The evolution of business history offers some radical ways forward for a discipline which is
rich in potential. This shortform book offers an expert overview of how the field has relevance …

Interest in alternative enterprises is again high, yielding a wave of popular experimentation
with alternative organizational models, and new scholarship. From an organizational studies …

From the mid-1920s, the dance hall occupied a pivotal place in the culture of working-and
lower-middle-class communities in Britain-a place rivalled only by the cinema and …

Under what conditions do cooperatively owned enterprises scale to stand alongside investor-
owned firms? This article measures and attempts to explain large cooperatives' variable …

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 …

Recognition of co-operatives as a legitimate business model and form of economic
participation was significantly challenged by the rise of neo-liberalism in the 1980s with its …

Poor places across the globe have pressing needs, not least because the social, economic,
and environmental issues that challenge us all have a disproportionate impact upon them …

There has been a strong co-operative response to the neoliberal takeover of education in
recent years, with both co-operative schools and higher education emerging in the UK. In …

Economic theory tends to link the emergence of cooperatives with moments of economic
crisis, and to regard them as less efficient than investor-owned firms. This work aims to test …

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 …