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The Conversion of Cooperatives to Publicly Held Corporations - jstor

Recent reorganizations of agricultural cooperatives have created concern that the cooperative form of business may not be well suited to the agribusiness ...

Co-ops vs Firms: Different Sides of the Same Market Coin

An empirical study by Stanford economists found just this, concluding “[c]o-ops had 14% lower wages than capitalist enterprises, on average; ...

The Rhode Island Worker Cooperative Alliance launches

We don't have a shopfront or anything - yet. As some people have already said, starting a business is hard. Starting a worker cooperative is ...

Canada's small businesses could be saved by converting them to co ...

The co-operative business model needs to be seriously considered and nurtured as a viable response to closing companies and lost jobs as a ...

Worker Cooperatives Are More Productive Than Normal Companies

On balance, Perotin concludes, “worker cooperatives are more productive than conventional businesses, with staff working 'better and smarter' ...

Cooperative Benefits and Limitations - USDA Rural Development

In small towns, the cooperative often is the major or only business. ... Many cooperatives have been leaders in searching for better varieties and ...

We the People: Cooperative Ownership for the 21st Century - Bioneers

I've mostly personally been involved with worker-owned cooperatives, and to some degree also with ESOPS, Employee Stock Ownership Plan Companies ...

let's build a cooperative, step 4: design your decision-making process

Isthmus Engineering is a worker cooperative based in Wisconsin. In a case study I read, one worker there talked about what they love: “The lack ...

More U.S. businesses are becoming worker co-ops: Here's why

A study from Rutgers found that converting to employee ownership boosts profits by as much as 14%, and doing so does not come at a detriment to ...

Frequently Asked Worker-Owned Cooperative Questions - MNCEO

Others completely sell the business to the cooperative. The co-op transition process is flexible in terms of timeline and conditions. The ...

Cooperative - Wikipedia

Cooperatives have been traditionally seen as an alternative to the traditional business model, in which a capitalist has the private ownership of the monetary ...

Co-operatives, Work, and the Digital Economy

Schwettmann (2020) cau- tions, however, that “cooperatives are not 'better' just because of their name or ... el, stated: “When I started my business, I went ...

Investing in Enterprises That Work for Everyone

... Cooperatives is a cooperative holding company in Cleveland. The ... Instead, converting these businesses to AOEs creates a twofold ...

Want to start a worker cooperative? Check out these 5 resources.

The fascinating and powerful thing about this is that worker-owned cooperatives aren't just far off theories about how we can implement change ...

Could Co-Ops Solve Income Inequality? - Craftsmanship Magazine

The story underscores one of the arguments in this article: that co-ops might be the most effective business model for coping with economic crises. I 'm driving ...

Public Policy & Advocacy - U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives

... better loan access to employee owned businesses. The USFWC is proud to have ... have helped bring about this first ever federal level legislation that features ...

Carolina Common Enterprise: Start a co-op and co-op conversions

Whether you want to start a co-op or convert an existing business into a cooperative enterprise, let us guide you through the process. We'll work with you to ...

Cooperatives and the Sustainable Development Goals

yet cooperatives themselves have only recently become active. Consequently ... leading to many pharmacies going out of business, rising prices, and counterfeit ...

Social Transformation - International Cooperative Alliance | ICA

... Cooperative Identity versus the ideology that cooperation is purely “better business. ... Cooperative Movement and beyond often have “less to lose” simply ...

Can a company be both a consumer and a worker cooperative?

All consumer cooperatives that I know of have open membership, so the workers have the same amount of say over things as all the other members.