Croatian co-operatives’ story of revival: Overcoming external obstacles
| Autor: | Jasmina Božić, Armano Srbljinović, Ivan Šprajc |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Entrepreneurship
Strategy and Management Institutional development SOCIAL SCIENCES. Sociology co-operatives crony capitalism institutional development qualitative research transitional economies Affect (psychology) Crony capitalism Social dimension Institutional System Market economy Political science DRUŠTVENE ZNANOSTI. Sociologija Qualitative research 0502 economics and business Co-operatives Business and International Management Cronyism Croatian Transitional economies 05 social sciences language.human_language language 050202 agricultural economics & policy 050203 business & management |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Co-operative Organization and Management Volume 7 Issue 2 |
| ISSN: | 2213-297X |
| Popis: | While in many European countries co-operative entrepreneurship manages to fulfill its economic and social functions successfully, in Croatia a large majority of almost 1200 registered co-operatives struggle hard to accomplish in demanding market conditions while sustaining their social dimension and few succeed. Only 19% of co-operatives accounted for 96% of overall income earned by Croatian co-operatives in 2015. We critically examine obstacles related to external legal, policy, infrastructural and other conditions that are either insufficient, completely missing or, if existent, adversely affect co-operatives. The obstacles were indicated by co-operatives themselves in a qualitative research project conducted between September 2017 and March 2018. We offer two possible explanations for the existence of the obstacles: one concerning immaturity of the Croatian institutional system, the other related to cronyism pervading the system. We see bottom-up integration of the co-operative sector, based on the principle of co-operation among co-operatives, as the best way of moving forward. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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