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 am very happy to announce that our Routledge Handbook of Cooperative Economics is one step closer to becoming reality. We’re moving on to the next stage and will soon be putting out a general #callforabstracts for the book. Please keep a lookout for that and inform your friends and colleagues. We know there are…

  • The topic of the cooperative economy made a recent appearance on the psychiatry and mental health podcast, “A Place of Safety”, where I discuss my research of Italian social and community cooperatives, discuss the state of the art in researching cooperation and cooperatives and look at potentials for “importing-exporting” self-organization and multi-stakeholding in different contexts…

  • Images from my first lecture as part of the cycle on Sustainable Investments at the firm-level in the beautiful “Salle Maria-Theresia” at the Palais d’Academie. With this talk, and the talk next week, I am initiating my research fellowship at the Royal Academy of Sciences, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium as “SFPI Chair”. The…

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