TY - BOOK
T1 - The consumer co-operative sector
T2 - International perspectives on strategic renewal
A2 - Wilson, John F.
A2 - Webster, Anthony
A2 - Ekberg, Espen
A2 - Skurnik, Samuli
PY - 2023/12/1
Y1 - 2023/12/1
N2 - Globally, consumer co-operation has experienced a difficult period since the 1970s. Large scale failures in France, Germany and Austria were accompanied by loss of market share in the UK (including the failure of the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society and its takeover by its English counterpart). Even in the Nordic countries, where consumer co-operation has always been more robust, new challenges from the non-co-operative sector had to be confronted. How did co-operative organizations in different countries cope with these challenges? What were the processes of strategic renewal that they undertook? How successful were they? These are the key questions that the collection will address, culminating in an analysis by the editors of the effectiveness of strategic renewal in the co-operative sector. This book is a study of strategic renewal in the consumer co-operative sector, using eleven international case-studies to demonstrate how the concept has been applied over the last fifty years.
AB - Globally, consumer co-operation has experienced a difficult period since the 1970s. Large scale failures in France, Germany and Austria were accompanied by loss of market share in the UK (including the failure of the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society and its takeover by its English counterpart). Even in the Nordic countries, where consumer co-operation has always been more robust, new challenges from the non-co-operative sector had to be confronted. How did co-operative organizations in different countries cope with these challenges? What were the processes of strategic renewal that they undertook? How successful were they? These are the key questions that the collection will address, culminating in an analysis by the editors of the effectiveness of strategic renewal in the co-operative sector. This book is a study of strategic renewal in the consumer co-operative sector, using eleven international case-studies to demonstrate how the concept has been applied over the last fifty years.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85174980839&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4324/9781003333838
DO - 10.4324/9781003333838
M3 - Book
AN - SCOPUS:85174980839
SN - 9781032368016
BT - The consumer co-operative sector
PB - Taylor & Francis
CY - New York
ER -