Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Cooperative (or co-operative) economics is a field of economics that incorporates cooperative studies and political economy toward the study and management of cooperatives. [ 1 ] History
Retailers' cooperatives also engage in group advertising and promotion, uniform stock merchandising, and private branding. [2] This increases consumer recognition of brands and is beneficial for the stores under a franchise. The aim of the cooperative is to improve buying conditions for its members, which are retail businesses in this case.
Economic models are useful for analyzing cooperative relationships because they provide predictions on how individuals act when cooperation is an option. Economic models are not perfect, but they provide a general idea of how cooperative relationships work. Contrary to the mainstream dogma, a recently published article.
A worker cooperative or producer cooperative is a cooperative owned and democratically controlled by its "worker-owners". In a pure worker cooperative, only the workers own shares of the business on a one person, one vote basis, though hybrid forms exist in which consumers, community members or investors also own some shares (though these ...
The National Cooperative Grocers Association maintains a food cooperative directory. Seattle-based R.E.I., which specializes in outdoor sporting equipment, is the largest consumer cooperative in the United States. [24] Outdoor retailer Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC) in Canada was one of that country's major consumer cooperatives.
The Cooperative Marketing Act of 1926 44 Stat. 802 (1926) was a piece of agricultural legislation passed in the United States which expanded upon the Capper–Volstead Act of 1922. [1] It allowed farmers to exchange “past, present, and prospective crop, market, statistical, economic, and other similar information” at their local cooperative ...
Co-operative wholesale societies advocated co-operative federalism, a strand or school of thought in co-operative economics that advocates consumer co-operative societies. The pioneering co-operative federalists argued that consumers' co-operatives should form co-operative wholesale societies and that, through such arrangements, they should ...
Many animal species cooperate with each other in mutual symbiosis.One example is the ocellaris clownfish, which dwells among the tentacles of Ritteri sea anemones.The anemones provide the clownfish with protection from their predators (which cannot tolerate the stings of the sea anemone's tentacles), while the fish defend the anemones against butterflyfish (which eat anemones)