Cooperative Economics & Management

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Cooperation is messy and complex, yet it undergirds our everyday lives. However, the economics (and to a lesser extent, management) profession has largely neglected cooperation as a motivator, in favor of competition. However, the challenges of the present and future, like climate change and global inequality, will require actors in the economy, including entrepreneurs, governments and academics to harness cooperation much more than they will competition.

Therefore, econ.coop seeks to bring together the economics and management of cooperatives and on cooperation more generally. This of course includes discussions of cooperative theory (like discussions and interpretations on the principles and values) as well as practices, featuring research like case studies and field reports.

We are interested in building up a network of researchers, especially around the Routledge Handbook of Cooperative Economics & Management and its fortchoming Companion, Global Cooperative Economics & Movements.

Our partners include a number of research institutions and practitioners from around the world.

Selected Writings

  • The editors of the forthcoming Global Cooperative Economics (and Movements) cordially invite interested scholars to contribute to this important, timely, and transdisciplinary reference work. The volume will feature around forty 3,500-7,000 word chapters that provide a broad overview of various areas of cooperative economics & management with expected publication by Q3 2025. The volume will:…

  • I had the privilege of giving two keynote lectures as Chaire SFPI of the Academie Royale de Belgique, within the College Belgique, in October. The first of these was entitled Embedding Firms within the Mission Economy, and attempts to introduce and problematize the dual nature of sustainability (i.e. environmental and social), seeking to understand whether…

  • This page contains information regarding the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Cooperative Economics & Management, which has a tentative publication date of spring 2024, with a supplemental Companion Volume featuring case studies planned subsequently. The Handbook is currently planned to contain 48 chapters, presenting the most authoritative writing on cooperation in economics and management to date.…

  • The good news has been rolling in for Cooperative Economics, of late. Just last week, Routledge expressed interest and support in a new Handbook of Cooperative Economics. Now, our application for approval of a new Master’s and PhD program in sustainability and cooperation has been approved! This is wonderful news and means that, soon, we…

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