The Routledge Handbook of Cooperative Economics and Management

Jerome Warren is Visiting Research Fellow at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt and Postdoctoral Researcher at the Seminar for Cooperative Studies Universität zu Köln. Lucio Biggiero is full professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering, Information and Economics, University of L’Aquila, Italy. Jamin Hübner is research professor at LCC International University, Klaipėda, Lithuania. Kemi Ogunyemi is full professor at Lagos Business School, Pan‑Atlantic University, Lagos, Nigeria.

Cooperative Economics & Management: An Introduction Part I: Theoretical Foundations 1. Relational Economics and Cooperative Organizations 2. The Formation and Performance of Labor-Managed Firms: An Economic Perspective 3. Cooperatives beyond Markets and Firms 4. Cooperatives and the Common Good 5. Beyond the Western-centred Paradigm in Cooperative Economics 6. Worker Cooperatives and Other Cooperatives 7. A Theory of the Integrated Collaborative Enterprise Part II: Methodology 8. A Framework for Shifting Away from Capital-focused Measures of Success 9. Cooperative Organizations as Complex Adaptive Systems 10. Reflections on the Measurement of Organizational Democracy: Conceptual, epistemological, and methodological aspects 11. Jerome Warren, Process-Oriented Research Methodologies and their Suitability for Analyzing Cooperative Enterprise 12. A Path Dependency Approach to Study Australia’s Cooperatives 13. The Cooperative Ethos in Knowledge Creation: How Anthropology Informs Cooperative Economics Part III: Management, Organization and Entrepreneurship 14. The governance of commons by social corporations: A theoretical governance model 15. Critical issues of co-operative governance in large co-operatives: Who eventually wields power? 16. Democratic Ownership: Scale Through Leverage 17. The Strategic Role of Cooperative Enterprise as Intermediary of Ambidexterity 18.Revisiting the ‘Spillover Thesis’ in Participatory Workplaces and Worker Cooperatives 19.Sortition and the Democratic Governance of Cooperatives 20.A Model of a Full Cooperative with Internal Currency: An approach to strengthening the cooperative economy 21.Non-financial cooperatives through the lens of finance: why should they differ from non-cooperatives? Part IV: Innovation 22. Coopetition in financial cooperative meta-organizations 23. Pegasus Enterprise: An Innovative Form of Cooperative for an Alternative Model of Entrepreneurship 24. Leadership for cooperatives’ digital transitions: From an individualistic to a collectivistic perspective 25. Platform cooperatives, a model of commons and sustainability 26. On the Foundations of Open Cooperativism 27. Cooperative Online Communities 28. Linking Cooperatives and Social Innovation: Bonds for Transforming Societies 29. Relational, Ecological Cooperation With and As Part of More-than-Human World(s) Part V: Sustainability 30. Why a Green and Resilient Future Must be a Cooperative Future 31. Social Economy and Environmental Protection: How to Improve Understanding 32. Economy for the Common Good - a cooperative and sustainable approach to the economy 33. Are Worker Cooperatives Green? Some Reflections in Terms of Governance 34. Sustainability in Mondragon Worker Cooperatives: The Challenge of Implementation 35. Contributions of Cooperatives to the Challenges of the Circular Economy and the Product Service Systems in a Context of Environmental Transition 36. Project-based Cooperatives as a Means for Civic Engagement to Achieve Sustainable Development Goals