The Consumer Co-operative Sector by Wilson, John F.; Webster, Anthony; Ekberg, Espen;

Rövid leírás:

This book is a study of strategic renewal in the consumer co-operative sector, using eleven international case-studies to demonstrate how the concept has been applied over the last fifty years.

Hosszú leírás:

Globally, consumer co-operation has experienced a difficult period since the 1970s. Large scale failures in France, Germany and Austria were accompanied by loss of market share in the UK (including the failure of the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society and its takeover by its English counterpart). Even in the Nordic countries, where consumer co-operation has always been more robust, new challenges from the non-co-operative sector had to be confronted. How did co-operative organizations in different countries cope with these challenges? What were the processes of strategic renewal that they undertook? How successful were they? These are the key questions that the collection will address, culminating in an analysis by the editors of the effectiveness of strategic renewal in the co-operative sector. This book is a study of strategic renewal in the consumer co-operative sector, using eleven international case-studies to demonstrate how the concept has been applied over the last fifty years.

Chapters 2 and 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Tartalomjegyzék:

1. Strategic renewal in the consumer co-operative sector: an international study   Section one: Scandinavia   2. The darker Finnish consumer co-operative story: the fall of the workers’ E movement, c. 1950-1995   3. Creating competitive advantage through co-operativeness: the strategic renewal of the Finnish S Group since the early 1980s   4. When strategic renewal fails: 25 years of continuous losses at a large Norwegian consumer co-op, 1990-2014   5. From the fall of Coop Norden to “long term boringness”: the Swedish co-op, 200-2020   Section two: Europe   6. Coping with crisis: strategic renewal in The Co-operative Group, 2013-23   7. The paradoxical relation between consumer co-operatives and transformation in French History since the 19th century   8. The case of Coop Consumatori, Italy: ambidexterity as a way to reconcile social and economics dimensions   Section three: Rest of the World   9. Co-operative strategic renewal in Australia   10. Eighty Years of Strategic Renewal at Federated Co-operatives Limited   11. Cooperative Identity, Participation and Sustainability: Innovations at iCOOP Korea   12. Strategic renewal after the financial crisis: the Case of Co-op Sapporo   13. Themes, Lessons and Further Research