Christina Clamp eBooks
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Shared Services Cooperatives: A Qualitative StudyExploring Applications, Benefits & Potential. E-book. Formato EPUB Christina Clamp - Oak Tree Press, 2026 -
The story of shared services cooperatives is compelling for the breadth and depth of its utility across multiple sectors of the US economy. Shared services cooperatives are member associations formed to meet a variety of institutional needs for economies and efficiencies of scale through collaboration in areas such as purchasing, marketing, processing and distribution. They are organized and operate as for-profit or not-for-profit business entities and appear in a broad array of industry and public service sectors, providing a variety of benefits, services and opportunities today in rural, suburban and urban communities throughout the US. This qualitative study sets out to describe the ways in which shared services cooperatives are organized, who are the members, how shared services cooperatives benefit their members and why the members formed a cooperative as opposed to other forms of collaboration (joint ventures, subsidiaries or collaborative agreements). Shared services cooperatives in all the cases studied have led to long-term impacts in addressing organizational needs. All the cooperatives in this study have effectively served their members’ needs. Whether it was a cooperative designed to enhance competitiveness, or to lower risks, to acquire new sources of funding or to allow the cooperative members to scale up or sustain the organization, the story has been the same. The shared services cooperative works very well as a way to meet these varied needs.
Humanity @ Work & Life - Volume 2New Directions for the Social Economy. E-book. Formato EPUB Christina Clamp - Oak Tree Press, 2025 -
To mark the 2025 International Year of Cooperatives, Volume Two of Humanity@Work&Life will be “Mondragon in the World”-centric.Mondragon has earned the performance right both in this century and the previous one to be considered as the world’s premier, solidarity values-driven, regenerative, ‘living laboratory’ model and prototyping socioeconomic platform rebuilding from wartime rubble to shared prosperity. There is no other industrial cooperative and social economy ecosystem on Planet Earth to match Mondragon’s effective 70-year track record. This model is eclectically and globally exportable as shown in “Humanity@Work&Life” (Oak Tree Press, 2023). Mondragon values leading to mutualist-driven successes prove there is an operational imperative to sustain healing development and inclusive progress in the face of surging global polycrisis chaos. The dire global need for regional and municipal reconstruction blueprints that include Mondragon-inspired ecosystem best practices is greater than ever.ABOUT THE AUTHORShe is a sociology professor and cooperative-economics researcher who spent most of her academic career at Southern New Hampshire University in the United States and has been active in U.S.-based cooperative development organizations and research networks.