The international co-operative movement has seen a series of catastrophic failures of large scale co-operatives in…
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The National Cooperative Bank (NCB) in America has released its annual NCB Co-op 100 list. The…
Member economic participation: turning co-operative supporters into co-operative investors
The path to member economic participation, one of the core co-operative principles, never did run smooth.…
The Marcora Law: an effective tool of active employment policy
Camillo De Berardinis, managing director of CFI, (Cooperazione Finanza Impresa – Cooperation Finance Enterprise), looks at how the Marcora…
What lessons can the UK learn from Germany’s co-operative banking sector?
Co-operative banks make up about two thirds of all German retail banks, and have a broad…
Is there an ideal size for a co-op business?
The co-operative brand and model of doing business has taken a bashing in the public and…
Co-operatives make for a happy place to work
Co-operatives are businesses run by the people, for the people; so it makes sense that all…
Global corruption: a problem for cooperatives?
The 2012 International Summit of Cooperatives is proud to welcome several prominent international organizations actively involved…
Two European countries that have a strong cooperative presence: France and Italy
In this third article in a series about the global cooperative movement, we take a look…
Governance and Management structures in worker co-operatives
The other day a consumer co-operative Board member asked if I could send them some info…
What we could learn from French co-ops
Shame to see plans for SeaFrance to become a worker co-op have run aground. This is…