Includes bibliographical references and index.

The importance of ownership / Jonathan Michie -- Credit unions and co-operative banks across the world / Silvio Goglio, Panu Kalmi -- Agricultural co-operatives: a struggle for identity / Samira Nuhanovic-Ribic, Ermanno C. Tortia, Vladislav Valentinov -- Social and solidarity co-operatives: an international perspective / Giulia Galera -- Community co-operatives and co-operatives providing public services: facts and prospects / Pier Angelo Mori -- How to think about global employee ownership / Loren Rodgers -- Evidence: What the US research shows about worker ownership / Joseph R. Blasi, Richard B. Freeman, Douglas L. Kruse -- Enterprise form, participation and performance in mutuals and co-operatives / Zoe Adams, Simon Deakin -- Governance and organisational challenges / Peter Couchman -- Are co-operatives small? Evidence from the World Co-operative Monitor / Chiara Carini, Maurizio Carpita -- The Mondragâon experience / Xabier Barandiaran, Javier Lezaun -- Entrepreneurial pluralism / Giovanni Ferri, Angelo Leogrande -- Moving toward 100% employee ownership through ESOPs: added complexities in add-on transactions / Daniel Tischer, John Hoffmire -- Social co-operatives in Italy / Sara Depedri -- Co-operatives and the transformation of the German energy sector / Markus Hanisch -- Co-operatives in Latin America / Michela Giovannini, Marcelo Vieta -- Developing and sustaining communities: the role of co-operatives / Lou Hammond Ketilson -- Shared capitalism in the U.S.: evaluation and future policies / Joseph R. Blasi, Richard B. Freeman, Douglas L. Kruse -- Workers - and consumers - of the World unite! Opportunities for hybrid co- operativism / Maurie J. Cohen -- The worker co-operative form in the home care industry in the US / Daphne Berry -- Raiffeisenbanks and Volksbanks for Europe - the case of co-operative banking in Germany / Holger Blisse, Detlev Hummel -- Statutory employee stock ownership plans in the US / Corey Rosen -- Liberal philosophies of ownership / Stuart White -- Employee ownership in Britain today / Andrew Pendleton, Andrew Robinson -- Corporate governance beyond neoliberalism: agency, democracy and co-operation / William Davies -- Co-operatives - a development strategy? An analysis of Argan oil co-operatives in southwest Morocco / Zahir Dossa -- Fair Trade and co-operatives / Alex Nicholls, Benjamin Huybrechts -- From traditional to innovative multi-stakeholder mutuals: the case of Rochdale Boroughwide Housing / Ruth Yeoman -- The emergence of multi-stakeholder co-operatives in the movement of Farm Machinery Co-operatives (CUMA's) in France / Franck Thomas -- Agricultural co-operatives in China / Li Zhao -- US worker co-operatives / Mark J. Kaswan -- The essential role of co-operative law and some related issues / Antonio Fici -- Conversion from stakeholder value to shareholder value banks: the case of UK building societies / David T. Llewellyn -- Co-operative Principles and Co-operative law across the globe / Hagen Henrèy -- The performance of member-owned businesses since the financial crisis of 2008 / Johnston Birchall -- Creating socially sustainable enterprise / David Erdal -- The co-operative business model: the shape of things to come / Charles Gould -- Co-operation as co-ordination mechanism: a new approach to the economics of co-operative enterprises / Carlo Borzaga, Ermanno C. Tortia -- The social and political dimensions of co-operative enterprises / Victor A. Pestoff -- A world-historical worldwide perspective on co-operatives and their evolution / Vera Zamagni -- An American historical perspective on employee ownership / Joseph R. Blasi, Douglas L. Kruse -- Worker co-operatives: good, sustainable jobs in the community / Virginie Pâerotin.

This handbook investigates 'member-owned' organizations, whether consumer co-operatives, agricultural and producer co-operatives, worker co-operatives, mutual building societies, friendly societies, credit unions, solidarity organizations, mutual insurance companies, or employee-owned companies. Such organizations can be owned by the consumers, producers, or employees-whether through single-stakeholder or multi-stakeholder ownership. 'Employee-owned' business means businesses where a significant proportion of the company is owned by its employees, whether as individual shareholders or through a trust, or some combination of the two; 'significant' is generally taken as at least 25 per cent. This complex set of organizations is named differently across countries: from 'mutuals' in the United Kingdom, to 'solidarity co-operatives' in Latin America.

Specialized.

Description based on print version record.