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A multifaceted relationship
Authors: Van Dijk, Gert
Sergaki, Panagiota
Baourakis, George
Papaioannou, Evgenia (Tr.)
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Abstract:
A cooperative enterprise, as we have seen, must operate in the same free market as other firms with different ownership structures. The cooperators cannot withdraw from the market, but will try to improve their position in the market by putting the communal cooperative enterprise between themselves and the market. This creates an “internal market” between the cooperative enterprise and the members’ businesses, or the primary enterprise. The primary enterprise of the cooperative will either be purchasing or sales if the members formed the cooperative to provide those services. At the same time, purchasing or sales are not the primary enterprise of the members. Hence, an internal market develops. The internal market is, by nature, a market of negotiation or a market of agreements. A forum is created for the various interests of the members and the cooperative itself in which the various interests must be weighed against each other. The member users of the forum can bring influence to bear on that forum. Meanwhile, the cooperative enterprise is there for all members and belongs to them. This chapter will look at the relationships between members and their cooperative that emerges with the internal market.
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/11419/14170
Bibliographic Reference: Van Dijk, G., Sergaki, P., Baourakis, G., & Papaioannou, E. (Tr.). (2024). A multifaceted relationship [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/11419/14170
Language: Greek
Is Part of: The Cooperative Enterprise
Publication Origin: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions