Outside the U.S.

ARTICLES-PUBLICATIONS

Articles  \  Books  \  Papers  \  Reports

ARTICLES

Connie Bruck, “A Reporter at Large: Millions for Millions,” The New Yorker, October 30, 2006.
article-bruck.pdf (76KB)

John Logue, Economics, Cooperation, and Employee Ownership: The Emilia Romagna model – in more detail, Kent, Ohio: Ohio Employee Ownership Center, 2006.
article-logue.pdf (1.6MB)

Margaret Lund, “Italy’s Co-ops Draw Strong Public Support,” Cooperative Grocer Online, #91. November-December 2000.
http://www.cooperativegrocer.coop/articles/index.php?id=295

Wilda Vanek, “Italian Social Cooperatives,” Grassroots Economic Organizing Newsletter, 2001.
http://www.geo.coop/archives/vanek.htm

Tom Webb, “Canada’s Co-op Atlantic: Showing the Way to Co-operation Among Cooperatives,” Cooperative Grocer Online, #108. Sept.-Oct. 2003.
http://www.cooperativegrocer.coop/articles/index.php?id=472

Marilyn Wentz. “Learning from the Italians,” Rocky Mountain Farmers Union. December 31, 2002.
http://www.rmfu.org/2002/12/31/learning-from-the-italians

Muhammad Yunus, “Does the Capitalist System Have to be a Handmaiden of the Rich?” June 1994, excerpts from Keynote Address:
http://www.gdrc.org/icm/grameen-keynote.html

Karen Zimbelman. “The Potential of a Cooperative System: A Visit to Co-op Atlantic,” Cooperative Grocer Online, #50. Jan.-Feb.1994.
http://www.cooperativegrocer.coop/articles/index.php?id=149

BOOKS

Jonathan Birchall, Cooperatives and the Millennium Development Goals. Geneva: International Labor Office, August 2004.
book-birchall.pdf (530KB)

Jonathan Feldman and Jessica Nembhard. 2002. From Community Economic Development and Ethnic Entrepreneurship to Economic Democracy: The Co-operative Alternative. Sweden: PFMI.

Nicole Elisabeth Frukas. Bread, Cheese, and Expertise: Dutch Science Shops and Democratic Institutions. Troy, NY: Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies, Rochester Polytechnic Institute, May 2002.
book-farkas.pdf (1MB)

Gregory MacLeod, From Mondragón to America. Nova Scotia: UCCB Press, 1997.

PAPERS

Jonathan Birchall, “The Future of Co-operatives and Mutual Businesses.” Wellington, New Zealand: New Zealand Co-operatives Association, May 1998.
http://nz.coop/docs/johnston.php

Christina Clamp, “The Evolution of Management in the Mondragón Cooperatives.” Paper presented at the congress, Mapping Co-operative Studies in the New Millennium. Victoria, Canada: British Columbia Center for Co-operative Studies, May 2003.
paper-clamp.pdf (150KB)

Corinna Fischer, Loet Leydesdorff, and Malte Schophaus. “Science Shops in Europe: The Public as Stakeholder,” Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam, 2003.
http://users.fmg.uva.nl/lleydesdorff/sshops03/

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Susan Davis, Social Entrepreneurship: Towards an Entrepreneurial Culture for Social and Economic Development, Arlington, VA: Ashoka, July 31, 2002.
paper-davis.pdf (250KB)

Christopher Dunford, Evidence of Microfinance’s Contribution to Achieving the Millennium Development Goals, Halifax, NS: Global Microcredit Summit, November 12-15, 2006.
paper-dumford.pdf (196KB)

Jonathan Lewis, What Would Leland Stanford Do? An Editorial Commentary Submitted to the Microfinance Community about the Compartamos IPO, based on a presentation based on a presentation to Theories of Civil Society, Philanthropy and the Nonprofit Sector, Department of Political Science, Professor Bruce Sievers, Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University, May 30, 2007 revised June 12, 2007.
paper-lewis.pdf (100KB)

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Vernon Loke and Michael Sherraden, Building Assets from Birth: A Global Comparison of Child Development Account Policies, CSD Working Papers No. 08-03, St. Louis, MO: Center for Social Development, Washington University in St. Louis, 2008.
paper-loke-sherraden.pdf (250KB)

Jose Mari Luzarraga Monasterio, Dionisio Aranzadi Telleria, and Iñazio Irizar Etxebarria, Understanding Mondragón Globalization Process: Local Job Creation through Multi-Localization—Facing globalization threats to community stability, Oñati and Bilbao, Spain Mondragón Unibertsitatea and Universidad de Deusto, 2007.
paper-luzarraga-et-al.pdf (212KB)

Marge Magner, Microfinance: A Platform for Social Change, Washington, DC: Grameen Foundation, March 2007.
paper-magner.pdf (744KB)

Hank A. J. Mulder, Science Shops as Science-Society Interfaces. Sevilla, España: 2nd Living Knowledge Conference on “Advancing Science and Society Interactions," February 3, 2005.
paper-mulder.pdf (1MB)

Albert Rinaldi, The Emilian Model Revisited: Twenty Years After. Modena, Italia: Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, September 2002.
paper-rinaldi.pdf (100KB)

Lloy Wylie, European Social Co-operatives: A Survey and Analysis of Current Developments. Victoria, British Columbia, Canada: BC Institute for Co-operative Studies, Occasional Papers, number 6 (2001).
paper-wylie.pdf (148KB)

REPORTS

Aziza Agia, Innovative, Significant Scale Models of Community Asset-Building: Learning from International Experience. College Park, MD and Washington, D.C.: The Democracy Collaborative and the National Center for Economic and Security Alternatives, 2004.
report-agia.pdf (1.36MB)

Co-operative Secretariat. Co-operatives: Solutions to 21st Century Challenges. Ottawa: Government of Canada, October 2001.
report-co-operative.pdf (900KB)

Co-operative Secretariat, in cooperation with the Canadian Federation of Worker Co-operatives. Worker Co-operative Success Stories, Ottawa: Government of Canada, August 2000.
report-co-operative2.pdf (123KB)

Eurosif, Venture Capital for Sustainability 2007, Paris, France: Eurosif, 2007.
report-eurosif.pdf (3MB)

Peter Plastrick, Sustainable Solutions: Building Assets for Empowerment and Sustainable Development, New York, NY: Ford Foundation, August 2002.
report-plastrik.pdf (5.1MB)

Norbert Steinhaus, editor, Proceedings of the 2nd International Living Knowledge Conference “Advancing Science and Society Interactions, Seville, Spain: International Science Shop Network, February 2-5, 2005.
report-steinhaus.pdf (3.7MB)

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Andrea Westall and Danny Chalkley, Social Enterprise Futures, London: The Smith Institute, 2007.
report-westall-chalkley.pdf (200KB)