ABSTRACT
This volume has two primary goals: first, to provide a comprehensive overview of the state of the art with respect to the role of cooperation in the economy and organizations, to compensate for the lack of shelf space devoted to the study of cooperative enterprise in its various forms and manifestations, including issues of employee ownership and workplace democracy. Second, it aims to be visionary in the sense that it sets out to anticipate and guide a growing interest in cooperation, in fields as diverse as technology, organizational studies, and sustainability science. It refers to the resulting approach as cooperative economics and management (CEM).
