Learning to swim against the tide: crises and co-operative credibility – some international and historical examples
Learning to swim against the tide: crises and co-operative credibility – some international and historical examples
This chapter is concerned with how co-operatives cope with arguably the greatest threat to staking a claim to the economic mainstream: the crises which emerge from time to time within co-operatives and events which threaten to undermine the credibility of co-operation as a viable economic, business and social model. Its’ main focus is on the recent crisis of The Co-operative Group in Britain and its historical roots since the 1950s, but also draws on the postwar experiences of several European co-operative movements.
Keywords: Co-operative movement (UK & Europe), The Co-operative Group, Co-operative Wholesale Society, Crises, Retailing, Consumers, Governance, Membership, Co-operative identity, UK, Europe
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