For decades, the cooperative enterprise (CE) produces market goods and/or provides
services in the interest to its members, such as communities, customers, and suppliers. The …

Co-operatives provide a different approach to organizing business through their ideals of
member ownership and democratic practice. Every co-operative member has an equal vote …

While co-operatives are traditionally associated with workers, consumers, and farmers, the
business model, with its emphasis on democracy and community, has also been adopted by …

The Rochdale co-operative model was imported from the United Kingdom to Australia in the
mid-nineteenth century. Prior to 1945, the Australian Rochdale movement experienced …

Current models of co-operative survival need to be modified to consider those national
experiences where consumer co-operatives become 'outsider co-operatives'; they cannot …

The marketing world has become increasingly visual in its legitimacy claims, yet much
scholarship has drawn on discursive approaches to legitimation. This research extends …

There has been an upsurge of interest in co-operatives as an alternative business model
since the Global Financial Crisis and the UN's declaration of 2012 as the International Year …

Consumer co-operatives provide a different approach to organizing business through their
ideals of member ownership and democratic practice. Every co-operative member has an …

Australian labour historians have generally concentrated on exploring the politics of
production rather than of consumption. The behaviour, actions and perspectives of …

Writing histories of capitalism involves making decisions about how to contextualise the
wider non-capitalist formations that underpin and sustain capitalist processes. This article …