The cooperative firm has long been championed as a vehicle for democratising the economy, with radical cooperatives dating back to the 1830s. Our paper unites considerations from the study of worker cooperatives with key insights from first generation Fra…on sheds light on two enduring debates within the cooperative literature, the degeneration thesis and the …er thesis. While the degeneration thesis suggests cooperative are ultimately doomed to failure, the spillo… that the experience of democratic control within cooperatives has a progressive function, which pushes beyond the cooperative itself. There has not been agreement within cooperative studies on the validity of either thesis, ye…loring this in conjunction with the literature on cooperatives, we are able to add further weight to the d…of importance placed to date on subjectivity with cooperative studies and argues that if cooperatives are to play a vital role in the democratic transformation of the economy, this is a lacuna which needs to be remedied…
…y aims to explore the behavioral effects of cooperative and competitive board games in four-to-six-y…x weeks, children in groups of four played either cooperative or competitive board games in a between-subj…er each game conducted a task in which children’s cooperative, prosocial, competitive and antisocial behav…ved. Type of board game did not have an effect on cooperative, prosocial or antisocial behavior. Cooperative and competitive board games elicited equal amounts of cooperative and prosocial behavior, which suggest that b…ular was unreliable. Preschoolers enjoyed playing cooperative board games more than competitive board games, which may be one reason to prefer their use.
…r of the West Bank has been shared out by a cooperative Palestinian/Israeli structure called the Joi…sputes over allocations, It was thought that this cooperative model might lead to other forms of cooperation and from there to a lasting peace settlement…n the Palestinians and the Israelis. Consequently cooperation as a policy has been adopted by the donor co…his region are dependent. This study looks at how cooperation in the water sector in the West Bank has man…rent interpretations and what the impacts of that cooperation are on the dynamics of power. It looks both at the tangible gains and losses of cooperation but also about how cooperation makes people feel. Analysis suggests that th…also suggests that Palestinians feel obligated to cooperate, bound by donor stipulations and Israeli coerc…tions in the West Bank. This study concludes that cooperation in the water sector sustains the political status quo, in which the Israeli remains a dominative hegemon, thus limiting the opportunities for peace buildin…
Forming networks of inter-organizational cooperation is vital to firms. Network position and connectedness (the count of interfirm cooperative ties) is correlated with, for example, firms…e advantage (Kay, 1993). Given the importance of cooperative networks, research has turned to the underly…010; Koka et al., 2006). To better understand how cooperative interfirm networks evolve, this article addresses two interrelated objectives. What drives the selection of firms’ network partners over time? What network changes, if any, explain firms’ performance outcomes? These issues are viewed in the context of venture capital firms, and their syndication activity, over time.
The transition to cooperative breeding may alter maternal investment strat…re. Change in optimal investment from solitary to cooperative breeding can be investigated by comparing so…eses in a mainly semelparous system: that social, cooperative breeders, compared to subsocial, solitarily …or bet-hedging. We propose that the transition to cooperative breeding selects for producing few, large of… in phylogenetically distant species and directed cooperatively breeding spiders to invest in quality rather than quantity of offspring.
In the last few decades, cooperation with civil society has been receiving increa…various drivers. These drivers have led to a more cooperative approach in almost all policy fields. Even though cooperation has been receiving increasing attention, exp…ion: “Why do public authorities and civil society cooperate?” Relatively little attention has been given to the practical aspects of cooperation that answer the “How” question: “How do public authorities and civil society cooperate?” In other words, the practical aspects of cooperation are far less well explored. Drawing on desk …relatively neglected side of public-civil society cooperation. This study moves from theory to practice …is is one of the areas where public-civil society cooperation has the potential to make a real difference; however, research in this field is far less well explored. The geographical focus of the research is the local level because local authorities are not only at the front line of receiving refugees but also their integration int…
Heterogeneous wireless networks will play a significant role in providing multiservice connectivity in ITS, and in particular vehicular networks. This paper describes a smart scheduling approach that allows end user nodes to direct packets over the best available wireless access technologies and set priorities for selected services. The performance of this smart scheduler has been simulated in a non-cooperative multi user environment and the results show that, for the prioritised services, the scheduler can provide a lower average packet delay and a higher average packet delivery ratio for all users than a wireless system that selects on signal strength alone.
…lding initiative in the Arctic, the Barents Cooperation. This is an intra-regional initiative that w…he perceived outcomes of the long-running Barents Cooperation in order to assess potentially transferable lessons for the present geopolitical context; and in particular, it aims to identify successes, challenges, and potentially transferable lessons in a time of heightened tension between Russia and Western Europe. Focusing on local and regional decision-makers and organisers directly involved with the initiative in Northern Norway, it asked what their perceptions of cross-border engagement have meant for the Arctic Barents region.
…proach, a central control mechanism enables cooperation-based learning by allowing distributed SON e…f learning method. Specifically, SON entities use cooperative Q-learning and reinforced back-propagation method to acquire and adjust their optimization experience. To evaluate the coverage and capacity performance of RL-FNN, we analyze cell-edge performance and cell-center performance indicators jointly across neighboring cells and specifically consider the difference in load distribution in a given region. The simulation results show that RL-FNN performs significantly better than the best fixed configuration proposed in the literature. Furthermore, this is achieved with significantly lower energy consumption. Finally, since each self-optimization round completes in less than a minute, RL-FNN can meet the need of practical applications of self-optimization in a dynamic environment.
Based on ethnographic research of a large food retail cooperative in New York (the Co-op), this paper raises the research question of whether organizations can cultivate an ethic of responsibility to others and, if so, how this can be secured in everyday working practices? It draws principally on the work of Foucault and especially his later writings on the care of the self and ethics but seeks to link these deliberations to Levinas in identifying responsibility to the Other as prior to identity. Indeed, one message that we seek to convey is that attachments to identities are frequently a stumbling block for developing ethically responsible relations and organizations and this may necessitate some normative control. While recognizing that normative control can easily become oppressive and there were occasional signs of this where staff were watching one another and demanding compliance, our research provides a platform for exploring conversations about alternative forms of organization. We explore how relatio…