Articles in Business

Oblique Solutions NWQ offers collaborative approaches to problem solving from Bob Davis in the great Northwest.  Consulting for Co-op Development, Governance, Consensus Decision-Making & Facilitation. Hands on experience working in co-...

Gary Hansen was a professor of economics, and of management and human resources at Utah State University, and co-author of Putting Democracy to Work: a practical guide for starting and managing worker-owned businesses, and of Steps to Starting a...

In a recent report to the United Nations (UN) General Assembly, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon highlighted the contribution of cooperatives to socio-economic development. The report, which illustrates the contributions of all cooperatives to the...

"This course provides an introduction to the modern cooperative movement. (More than 800 million people around the world are members of co-operatives, including an estimated 1 in 4 Americans) Our goal is to acquaint students with the historical...

Last week a few of us from Equal Exchange traveled to El Salvador to attend the CLAC’s First International Gathering of the Small Producers’ Symbol (SPP), an historic event which marks the first Fair Trade initiative developed by small farmer...

"Drawing upon the literature on anchor institutions and on Ann Markusen’s (2007) analysis of the “Consumption Base” theory of development, I look at the assets deployed in the “Cleveland Model.” From the network of small and medium cooperative...

Carl Davidson of Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism tells the story of the Mondragon Cooperatives at the 2011 Left Forum. They began small in the poverty of the Basque Country of Spain after World War II. The workers own them...

IT is impossible for me to start this greeting without mentioning the terrible natural disasters that have occurred over the last 12 months. No sooner had we written our messages for 2005 when tragedy struck in Asia. The tsunami not only caused...