| Description |
1 online resource (292 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction: Where We Stand -- Place, Enterprise, and Community / Brett Fairbairn -- Part 1: Globalization, Autonomy, and Cohesion. Globalization, Co-operatives, and Social Cohesion / William D. Coleman -- "Nuna Is My Body": What Northerners Can Teach about Social Cohesion / Isobel M. Findlay |
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Part 2: Social Enterprises and Networks. "I Felt That I Had Lost Myself": Credit Unions, Economies, and the Construction of Locality / Brett Fairbairn with Rob Dobrohoczki -- Autonomy and Identity: Constraints and Possibilities in Western Canada's Co-operative Retailing System / Jason Heit, Murray Fulton, and Brett Fairbairn -- Social Cohesion in Times of Crisis: Atlantic Canada's Consumers' Community Co-operative / Leslie H. Brown |
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Part 3: New Partnerships and Models. Reclaiming Community: Co-operatives and Sectoral Governance in Quebec Forestry / Patrick Gingras and Mario Carrier -- Rebuilding "Home" in a Transient World: Globalization, Social Exclusion, and Innovations in Co-operative Housing / Mitch Diamantopoulos and Jorge Sousa -- Co-operation Reinvented: New Partnerships in MultiStakeholder Co-operatives / Jean-Pierre Girard and Geneviève Langlois -- "To See Our Communities Come Alive Again with Pride": (Re)Inventing Co-operatives for First Nations' Needs / Lou Hammond Ketilson -- Imagination and the Future: Learning from Social Enterprises / Brett Fairbairn -- Appendix: The Enterprise with Many Names: Establishing a Common Language / Brett Fairbairn |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Cooperative societies -- Canada -- Case studies
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Social entrepreneurship -- Canada -- Case studies
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Community development -- Canada -- Case studies
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General.
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Community development
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Cooperative societies
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Social entrepreneurship
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Canada
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Case studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Fairbairn, Brett, 1959- author, editor.
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Russell, Nora, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780774827904 |
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0774827904 |
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