New Topic Site: Erasmus Centre for Cooperatives (ECC)


<link erim research centres _blank>ECC is a group of people geared towards creating, disseminating, and applying knowledge regarding cooperatives by blending detailed description, informal theory, formal modeling, and empirical analysis in order to contribute to cooperative business practice as well as to science. This asks for bringing different knowledge, from enterprises as well as science, together.

A cooperative is an enterprise owned by a particular group of stakeholders, e.g. many independent suppliers or many independent buyers. The painting by Mondriaan on the previous page illustrates that there are many upstream parties, a downstream party, and a vertical relationship between them. These organizations are usually not stock-listed, provide benefits to members, have democratic procedures for goal setting and decision-making, and have special rules for dealing with capitalization and profit.

The ECC is led by Prof. dr. George Hendrikse, Chair of Economics of Organization. Other members of the ECC are Feng Li and Cherry Liang.

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<link erim research centres _blank>Website ECC