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International Co-operative Alliance Global Conference and General Assembly: The Topics at the Centre of the International Dialogue

The cooperative movement gathered, for the International Co-operative Alliance Global Conference and General Assembly “Co-operatives: Putting people at the centre of development”, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 14-17 November 2017. More than 1,800 delegates from over 70 countries were present, representing national and sectoral federations, providing an effective demonstration of… Read More

World Co-operative Monitor. Key Findings from the 2017 Edition

This short report, included in the JEOD “Research Proceedings” Section, illustrates the World Co-operative Monitor (WCM), an initiative promoted by the International Co-operative Alliance (Alliance) and Euricse aimed at colleting economic, organizational, and social data about cooperatives and mutuals worldwide. The report briefly illustrates the project’s aims and methodology, and… Read More

How Employment Responds to Changes in Assets at US Banks and Credit Unions

While US credit unions have one of the highest market penetration rates in the world (more than 40 per cent), they have been rarely investigated by economists. In this study, we use new panel data to provide the first evidence of how US commercial banks and credit unions adjust their… Read More

No Heir apparent? Exploring the Worker Co-operative Model as a Solution to Family Business Continuity

Family businesses, with no apparent heir, face the risk of discontinuity. While a number of family businesses rely heavily on non-family employees, the role of non-family employees in the continuity of family businesses is under-researched. The workers’ co-operative model offers one way to address this gap as it represents a… Read More

Workers’ Propensity to Make a Monetary Sacrifice in Favour of Colleagues or People from the General Population: A Comparison based on an Artefactual Field Experiment

By drawing on a dataset collected through an artefactual field experiment, this paper analyses the propensity of social cooperative workers to make a monetary sacrifice in favour of colleagues or people drawn randomly from the general population. We find that workers tend to sacrifice lower amounts when it benefits colleagues… Read More

Letter from the Chief Editors

Since its incipit in 2012, JEOD has published manuscripts addressing a variety of organisational forms. Contributors have focused mainly on alternative forms of enterprise featuring participatory and democratic governance solutions, as well as on the relation between such organisations and instances of local development. Much of the reflection has concerned… Read More

Social Economy in UNESCO Biosphere Reserves. A Multiperspective and Complexity Approach

The paper describes how social economy is a tool to further ambitions of sustainable development in model areas such as biosphere reserves. This is based on the notion of interdependencies between humans and nature in socio-ecological systems. Understanding the local resource base is vital to achieve a sustainable development, where… Read More

Linking Social and Ecological Sustainability: An Analysis of Livelihoods and the Changing Natural Resources in the Middle Zambezi Biosphere Reserve

In this paper, we aim to explore community livelihoods and conservation issues surrounding natural resources that are utilised by resettled farmers within the Middle Zambezi Biosphere Reserve, Zimbabwe. Data collection was done in two phases. During the first phase undertaken in 2011, we administered household interviews, held focus group discussions… Read More

The Community Enterprises of the Appennino Tosco-Emiliano UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, Italy: Biodiversity Guardians and Sustainable Development Innovators

The UNESCO recently designated the Appennino Tosco-Emiliano as a biosphere reserve (BR) in 2015. On the reserve territory, it is possible to rediscover the constitutive elements of this environmental, socioeconomic and historical-cultural space. In particular, the existence of different stratifications of social entrepreneurship represents a valuable element that the biosphere… Read More

Biosphere Reserves: An “Enabling Space” for Communities

This article considers the challenge of socio-economic development within biosphere reserves (BRs). How to achieve compatibility between human activities in BRs has not been considered in detail. Part of the issue is methodological; BRs have common aims, but greatly differ in terms of their contextual elements. We identify a number… Read More