Replete with case studies, Waking the Asian Pacific Cooperative Potential applies a novel theoretical framework to aid in understanding meaningful change in cooperative firms, mutual firms, collectives, and communes, focusing in particular on the underexamined Asia Pacific region. It explores the common, albeit competing, objectives of transformational cooperatives that deliver a range of social benefits and corporative coops where the cooperative exhibits the characteristics of a competitive investor firm. The book provides examples of successful cooperatives in eleven countries across the Asia Pacific and reviews the politico-legal, and domestic and international factors.
Waking the Asian Pacific Co-operative Potential provides early-career researchers and graduate students with a systematic resource of cooperatives in the Asia Pacific, highlighting core lessons from case studies regarding the ideal role of cooperatives in a modern economy and on the enabling factors of the role of the state, the market potential for scale-up, the mitigation of poverty, and civil society.
Table of Contents
Part 1: Analytical Framework of Asian Cooperative Models
Why Asian Pacific Cooperative Models
The theoretical construct of cooperative comparative advantage
The Asia Pacific and Cooperative History
Cooperatives and Public Policy
Cooperatives and the ICA Sustainable Development Goals
Asian Cooperatives and Gender Equality
Cooperatives and Youth in Asia
A theoretical model explaining cooperative trajectory
Part 2: Case Studies of Asian Co-ops, Including Cross-Country Comparison
Agricultural Coops
How Small Farmers into Big Markets? A Case Study of Agricultural Cooperatives in China
Successful Agricultural Cooperative model in Vietnam: Case study in Van Duc Cooperative
Rajarambapu Patil Cooperative Sugar Factory in India
Korea's Multipurpose Agricultural Cooperative and the Development State: The case of the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation (NACF)
Nepal Multipurpose Cooperative Society Limited
Japan: Cooperatively Facilitating Membership Engagement: Employee Lead Initiatives at JA Hadano
Almondco: an Australian agricultural cooperative success story
Summary
Consumer
The achievement of the Saigon Coop in the retail sector of Vietnam
NTUC Fairprice And Cooperatives in Singapore
Korea's Consumer Cooperatives and Civil Society: The case of iCOOP and Hansalim
Consumer Coop Model in Japan
Summary
Credit Coops
Teachers Mutual Bank: An Australian Case Study
Credit Cooperatives: The case of First Community Credit Cooperative (FICCO) From Resilience to Unlimited Opportunities
Indonesia - KK Credit Union
Sri Lanka - SANASA
Vijaya Youth Club Cooperative and Credit Union Saving and Credit Cooperative Company Limited Nepal
Summary
Worker Coops
The Socio-Political Environment of Worker Cooperatives: A Case study on Worker Co-operatives as a Solution to the Issue of Contractualization in the Philippines
Collectivism as a Strategy for Success in Indian Worker Cooperatives: A Case Study of Transport Cooperative Society, Koppa
ULCCS - the icon of successful Cooperatives in India
Worker cooperatives as a solution to business succession: The case of C-Mac Industries Cooperative in Australia
Korea's Worker Cooperative and Organizational Transformation: The case of Happy Bridge Cooperative
Development and Current Situation of Japanese Workers Cooperatives
