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Cooperatives, Credit Unions, and Social Engagement in Canada

2007
Co-operatives serve as engines for local economies; generating and retaining local wealth, operating through existing social networks within communities and providing economic opportunities for local people. Is there a correlation between levels of social engagement and the presence of co-operatives and credit unions?
Kennedy, Travis, Kennedy, Travis
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Cooperative values and the development of the credit union movement in Australia

Journal of Management History, 2022
Purpose Credit unions offer an alternative to traditional banking given their distinctive ownership structure and their goal of maximising members’ benefits. Motivated by the increased expectations regarding more ethical behaviour in the financial industry, this paper aims to provide a better understanding of the relevant features and values that ...
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Examining the Effects of Cameroon Cooperative Credit Union League (CamCCUL) on Satisfaction of Members in Affiliated Credit Unions

Journal of Economics, Management and Trade, 2019
Aim: This study set out to examine the effects of Cameroon Cooperative Credit Union League (CamCCUL) on the satisfaction of members in affiliated Credit Unions. In a world where heightened competition keeps elevating the pivotal role of customer as economic bottom line-drivers, exploring the role corporate parenting plays on both intermediary and ...
Buwah, Neba Noela, Akpan, Emmanuel I, Joyvice, Chofor   +2 more
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The Credit Union as A Cooperative Institution

Review of Social Economy, 1971
(1971). The Credit Union as A Cooperative Institution. Review of Social Economy: Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 207-217.
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The Changing Role of Cooperatives and Credit Unions in Czech Economy

2016
Within the Czech Republic, the history of credit unions, savings and loan co-operatives and other types of credits and mutuals was very rich till the beginning of World War II. However, these days there are only a few “credit cooperatives/credit unions” left many of which are gradually changing under the Basel European regulations and the supervision ...
Hunčová, Magdalena, Mikeska, Martin
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Credit Union Governance and Survival of the Cooperative Form

Journal of Financial Services Research, 2001
Credit unions are cooperative financial institutions that typically operate on a one-member/one-vote governance rule. This paper demonstrates that such a governance rule may enhance the survival of such organizational forms in the face of adverse incentives created by accumulated financial surpluses and identifies factors that may prompt conversion to ...
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The Cooperative Difference? Social Auditing in Canadian Credit Unions

2000
This paper reports research on three Canadian credit unions which have made an ongoing commitment to social auditing and which have conducted more than onc social audit. For these credit unions social auditing offers one way to promote and demonstrate accountability, and provides information which can guide credit unions' operations and policy ...
Brown, Leslie, Brown, Leslie
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On the Implied Wholeness Significance of International Financial Cooperatives and Credit Unions

International Journal of Corporate Finance and Accounting, 2022
The purpose of this paper is to analyze pre-COVID-19 performance indicators of international financial cooperatives and credit unions. By assuming a wholeness approach to cooperative development, new potentialities are suggested without jeopardizing the initial concept of non-financial cooperative entities.
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Cooperative Savings and Credit Unions in Latvia

2016
Cooperative Savings and Credit Unions (CSCUs) in Latvia are formal cooperative financial institutions operating on financial market. CSCUs provide basic financial services—savings, loans and money transferring—to their members at reasonable price. CSCUs are mutual help organizations, which mostly serve unbankable people.
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Credit Unions and Credit Cooperatives

2023
Olufemi Sallyanne Decker, Lili Yan
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