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From the iVLG blog: Today’s post is going to digress from discussing the standard business model and introduce you to a different form of running a business: the worker cooperative. These organizations come in a variety of shapes and sizes. Below...

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...

From the Star Tribune Article by: ERIC WIEFFERING When Brent Heuth and a team of researchers at the University of Wisconsin decided to measure the economic impact of cooperative-owned businesses in the United States, they didn't figure it would be...

The Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives, the oldest regional worker cooperative federation in the U.S. since its founding in 1994, may be going through some structural changes because of difficulties getting member cooperatives to seat...

Representative Chaka Fattah (D–Penn.) has been working closely with members of Cooperation Works! and NCBA to create legislation that will more than double the national capacity for co-op development and provide federal funding for...

Call for Papers – Special Issue of Organization Deadline 28th February 2013 Worker' Cooperatives as an organizational alternative: Challenges, achievements and promise in organizational governance and ownership Guest Editors Iñaki Santa Cruz....

For over sixteen years, a nonprofit called Women’s Action to Gain Economic Security has incubated and supported worker cooperatives to advance a vision of economic empowerment and opportunity for immigrant women. Today, the four worker-owned...

The Country Natural Beef cooperative said it’s having trouble filling orders because high prices are luring some producers back to traditional sales outlets. The cooperative hopes consumers will pay a premium for meat raised under guidelines for...

Today, a conference about worker cooperatives has started in Quebec, it will last until October 15th 2011. This event is split into two parts. The title of the first conference is ‘Business Succession and Employee Ownership Conference', which takes...

Mike Leung, founder of the yet-chartered Worker Cooperative Federal Credit Union, and Abolish Human Rentals, interprets and offers constructive criticism of the standard model for capital structures in the United States.  The presentation is...

Una nutrida agenda de actividades ha preparado el IDECOOP en República Dominicana, para celebrar el 'Mes del Cooperativismo' y la semana de aniversar

Sustainability means different things to different people. For most, it simply involves being environmentally friendly. However, there is more to sustainability than immediate environmental impact. A practice may do less damage in the short run...