Reports

It's cooperation, stupid
Why Richard Dawkins, Thomas Hobbes and Milton Friedman got it wrong
March 2012 | Charles Leadbeater in partnership with Co-operatives UK & Institute for Public Policy Research 2012
Imagine you are walking down the street and a stranger stops you to make an unusual proposition. He will give you £100 but on one condition: you have to split the sum with a stranger. If the person you select to split the money with rejects your offer then the deal is off: you have to return all the money to the donor. You stop the next person in the street, explain the situation and make them an offer. What offer would you make? And if you were on the receiving end, what offer would you accept? Download report

Cooperatives Survey NZ
Horizon Research Limited, March 2012
"There is strong interest in, and support for, the cooperative business model. This business type is seen as more preferred and more trusted than the shareholder-owned enterprise model."

Co-op Capitalism: A new economic model from the carnage of the old (Think Piece 6)
Noreena Hertz, Co-operatives UK, March 2012 

Global Business Ownership 2012 - Members and shareholders across the world
Co-Operatives UK, January 2012

The UK Co-operative Economy - Britain's Return to Co-operation 2011
Co-operatives UK

Top 100 - List of Australian Co-operative and Mutual Businesses 2011

Investing in Alternative Economic Futures'
Dame Pauline Green's Inaugural SBA Lecture, delivered on 15 March 2010, Federal Parliament House

The Mutuals Manifesto 2010
Mutuo

The UK Co-operative Economy - A review of Co-operative Enterprise 2010
Co-operatives UK

Shared Ownership in Practice, Findings from case studies of employee and community ownership of public services (public interest research report)
Office for Public Management, 2010

Resilience of the Co-operative Business Model in Times of Crisis
International Labour Organisation (ILO), 2009

Worker Cooperative Toolbox, a guide to co-operative employee ownership
Northcountry Cooperative Foundation, 2006

Co-operative in the 21st Century, The Co-operative Start-up manual
Co-operative Federation of Victoria, 2001