Are cooperatives more productive than investor-owned firms? Cross-industry evidence from Portugal
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- Natalia P. MONTEIRO & Odd Rune STRAUME, 2018. "Are Cooperatives More Productive Than Investor-Owned Firms? Cross-Industry Evidence From Portugal," Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 89(2), pages 377-414, June.
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Keywords
Cooperatives; investor-owned fi rms; productive effiiciency;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
- J54 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - Producer Cooperatives; Labor Managed Firms
- P12 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - Capitalist Enterprises
- P13 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - Cooperative Enterprises
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CSE-2016-06-25 (Economics of Strategic Management)
- NEP-EFF-2016-06-25 (Efficiency and Productivity)
- NEP-HME-2016-06-25 (Heterodox Microeconomics)
- NEP-LAB-2016-06-25 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-NET-2016-06-25 (Network Economics)
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