Cooperative Enterprises in Australia and Italy

Publication date: 19 June 2019
Research areas: Economic theory
Publication categories: Books
Arguments: Theory and definitions
Organizational types: Credit cooperatives, Worker cooperatives, Consumer cooperatives
Tags: cooperatives

Edited by: Anthony Jensen, Greg Patmore, Ermanno C. Tortia

This book arises from a three-year comparative research program concerning co-operative enterprises in Australia and Italy. The book explores the historical development, legal framework and the peak organisations of co-operatives in the two countries. Specific comparative chapters focus on consumer, credit, and worker-producer co-operatives. The book deepens the analysis of co-operatives by containing chapters that examine specific theoretical and empirical issues such as the theory of co-operative firms as collective entrepreneurial action. Monographic chapters include more in depth analysis of specific typologies of co-operatives, such as social and community oriented co-operatives, some of which were created to contrast organized crime in Southern Italy. The book concludes with an assessment of the implications of the project for public policy.

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