Mutual, Cooperative and Employee-Owned Businesses in the Asia Pacific

Name: Mutual, Cooperative and Employee-Owned Businesses in the Asia Pacific
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Mutual, Cooperative and Employee-Owned Businesses in the Asia PacificDiversity, Resilience and Sustainable Growth\nAuthor(s): Chris Rowley, Jonathan Michie\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138059795, 978-1138059795\nSynopsis\nThe 25 years leading up to the international financial crisis have been depicted as capitalism unleashed, containing deregulation, privatisation, demutualisation and financialisation. Yet remarkably, given this economic and political context, co-operatives and mutuals appear to have been gaining ground in many countries, albeit modestly, even before the international financial crisis and the resulting global recession, from which the global economy is still only slowly recovering.\n\nThe [tel] international financial crisis called into question how appropriate the shareholder-owned model is, certainly if it is allowed to dominate the financial services sector. However the International Co-o.