Piero Ammirato

The Growth of Italian Cooperatives

Innovation, Resilience and Social Responsibility

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Growth of Italian Cooperatives: Innovation, Resilience and Social Responsibility comprehensively explains how the Italian cooperative sector has managed to compete in the market and grow even during the global financial crisis. This volume sets out to explain how cooperatives have managed to compete in a socially responsible way and in alignment with cooperative principles.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9781138067219
• ISBN-10: 1138067210
• Artikelnr.: 52459947

Autorenporträt

Dr Piero Ammirato is an Honorary Fellow, Politics and Public Policy, at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
1. Introduction
2. The Cooperative legislative framework: enabling growth and
promoting cooperative principles
3. Central Associations: leadership and economic development
4. Financing cooperatives: members, markets and networks
5. Consortia network: economies of scale and national expansion
6. From large cooperatives to cooperative groups: a new cooperative
model?
7. Entrepreneurship: start-ups, worker-buyouts and social cooperatives
8. Cooperative resilience: managing the global financial crisis
9. Cooperative principles and social responsibility: people and
communities
before profits
10. Cooperative identity: in search of a new vision
11. Conclusion: toward a more pluralist and democratic market economy