Economies of Scale Versus Participation: a Co-operative Dilemma?
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co-operatives; democracy; efficiency; corporate governance; Mondragon; Finland;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- G34 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Mergers; Acquisitions; Restructuring; Corporate Governance
- L25 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Firm Performance
- P0 - Economic Systems - - General
- P13 - Economic Systems - - Capitalist Systems - - - Cooperative Enterprises
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