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Collective Impacts through Job Crafting in a Unionized Worker Cooperative

This case study examines the impact of union worker cooperatives, with the case of Cooperative Home Care Associates (CHCA), on the proactive efforts of precarious workers to change their work experience and environment. Our investigation centers on workers’ job crafting, defined as workers’ self-initiated actions to redesign roles in alignment… Read More

Worker Cooperatives and Development: A Business Cycle Analysis

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the achievement of sustainable development goals represent a new challenge for economic systems, directly involving productive sectors in this process. Alternative organizational models of production could play an important role in promoting sustainable development. This paper conducts a comparative analysis of traditional capitalist… Read More

Editorial: Cooperatives at the Frontline of Societal Transformation

In our current era, we face widespread expulsion from multiple systems due to complex, multicausal problems. Many of these challenges are rooted in economic dynamics that have severely impacted the environment and heightened societal insecurity. In response, hybrid organizations – particularly cooperatives – have been recognized for their potential to… Read More

Economic and Social Performance Evaluation of the Two Types of Work Integration Social Enterprises (WISEs) in Greece: Mental Health Sector’s WISEs Versus Social Entrepreneurs’ WISEs

The main objective of the present study was to explore the differences in the economic and social performance of the two institutional types of work integration social enterprises (WISEs) in Greece. The social performance of Greek WISEs was linked with their ability to create job positions that are sufficient to… Read More

Measuring the Organisational Horizontality in Argentinian Software SMEs: The “Worker Ownership – Horizontality of Management” Scale

Based upon economic democracy conceptions, and taking organisational management as its central dimension, the article has a twofold purpose. Firstly, it proposes a conceptual elucidation for “horizontality of management”, a construct that represents the scope and depth of collective participation in the manifold organisational decision-making domains. Secondly, it offers a… Read More

Editorial

Diversity matters, both at the firm and at the macro-economic level. This is the driving mission of JEOD. While the importance of diversity is already quite well recognized in other disciplines as a major source of wellbeing and quality of life, an open discussion on diversity in economics (meaning both… Read More