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How much do co-operatives pay their directors?

March 26, 2014
Rebecca Harvey

While it is hard to make broad comparisons on how businesses choose to remunerate their directors,…

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Governance and Management structures in worker co-operatives

July 29, 2012
Anthony Murray

The other day a consumer co-operative Board member asked if I could send them some info…

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Leading economist Noreena Hertz predicts era of co-operative capitalism

February 15, 2012
Anthony Murray

Economist, Professor Noreena Hertz, who for more than two decades has made accurate predictions about economic…

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What we could learn from French co-ops

January 18, 2012
John Atherton

Shame to see plans for SeaFrance to become a worker co-op have run aground.  This is…

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Non-member contracts expose cooperatives

March 11, 2011
Co-operative News

New Zealand cooperatives are creating a dangerous precedent when they offer contracts that allow non-members to…