Small businesses are usually all about the individual entrepreneur – pursuing their vision in a way that they feel most appopriate and comfortable with.
But increasingly (and as reported in The Times) these small firms are forming co-operatives in order to better trade, better meet their needs, and ulimately prosper – are we therefore seeing the start of the end of the individual entrepreneur and the emergence of the ‘group entreprenuer‘ using models forged with the social and co-operative economy?
It used to be that we looked to private business for tools to better ‘raise our game’, feels a bit strange that they’re now looking to us for inspiration and supportive ideas and models…
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