New perspectives of the cooperative system

Document from the year 2019 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 10, University of Brescia (University of Brescia), language: English, abstract: In this book we outline some relevant aspects about the way cooperative enterprises operate in their own external reference context (market), representing the levers they use to strengthen their management: the primary objective of the paper is, therefore, to draw inspiration from these experiences to be able to assess the possibility of applying experiences and tools in different institutional contexts.

From this point of view, it is clear that a business model strongly oriented towards developing participatory logics, which has always been attentive to environmental and sustainability issues (in a sense anticipating new managerial theories), and which bases a large part of internal management on respect for rules and guidelines that today we define as "organizational well-being", represents an important and very useful experiential front for those who today are equipped to follow the same managerial logics.

This book closes by recalling some considerations on the new challenges that the cooperative world is facing, underlining, once again, the way they are in line with what other companies have to manage. Among these, the most important are those related to the issues of artificial intelligence and the way, even faced with these "innovations", the cooperative world must move in line with its guiding principles and its values.

Cooperation is now an experience in "doing business" that has been consolidated over time, becoming increasingly widespread throughout the world. It is able to adapt both to the different phases that the economic system faces, and to the various challenges that sectoral, organizational and technological innovation impose systematically.

The values on which, for more than one hundred and fifty years, the entrepreneurial experience has been developed with reference to this type of company represent an important element of reflection. They are also a source of learning, for those who want to evaluate the effects that the search for consistent behavior and the application of appropriate management and strategic methods determines in the development of companies with these institutional characteristics.