Customer ownership of public utilities: new wine in old bottles

Pier Angelo Mori

Journal of Entrepreneurial and Organizational Diversity, 2013, vol. 2, issue 1, 54-74

Abstract: Customer ownership of public utilities is presently a marginal phenomenon in quantitative terms, despite its long history. The first customer-owned cooperatives appeared at the turn of the 19th century mostly in the power and water sectors. Their development was later hindered by the municipalisation of local public services, but today new prospects are arising and new interest is growing around them. After reviewing data about the present diffusion of customer-owned providers of public utilities, with a special focus on the European Union, we examine the structural features of the markets for public utilities and the economic reasons why this organizational mode is more likely to expand today than it has in the past.

Keywords: Cooperative enterprises; credit cooperatives (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G21 L31 L44 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (15)

Downloads: (external link)
https://jeodonline.com/jeod_articles/customer-owne ... wine-in-old-bottles/ (application/pdf)

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:trn:csnjrn:v:2:i:1:p:54-74

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Journal of Entrepreneurial and Organizational Diversity from European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Barbara Franchini ().