Introduction: This article is part of a Focus Theme of Methods of Information in Medicine on Health Record Banking. Background: Healthcare is often ineffective and costs are steadily rising. This is in a large part due to the inaccessibility of medical and health data stored in multiple silos. Further more, in most cases molecular differences between individuals that result in different suscept...

This paper reports how a new model of social enterprise—the social cooperative (SCs)—has become instrumental, in the Italian context, in the expansion of the social economy. It underlines the contribution these associations have made toward broadening the concept and standard parameters of volunteer organizations, providing basic social welfare services, and integrating the disadvantaged into t...

Cooperative fishery management assigns management rights, formally or informally, to a group of users. Assigning rights to groups rather than individuals can be advantageous, given the shared, common-pool nature of fish stocks. Efficiency can potentially be improved by coordinating harvests over space and time, providing public good inputs, sharing information and setting quality standards. Man...

Over the past twenty years the theory of the firm, and of organization more generally, has grown into a substantial field of economic research. Yet, peculiarly little attention has been spent on understanding the role of cooperatives and other non-corporate forms of organization. It has simply been assumed that most firms are business corporations and that this is so because having investors ow...

Objective: To analyze the actions of Cooperatives in relation to SDGs context COVID-19 Pandemic. Theoretical framework: For a better understanding research theme question, themes Agenda 2030, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Cooperativism will be briefly substantiated. Method: The study consisted descriptive quantitative research, with application an online questionnaire, via Google For...

Agri-food cooperatives allow farmers to improve their competitiveness and bargaining power. However, the specificities of organizational form, in which owners are decision makers, suppliers, clients, open door conflicts interest. Members’ opportunism comes aftermath this adversely affects cooperatives’ performance. Hence, knowing antecedents these undesirable opportunistic behaviors is an impor...

“Is it possible to identify a regional cooperative model (or models) of the Asia Pacific region?” With 23 case studies across 11 countries and four sectors (agricultural cooperatives, consumer credit cooperatives worker cooperatives), 44 authors "Waking Asian Co-operative Potential" boldly try answer this question. This voluminous book with around 400 pages-a valuable fruit long collective adve...