Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management have always existed amongst leading business organisations. Information technologies greatly facilitate these factors and constitute a clear opportunity for growth in efficiency and effectiveness. This paper gives a systematic overview of...

The cooperative societies, today, mainly the agricultural ones, take on a great deal of qualities which are not typical of themselves, and they are labelled in the market as ineffective, so they are discredited as companies. In this paper, we are concerned with the study of mutualities,...

This paper analyses the fit between business strategy and human resources strategy, and its implications and effect on performance. A sample of 121 Andalusian co-operatives (small and medium sized firms) is used to evaluate the hypothesis through a questionnaire. Our findings reveal some support...

The substantial changes in the business environment are causing the idea of quality to emerge as one of the most important strategic challenges for companies. Still, however, companies in Castilla-La Mancha, much less worker co-operatives, have not yet discovered quality as a prime competitive...

The aim of the work presented here is to show how the problems of organisation and power represent a serious hindrance on the business development of agricultural co-operatives. It should be pointed out that this work is based on a field study which focuses on studying cooperativism in firms...

This paper presents the results of research into the situation and tendencies of the social economy in Rio Grande do Sul, analysing fundamentally its contribution to the construction of new community spaces and local development. We study the diverse associative and co-operative experiences...

In this study we endeavour to expose the falseness of a certain sense of underlying inferiority in the company model advocated by the social economy. We will do so by describing and analysing certain “recent” management trends whose origins run from the end of the Second World War to the...

The agricultural co-operatives of Río Grande del Sur, in Brasil, have played an important role in improving the business position of farmers in the region. However, in the last decade, many of these co-operatives have had to face significant problems in their business development from the...

The widespread implementation of the Internet, with its various methods of distributing news and promoting and generating debate, has led to very fast growth in systems for participating in decision-making processes for all sorts of people in all sorts of organisations. The handling of...