{"product_id":"waking-the-asian-pacific-co-operative-morris-altman-9780128166666","title":"Waking the Asian Pacific Co-Operative Potential","description":"\u003cp\u003eReplete with case studies, \u003ci\u003e Waking the Asian Pacific Cooperative Potential\u003c\/i\u003e applies a novel theoretical framework to aid in understanding meaningful change in cooperative firms, mutual firms, collectives, and communes, focusing in particular on the underexamined Asia Pacific region. It explores the common, albeit competing, objectives of transformational cooperatives that deliver a range of social benefits and corporative coops where the cooperative exhibits the characteristics of a competitive investor firm. The book provides examples of successful cooperatives in eleven countries across the Asia Pacific and reviews the theoretical framework of cooperatives, including issues pertaining to socio-economic, politico-legal, and domestic and international factors.\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWaking the Asian Pacific Co-operative Potential provides early-career researchers and graduate students with a systematic resource of cooperatives in the Asia Pacific, highlighting core lessons from case studies regarding the ideal role of cooperatives in a modern economy and on the enabling factors of the role of the state, the market potential for scale-up, the mitigation of poverty, and civil society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Morris Altman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0128166665\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780128166666\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Academic Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/23\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 412\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.56lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.85d","brand":"Morris Altman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48135934279935,"sku":"9780128166666","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_65c63961-3595-4822-98bc-65f8ac0acbd7.jpg?v=1770159410","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/waking-the-asian-pacific-co-operative-morris-altman-9780128166666","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}