The Role of Cooperative Enterprises in the European Economy

Georgeta Ilie

Knowledge Horizons - Economics, 2012, vol. 4, issue 3-4, 56-61

Abstract: The paper reveals a relevant dimension of social economy in Europe: cooperatives. Like many other types of enterprise, cooperatives face the challenge of finding the most efficient means to distribute insufficient resources. But contrasting most other enterprises, cooperatives also need to seek a sustainable stability between members’ needs and economic challenges. The paper discusses issues related with the contributions of cooperative enterprises to poverty reduction, employment generation and social integration, the contributions of cooperative to the EU 2020 strategy and the impact of economic crisis on the cooperative enterprises.

Keywords: Social economy; cooperative enterprises; EU 2020 strategy; economic crisis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J54 M14 P13 Q13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://orizonturi.ucdc.ro/arhiva/2012_khe_3-4_pdf/khe_vol_4_iss_1_2_56to61.pdf (application/pdf)
http://orizonturi.ucdc.ro/arhiva/2012_khe_3-4_pdf/khe_vol_4_iss_1_2_56to61.pdf (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:khe:journl:v:4:y:2012:i:3:4:p:56-61

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Knowledge Horizons - Economics from Faculty of Finance, Banking and Accountancy Bucharest,"Dimitrie Cantemir" Christian University Bucharest Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Adi Sava ().