Routledge Handbook of Cooperative Economics and Management

Jerome Warren is Visiting Research Fellow at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt and Postdoctoral Researcher at the Seminar for Cooperative Studies Universität zu Köln.Lucio Biggiero is full professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering, Information and Economics, University of L’Aquila, Italy.Jamin Hübner is research professor at LCC International University, Klaipėda, Lithuania.Kemi Ogunyemi is full professor at Lagos Business School, Pan‑Atlantic University, Lagos, Nigeria.

• List of figures. List of tables. Acknowledgements. List of contributors. Cooperative economics and management: an introduction. SECTION I Theoretical foundations. 1 Relational economics and cooperative organizations. 2 The formation and performance of labor‑managed firms: an economic perspective. 3 Cooperatives beyond markets and firms. 4 Cooperatives and the common good. 5 Beyond the Western‑centred paradigm in cooperative economics. 6 Worker cooperatives and other "cooperatives". 7 A theory of the integrated collaborative enterprise. SECTION II Methodology. 8 A framework for shifting away from capital‑focused measures of success. 9 Cooperative organizations as complex adaptive systems. 10 Reflections on the measurement of organizational democracy: conceptual, epistemological, and methodological aspects. 11 Process‑oriented research methodologies and their suitability for analyzing cooperative enterprise. 12 A path dependence approach to study Australian cooperatives. 13 The cooperative ethos in knowledge creation: how anthropology informs cooperative economics. SECTION III Management, organization and entrepreneurship. 14 The governance of commons by social corporations: a theoretical governance model. 15 Critical issues of co‑operative governance in large co‑operatives: who eventually wields power?. 16 Democratic ownership: scale through leveraged conversions. 17 The strategic role of cooperative enterprise as an intermediary of ambidexterity. 18 Revisiting the ‘spillover thesis’ in participatory workplaces and worker cooperatives. 19 Sortition and the democratic governance of cooperatives. 20 A model of a full cooperative with internal currency: an approach to strengthening the cooperative economy. 21 Non‑financial cooperatives through the lens of finance: why should they differ from non‑cooperatives? SECTION IV Innovation. 22 Coopetition in financial cooperative meta‑organizations. 23 Pegasus enterprise: an innovative form of cooperative for an alternative model of entrepreneurship. 24 Leadership for cooperatives’ digital transitions: from an individualistic to a collectivistic perspective. 25 Platform cooperatives, a model of commons and sustainability. 26 On the foundations of open cooperativism. 27 Cooperative online communities. 28 Linking cooperatives and social innovation: bonds for transforming societies. 29 Relational, ecological cooperation with and as part of more‑than‑human world(s). SECTION V Sustainability. 30 Why a green and resilient future must be a cooperative future. 31 Social economy and environmental protection: how to improve understanding. 32 Economy for the common good: a cooperative and sustainable approach to the economy. 33 Are worker cooperatives green? Some reflections in terms of governance. 34 Sustainability in Mondragon worker cooperatives: the challenge of implementation. 35 Contributions of cooperatives to the challenges of the circular economy and product‑service systems in the context of environmental transition. 36 Project‑based cooperatives as a means for civic engagement to achieve sustainable development goals. Index.