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Catalan industrial architecture in the last quarter of the 19th century and first quarter of the 20th century [PDF]

open access: yesCatalan Historical Review, 2017
The economy of Catalonia experienced a major surge from the mid-19th to the early 20th centuries, primarily because of two crucial factors: first, the industrialisation process, chiefly with the development of the textile sector, and secondly the revival
Raquel Lacuesta
doaj   +1 more source

Beyond profit maximization: The effect of cooperative governance on insolvency risk in the Brazilian supplementary healthcare industry

open access: yesAnnals of Public and Cooperative Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Traditional bankruptcy literature has primarily focused on commercial enterprises, often overlooking the unique dynamics of cooperatives and other small organizations. This study addresses this g ap by developing a predictive model for insolvency risk within Brazil's supplementary health sector, encompassing both for‐profit and not‐for‐profit ...
Thiago de Oliveira Victorino   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Urban inequalities and marginalization of the Social and Solidarity Economy: A comparative analysis in the Sants‐Montjuïc district in Barcelona

open access: yesAnnals of Public and Cooperative Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how urban inequalities influence the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) through a study of two Barcelona neighbourhoods. It evaluates the limitations of SSE promotion policies implemented between 2016 and 2024, focusing on their impact on diversifying socio‐enterprise initiatives and fostering cooperative ecosystems with
Santiago Eizaguirre Anglada   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

How do collective identities influence sector‐wide digital transformations? Insights from the European cooperative sector

open access: yesEuropean Management Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper applies the multilevel perspective (MLP) theory to investigate how collective identities influence sector‐wide digital transformations, focusing on the cooperative sector in Europe. By employing a wide mix of primary and secondary data from platform and incumbent cooperatives, our analysis showed that collective identities ...
Paolo Gerli, Luca Mora
wiley   +1 more source

Business Models of “New Cooperativism” Organizations as an Instrument of Sustainable Development Stimulation

open access: yes, 2020
Purpose: The article presents business models developed in organizations of the “new cooperativism” trend, whose application leads to a bottom-up solution of important social problems at the local level and, in a broader perspective, stimulation of ...
Zawiślak, Paweł
core   +1 more source

Learned Family on the Educator‐Kibbutzim—Knowledge, Kinship, and Social Transformation as Historical Legacy

open access: yesAnthropology &Education Quarterly, Volume 57, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This article explores how educator‐kibbutzim recruit socialist‐Zionist learning traditions to construct new forms of kinship. Bringing communities of practice theory to new kinship studies, we expand on the role of knowledge in bridging the social/biological.
Lauren Erdreich, Rotem Bar Israel
wiley   +1 more source

If They Touch One of Us, They Touch All of Us: Cooperativism as a Counterlogic to Neoliberal Capitalism

open access: yes, 2018
Through an ethnographic examination of the BAUEN, a workers' cooperative and part of the recuperated businesses movement, this article considers the emergence of a logic of cooperativism in Argentina in recent years.
Karen Faulk (3888367)
core   +1 more source

Cooperativism in Cultural and Tech Sectors: Promises and Challenges

open access: yes, 2022
This article reports on a survey of co-operatives in the cultural and technology sectors in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Creative industries are a growth area for new cooperativism, with more than a quarter of surveyed co-operatives
Dreyer, Bianca C.   +3 more
core  

The Popular Economy and Its Critics: Cooperation and Contradiction in the Sandinista Welfare‐Developmentalist State

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.
ABSTRACT The popular economy is a subjective economic community in Nicaragua. It is sustained by the imaginative and material labors of worker‐producers organized in households, cooperatives, and other self‐managing associations. This article demonstrates the popular economy's importance to the format of work, wealth, and welfare in contemporary ...
Jonah Walters
wiley   +1 more source

Las relaciones de género en cooperativas agropecuarias de Camagüey

open access: yesAgrisost, 2016
RESUMEN Para alcanzar el empoderamiento de las mujeres en el sector rural de modo que estén presentes en las diferentes instancias y niveles de dirección, se hace necesaria su participación equitativa y sostenible en estos procesos.
Maribel Almaguer Rondón   +3 more
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