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So what is a member-owned business? What does it look like? How can we distinguish it from an investor-owned business? The crucial distinction is between a business that is people-centred, and one that is money-centred. This book explores the growing number of companies which use this model and their wider significance in society.
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JOHNSTON BIRCHALL is Professor of Social Policy at the University of Stirling, UK. He studied at Oxford and did his PhD at York University, UK. He spent five years as a housing association manager before returning to academic life to focus for the next 25 years on questions concerning stakeholder participation in co-operatives, mutuals and public service agencies. He has written several books on the subject (with translations into five languages), and has advised UN agencies on co-operative responses to the global economic crisis.
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Book Title: People-Centred Businesses
Book Subtitle: Co-operatives, Mutuals and the Idea of Membership
Authors: Johnston Birchall
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230295292
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Business & Management Collection, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-21718-8Published: 03 November 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-30379-3Published: 03 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-29529-2Published: 02 November 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 227
Topics: Management, Organization, Business Strategy/Leadership, Behavioral/Experimental Economics, International Economics, Development Economics