Announcing a New Book | A Co-operative Dilemma: Converting Organizational Form

The Centre for the Study of Co-operatives is pleased to announce the publication  of A Co-operative Dilemma: Converting Organizational Form, edited by Jorge Sousa and Roger Herman.

6 x 9 paperback / 324 pages / $20 plus gst, shipping and handling /  ISBN 978–0–88880–571–3

From the book jacket:

Based on the experience of both academics and practitioners, this book focusses on an issue of paramount importance to co-operatives, non-profits and other social economy organizations, development specialists, and policy makers. Twelve case studies from Canada, Australia, Ireland, and the United States explore the factors that lead businesses to consider converting their organizational form and the processes involved in the decision to mutualize, demutualize, or remutualize.

Cases include the credit union system in Australia, Lilydale Poultry Co-operative in Western Canada, the Prudential Insurance Company in the United States, the Atkinson Housing Co-operative in Toronto, the Coop Santé Aylmer Health Co-op in Quebec, and dairy co-operatives in Ireland.

Although current research provides important insights into the reasons behind business conversions, there is a notable absence of inquiry into the underlying issues that motivate and inform the process of altering an organizational form. This book addresses these concerns.

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