various reasons other than economic gain and may not be completely applicable to the issues discussed here. But within the focus of this book, the business cooperative bears a special burden of always needing to be entrepreneurial on two levels: it must be entrepreneurial in its own right and it must add value to its members by assisting them to become more entrepreneurial individually, or independently.
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/11419/14163
Bibliographic Reference: Van Dijk, G., Sergaki, P., Baourakis, G., & Papaioannou, E. (Tr.). (2024). The added value of cooperation [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/11419/14163
Language: Greek
Is Part of: The Cooperative Enterprise
Publication Origin: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions