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Group Behaviour and DevelopmentA very large amount of activity occurs within groups (that is within families, firms, co-operatives, conununities or governments). Yet most economic analysis focuses on market transactions between these agents. The purpose of the study is to analyse...
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Group-Oriented Values, Rules and CooperationThis paper uses a game-theoretic framework to explain how collectivist values hamper societies’ efforts to elicit cooperation in inter-group games of prisoners’ dilemma (PD) and draws on the results of the analysis to interpret the meanings of three...
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Blooming Together or Wilting Alone?This paper examines strategies developed by Mondragón Co-operative Corporation in the Basque Region of Spain, and La Lega co-operative network in Italy, to mitigate disadvantages of the typical co-operative organizational structure and market...
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Economics of China's Joint-Stock Co-OperativesIn the 1990s, a new ownership form called ‘joint-stock co-operative’ (gufen hezuozhi) became widely adopted in China’s township and village enterprise sector. The promising dynamics and high adaptive ability of the new ownership form is in...
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An Endogenous Group Formation Theory of Co-operative NetworksThis paper develops a theory of endogenous league formation and considers its implications for policy in developing countries. We generalize from features of the two most prominent European co-op leagues, Mondragón and La Lega, to develop the first...
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Credit Co-operatives in Locally Financed Economic DevelopmentIn most transitional and many developing countries institutions capable of supporting economic development with localized saving-investment cycles have not developed. This crucial gap is in no way addressed by either country-level macro programmes...
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Credit Co-operatives in Locally-Financed Economic DevelopmentPart of Book Advancing Development
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Network Externalities and Cooperative NetworksPart of Book Ownership and Governance of Enterprises
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Network Externalities and Cooperative NetworksPart of Book Ownership and Governance of Enterprises
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Evolving and Functioning Mechanisms of Employee Stock Ownership in China's Township and Village EnterprisesPart of Book Ownership and Governance of Enterprises
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Group Behaviour and DevelopmentThis text focuses on group behaviour in developing countries. It includes studies of producer and community organizations, NGOs and some public sector groups. Some groups function well, from the perspectives of equity, efficiency and well-being...
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Group Behaviour and DevelopmentThis text focuses on group behaviour in developing countries. It includes studies of producer and community organizations, NGOs and some public sector groups. Some groups function well, from the perspectives of equity, efficiency and well-being...
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