The paper discusses the mechanisms involved in the establishment of cooperative institutions and their roles. These institutions are based on a pact of indivisibility, agreements regarding resources and employment —and their use, according to coherent distributive rules— in a long-term perspective. Such a pact allows for the establishment of a common-by-contract, corresponding to the creation of a "process fund" needed for the integration of the production processes, the division of the labour and the specialisation of the labour force. Several common types are defined, as separate forms of co-operative enterprises. Particularly, these different forms display their competitive advantages on high contestable markets (agriculture, building, transports, services, etc.). The cooperative commons are the establishment of “public goods” on the filiere which on the one hand, allow for economies of scale (and scope) and on the other hand, cut down transaction costs. The enterprise classification proposal, connected to the different types of commons, gives visibility to the different functional roles of the cooperatives. The empirical work is based on original data related to the 1948-2000 period.

Le virtù dei commons: imprese cooperative e produzione di beni pubblici di filiera / Giovannetti, Enrico. - In: ECONOMIA PUBBLICA. - ISSN 0390-6140. - STAMPA. - 3:(2002), pp. 65-104.

Le virtù dei commons: imprese cooperative e produzione di beni pubblici di filiera

GIOVANNETTI, Enrico
2002

Abstract

The paper discusses the mechanisms involved in the establishment of cooperative institutions and their roles. These institutions are based on a pact of indivisibility, agreements regarding resources and employment —and their use, according to coherent distributive rules— in a long-term perspective. Such a pact allows for the establishment of a common-by-contract, corresponding to the creation of a "process fund" needed for the integration of the production processes, the division of the labour and the specialisation of the labour force. Several common types are defined, as separate forms of co-operative enterprises. Particularly, these different forms display their competitive advantages on high contestable markets (agriculture, building, transports, services, etc.). The cooperative commons are the establishment of “public goods” on the filiere which on the one hand, allow for economies of scale (and scope) and on the other hand, cut down transaction costs. The enterprise classification proposal, connected to the different types of commons, gives visibility to the different functional roles of the cooperatives. The empirical work is based on original data related to the 1948-2000 period.
2002
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65
104
Le virtù dei commons: imprese cooperative e produzione di beni pubblici di filiera / Giovannetti, Enrico. - In: ECONOMIA PUBBLICA. - ISSN 0390-6140. - STAMPA. - 3:(2002), pp. 65-104.
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