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People-Centred Businesses J. Birchall

People-Centred Businesses By J. Birchall

People-Centred Businesses by J. Birchall

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So what is a member-owned business? What does it look like? How can we distinguish it from an investor-owned business? The crucial distinction is between a business that is people-centred, and one that is money-centred. This book explores the growing number of companies which use this model and their wider significance in society.

People-Centred Businesses Summary

People-Centred Businesses: Co-operatives, Mutuals and the Idea of Membership by J. Birchall

So what is a member-owned business? What does it look like? How can we distinguish it from an investor-owned business? The crucial distinction is between a business that is people-centred, and one that is money-centred. This book explores the growing number of companies which use this model and their wider significance in society.

About J. Birchall

JOHNSTON BIRCHALL is Professor of Social Policy at the University of Stirling, UK. He studied at Oxford and did his PhD at York University, UK. He spent five years as a housing association manager before returning to academic life to focus for the next 25 years on questions concerning stakeholder participation in co-operatives, mutuals and public service agencies. He has written several books on the subject (with translations into five languages), and has advised UN agencies on co-operative responses to the global economic crisis.

Table of Contents

People-centred Businesses Theorising the Rise and Fall of Member-owned Businesses Consumer-owned Retail Businesses Consumer-owned Insurance Providers Consumer Ownership of Housing Consumer Ownership in Public Services and Utilities Consumer/Producer Owned Banks Producer-owned and Employee-owned Businesses The Peculiar History of 'Member-owned' Businesses in Developing Countries The Idea of Membership

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NPB9780230217188
9780230217188
0230217184
People-Centred Businesses: Co-operatives, Mutuals and the Idea of Membership by J. Birchall
J. Birchall
New
Hardback
Palgrave Macmillan
2010-11-03
227
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