Publications
Cooperatives, Territories and Jobs: Twenty experiences of cooperatives active in industry and services across Europe
BUY IT The massive wealth and job destruction caused by the 2008 financial crisis has brought back the focus onto the real economy, job creation and territorial development in public agendas. There seems to be a rediscovery of the fact that employment, provided it is sustainable, is conducive to regional development. Cooperatives, precisely, have a special impact on employment and territorial development, and have proved to be particularly resilient to the crisis, due to their distinctive characteristics. Read more.
Beyond the Crisis: Cooperatives, Work, Finance. Generating Wealth for the Long Term
BUY IT Against the backdrop of the global financial and economic crisis that flared up in 2007/2008, this book reflects the particularly strong resilience of cooperatives and other forms of employee-owned enterprises in the industrial and service sectors. The study also examines how these enterprises have been developing over the last decades. Read more.
Handbook 3: European Union policies and policy processes, Internal market, enterprise and social policies
How does function the EU decision-making process? Are all decisions taken by EU legally binding for Member States and do they have the same impact? What are EU prerogatives when it concerns Member States competences? Those are the question we will try to respond to in this third Handbook. We will also introduce some main EU policies which may have an impact on our enterprises: competition and internal market; enterprise policy and employment and social policies. Read more.
Handbook 2: The open method of coordination
This second handbook analyses the main challenges of the ambitious Lisbon Strategy set up for ten years in 2000 by EU and its Member States. It provides a better understand the tool called open method of coordination (OMC), designed to allow close coordination between the European countries in order to achieve EU common objectives decided in Lisbon. Can OMC really shape national policies and produce effective initiatives? Now that Lisbon strategy has come to an end, which evaluation regarding employment, social cohesion and economic growth can we make of those objectives and commitments decided in 2000 and revised in 2005 (revised Lisbon Strategy)? Read more.
Handbook 1: The European Union institutions and how they function
This first handbook attempts at explaining how EU regulation increasingly impacts on our enterprises, how the various EU institutions function and interact with each other, and how representative organisations like CECOP can interact with them in order to influence the EU legislation and policy agenda. It will also explain why and to what extent, in order to do that, the lobbying effort onto the EU institutions should be made partly from Brussels, and partly from the capitals of the EU Member States where our members are present, and how this should be well coordinated. Read more.
Cooperatives and social enterprises: Governance and normative frameworks
Coordinated by Bruno Roelants (CECOP), with contributions from Felice Scalvini (CECOP, Confcooperative), Roger Spear (EMES Network), Jean Gautier (CGSCOP), Vilma Mazzocco (Federsolidarietà-Confcooperative, Eva Johansson (Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth), Bob Cannell (Cooperatives UK), Pekka Pattiniämi (Coop Finland), Mervyn Wilson, (Cooperative College UK) Antonio Fici (EURICSE), Guy Boucquiaux CECOP). Read more.
