Table of Contents

Introduction by Tapas R. Dash

Part I: The Cooperative Enterprise and Why do We Need It?

Chapter 1: Why Do We Need Cooperatives to Make the Business World Plural? By Vera Zamagni

Chapter 2: Moral Commitment as a Driver for Successful Business Development: The Cooperative Way by Greg MacLeod

Chapter 3: Cooperative Management in Emerging Markets by Satyendra Singh

Part II: Cooperative as a Viable Business Model: Performances, Potentialities and Challenges

Chapter 4: Agricultural Cooperatives and their Role in Poverty Reduction in Tanzania by John Sumelius, Stefan Bäckman & Faustine K. Bee

Chapter 5: Effectiveness of Farmers’ Cooperatives in Agricultural Development: Evidence from the State of Assam, India by Niranjan Roy

Chapter 6: Cooperatives as Organizational Choice: Past and Present Developments in the Post-Yugoslav Space by Franci Avsec

Chapter 7: The Role of Cooperatives in Improving Financial Inclusion in the Philippines by Karen P. Quilloy & Jan Danica S. Asma

Chapter 8: Cooperatives and Rural Development: Historical Perspectives and Experiences from Tanzania by Emmanuel Maro Nyankweli & Tafuteni Nicholaus Chusi

Chapter 9: Workers’ Cooperative Movement in Argentina and other Latin American Countries: An Alternative to Unemployment and Precarious Work by Andrés Eduardo Ruggeri

Chapter 10: Managing Cooperatives in South Africa: An Economic Perspective by Ravinder Rena

Chapter 11: Strengthening the Role and Further Development of Cooperatives in the Republic of Armenia by Suren Movsisyan

Chapter 12: Benefits and Challenges of Agricultural Marketing Cooperatives in Moshi District, Tanzania: The Experience from Mweka Sungu, Mruwia, and Uru North Njari Cooperative Societies by Gratian Cronery Rwekaza & Paulo Anania Fute

Chapter 13: Emerging Issues in the Management of Cooperatives in India by Tapas R. Dash

About the Author

Tapas R. Dash is professor and research advisor at CamEd Business School, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Reviews

" The cooperative form of enterprise attracts today growing interest, and for good reason. Cooperatives in the Global Economy is at once timely, original, and useful in policy making. It is a must-read for those interested in how the world could be a fairer and more enjoyable place."
*Stefano Zamagni, University of Bologna*

"As the world economy struggles with a viable response to the scourges of climate change, exploding income, and wealth inequality, an accelerating extinction of species, and declining life in the oceans it becomes clear that we need viable alternatives. This book explores the opportunity to grow business alternatives whose purpose is to meet human need to replace our current simple and dangerous enslavement to the needs of capital."
*J. Tom Webb, Sobey School of Business*