Investigating the potential of cooperatives to re-embed the economy: a multiple case study of food cooperatives in Belgium
It is now widely acknowledged that the development of conventional capitalist food systems has provoked multiple social, environmental and economic problems which are undermining the sustainability of the agro-food industry. As a response, many bottom-up, solution-oriented initiatives have flourished. Among them, food cooperatives have brought together citizens, producers, entrepreneurs, distributors and other actors to build alternative, sustainable, local food systems along the entire food supply chain. The capacity of these diverse cooperatives to move the economy towards sustainability rem... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | workingPaper |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2018 |
Schlagwörter: | Sciences sociales / Cooperative Enterprises / P13 / Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis / D22 / food cooperatives / cooperative principles / sustainable food / embeddedness / market economy |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27378875 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/288733 |