chiara carini: exploring the co-operative economy
DESCRIPTION
Chiara Carini, Euricse at the International Co-operative Alliance Global Conference in Cape Town, November 2013.TRANSCRIPT
Chiara Carini, EuricseBuilding Research Capacity, Cape Town – 3 November 2013
OUTLINE
•Objective of the World Co-operative Monitor project
•Population under study
•Indicators
•Data collection
•Conclusions
OBJECTIVE OF THE
Collecting economic, organizational, and social data about co-operatives worldwide in order to represent
theco-operative sector in its organizational, regional,
and sectoral diversity.
OBJECTIVE OF THE
A tool for the co-operative sector
• Raising the profile of co-operatives within their own industries and countries, as well as internationally;
• Demonstrating the economic and social importance of co-operatives and mutuals; and
• Highlighting good practice and highlighting successful co-operative business models and innovative approaches.
OBJECTIVE OF THE
A tool for researchers
• Building a periodically updated database about the largest co-operatives worldwide;
• Integrating projects aiming at collecting, organizing and analyzing data relating to co-operatives at national, regional or sectoral levels; and
• Creating a network of researchers and experts.
POPULATION UNDER STUDY
2 problems:
• the diversity of national legislation (Roelants, 2009);
• the organizational variety within the co-operative sector(Hansmann, 1988 Zevi et al., 2011; Fici, 2013).
POPULATION UNDER STUDY
INDICATORS
The WCM Metrics Framework structure
INDICATORS
INDICATORS
The World Co-operative Monitor index
• a Composite Indicator Statistical Methodology (CISM) that aggregates a set of single indicators by using weights which are understood to reflect their importance in the index;
• CISM measures multidimensional concepts (competitiveness, wellbeing, environmental sustainability, etc.) which cannot be captured by a single indicator.
DATA COLLECTION
Dual strategy
• Integration of existing databases and rankings;
• Online questionnaire
CONCLUSIONS
• the World Co-operative Monitor project intends to propose an improved methodology for data collection and analysis of co-operatives worldwide;
• In the next future these data can be used to define indicators useful to describe economic and social dimensions of the co-operative movement in each sector, country, area and in the world;
• This presentation showed the methodological issues addressed in the first 2 years of the project. Not all of these issues have yet been solved;
• For ICA and Euricse, it is important to establish collaboration with other research centers.
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