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Exploring Asian-Pacific Co-operatives in Theory and Practice

Resilience and Thriving between the State and the Market

Morris Altman, Akira Kurimoto (Herausgeber)

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340 Seiten

2025
Academic Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-443-23784-3 (ISBN)

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Exploring Asian-Pacific Co-operatives in Theory and Practice: Resilience and Thriving between the State and the Market investigates Asian Pacific co-op models mainly through the analytical lenses of Asian Pacific researchers. It consists of theoretical analysis on transversal themes from interdisciplinary studies and national case studies covering new sectors and new countries. It focuses on a variety of challenging issues using different analytical approaches to co-operative challenges in the Asian Pacific and examines the traditional dichotomy between the State and the Market. This book gives voice to co-operative scholars in the Asian Pacific to investigate and interrogate the co-operative business model and co-operatives in the Asian Pacific context where the history and evolution of co-operatives often differs from their ‘Western’ counterparts. The demise of state socialism has led to a wide range of deregulation and globalization while market fundamentalism has been questioned by widening socio-economic gap among people and nations, financial crises, COVID-19, and the climate challenge. Co-operatives represent a fourth sector related to and intersecting with the State, Market, and Community. This book examines the extent to which co-operatives represent a vibrant and sustainable component of the broader economy. In spite of the challenges faced by co-operatives in the Asian-Pacific region, some co-op models have demonstrated resilience and sustainability while maintaining their Co-operative Identity, remaining operationally consistent with co-operative principles. The authors also examine why some co-operatives are transforming into public or conventional companies through public polices and/or market competition. Overall, this volume explores how co-operatives emerged and evolved between the State and Market in light of the Co-operative Identity and Principles. Exploring Asian-Pacific Co-operatives in Theory and Practice broadens our understanding of co-operatives by placing our narrative in the Asian Pacific context using multiple case studies, addressing an array of socio-economic challenges, and engaging in different modeling approaches.

Morris Altman is the Dean of the University of Dundee School of Business and Chair Professor of Behavioral and Institutional Economics and Co-operatives. He is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, earning his PhD in economics from McGill University in 1984. Morris was a former visiting scholar at Cambridge (Elected Visiting Fellow), Canterbury, New Zealand (Erskine Professor), Cornell, Duke, Harvard, Hebrew, Stirling, and Stanford University. He has published well over 120 refereed papers and given over 250 international academic presentations and has also published 19 books in economic theory, co-operatives, behavioral economics, economic growth, ethics, economic history, sustainability, and public policy. He is past president of the Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics (SABE) and the Association for Social Economics and is co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Review of Behavioral Economics. He also served on research committees of the International Co-operative Alliance. Akira Kurimoto is the Senior Fellow of the Japan Co-operative Alliance and the Chair of the International Co-operative Alliance (ICA) Research Committee. He serves as a member of the ICA Co-operative Identity Advisory Group and the Steering Committee of the ICA World Co-operative Monitor. He studied law at the University of Tokyo. He was a professor at the Institute for Solidarity-based Society at Hosei University, Tokyo 2015-2020. He was the board member/chief researcher of the Consumer Co-operative Institute, Japan and the general secretary of the Robert Owen Association. He edited a number of volumes including The Emergence of Global Citizenship: Utopian Ideas, Co-operative Movements and the Third Sector (2005) and Toward Contemporary Co-operative Studies: Perspectives from Japan’s Consumer Co-ops (2010). He is a founding member of the Asia Pacific Co-operative Research Partnership which published Waking the Asian Pacific Co-operative Potential in 2020.

1. Introduction

Part 1 Theoretical foundation for analyzing AP Co-ops
A. Institutional changes and transformation in the AP co-ops
2. Legal framework of AP co-ops by Ann Apps
3. Transformation and expansion of AP co-ops
4. Demutualization of co-ops in AP
5. Co-operative Spin-off in AP
6. Co-operation among AP co-ops
7. International co-operation to/from AP co-ops
B. AP co-ops seen from entrepreneurial perspectives
8. Modelling multi-stakeholder co-ops in AP
9. Governance and management in AP co-op
10. Eco-innovation of AP co-ops
11. Worker’s co-ops in tension
12. How Co-operatives Can Be Competitive with Plantations in AP
13. AP co-ops seen from youth’s perspective
14. Opportunities for Platform Co-operatives in AP

Part 2 Case studies of AP co-operatives’ good practices
A. Financial co-ops
15. NACUFOK KR
16. Labor banks JP
17. Kyosai insurance JP
18. Kopkun and INKUR ID
19. Summary
B. Health care co-ops
20. Minami Medical Co-op JP
21. Health care social co-ops KR
22. Indian co-op hospital IN
23. Galle co-op hospital LK
24. Summary
C. Education and youth co-ops
25. School co-ops in Selangor MY
26. Rah-e Roshd cultural-educational cooperative IR
27. University co-ops JP
28. University co-ops KR
29. University co-ops ID
30. University co-ops in India
31. Summary
D. Platform co-ops
32. Life magic care co-op KR
33. SEWA India
34. Open Food Network
35. Loomio NZ
36. Summary
37. Conclusion

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.8.2025
Reihe/Serie	Perspectives in Behavioral Economics and the Economics of Behavior
Verlagsort	San Diego
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	0-443-23784-0 / 0443237840
ISBN-13	978-0-443-23784-3 / 9780443237843
Zustand	Neuware