Waking the Asian Pacific Co-operative Potential

Replete with case studies, Waking the Asian Pacific Co-operative Potential applies a novel theoretical framework to aid in understanding meaningful change in co-operative firms, mutual firms, collectives, and communes, focusing in particular on the underexamined Asia Pacific region. It explores the common, albeit competing, objectives of transformational co-operatives that deliver a range of social benefits and corporative co-ops where the co-operative exhibits the characteristics of a competitive investor firm. The book provides examples of successful co-operatives in eleven countries across the Asia Pacific and reviews the theoretical framework of co-operatives, including issues pertaining to socio-economic, politico-legal, and domestic and international factors.

Waking the Asian Pacific Co-operative Potential provides early-career researchers and graduate students with a systematic resource of co-operatives in the Asia Pacific, highlighting core lessons from case studies regarding the ideal role of co-operatives 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.

• Provides numerous case studies drawn from successful co-operative organizations across the Asia Pacific region
• Advances a theoretical framework to help readers access and understand the reasons for co-operative success in the Asia Pacific region
• Develops tools for practitioners to establish effective co-operatives and restructure them to optimal goals

Early career researchers and graduate students studying co-operatives, mutual banks, credit unions, and related member-owned organization

Part 1: Analytical Framework of Asian Cooperative Models
Why Asian Pacific Co-operative Models
The theoretical construct of co-operative comparative advantage
The Asia Pacific and Co-operative History
Co-operatives and Public Policy
Co-operatives and the ICA Sustainable Development Goals
Asian Cooperatives and Gender Equality
Co-Operatives and Youth in Asia
A theoretical model explaining co-operative trajectory

Part 2: Case Studies of Asian Co-ops, Including Cross-Country Comparison
Agricultural Co-ops
How Small Farmers into Big Market? A Case Study of Agricultural Cooperatives in China
Successful Agricultural Co-operative model in Vietnam: Case study in Van Duc Co-operative
Rajarambapu Patil Co-operative Sugar Factory in India
Korea’s Multipurpose Agricultural Co-operative and the Developmental State: The case of the National Agricultural Co-operative Federation (NACF)
Nepal Multipurpose Cooperative Society Limited
Japan: Co-operatively Facilitating Membership Engagement: Employee Lead Initiatives at JA Hadano
Almondco: an Australian agricultural co-operative success story
Summary

Consumer
The achievement of the Saigon Coop in the retail sector of Viet Nam
NTUC Fairprice And Co-operatives In Singapore
Korea’s Consumer Co-operatives and Civil Society: The cases of iCOOP and Hansalim
Consumer Co-op’s Model in Japan
Summary

Credit Co-ops
Teachers Mutual Bank: An Australian Case Study
Credit Cooperatives: The Case of First Community Credit Cooperative (FICCO) From Resilience to Unlimited Opportunities
Indonesia – KK Credit Union
Sri Lanka SANASA
Vijaya Youth Club Cooperative and Credit Union Saving and Credit Cooperative Company Limited Nepal
Summary

Worker Co-ops
The Socio-Political Environment of Worker Co-operatives:  A Case study on Worker Co-operatives as a Solution to the Issue of  Contractualization in the Philippines
Collectivism as a Strategy for Success in Indian Worker Cooperatives: A Case Study of Transport Cooperative Society, Koppa
ULCCS – the icon of successful Co-operatives in India
Worker co-operatives as a solution to business succession: The case of C-Mac Industries Co-operative in Australia
Korea’s Worker Co-operative and Organizational Transformation:The case of Happy Bridge Co-operative
Development and Current Situation of Japanese Workers Co-operatives
Summary

Part 3: Toward an Asian Scholarship on Co-ops
Toward an  Asian Scholarship for Coops
Conclusion
Epilogue