Co-operatives in Australia – Explaining Growth, Decline and Revival

Funding: 2018: $39,530
2019: $57,974
2018: $39,530
2019: $57,974

Project Member(s): Marjanovic, O.

Funding or Partner Organisation: Australian Research Council (ARC Discovery Projects)
Australian Research Council (ARC Discovery Projects)

Start year: 2018

Summary: Co-operatives in Australia: Growth, decline and revival. The project aims to investigate the development of the co-operative business model in Australia before 2012, the UN International Year of Co-operatives. It will construct a Visual Atlas of Australian Co-operatives that charts the clustering, growth, decline and revival of Australian co-operatives, and study Australian agricultural and consumer co-operatives. It will construct a long-term historical framework that explains the growth, decline and revival of the business model of co-operatives. The project aims to help policy makers to enhance consumer choice about healthy food and make Australian agriculture more internationally competitive through the co-operative business model.

Publications:

Patmore, G, Balnave, N & Marjanovic, O 2023, 'Business Co-operatives in Australia: “Unlikely Soil for a Co-operative Movement”', Enterprise & Society, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 149-173.
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Patmore, G, Balnave, N & Marjanovic, O 2021, 'Resistance Is Not Futile: Co-operatives, Demutualization, Agriculture, and Neoliberalism in Australia', Business and Politics, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 510-528.
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Zhu, J & Marjanovic, O 1970, 'A Different Kind of Sharing Economy: A Literature Review of Platform Cooperatives', Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Hwaii (Virtual Conference).
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Patmore, G, Balnave, N & Marjanovic, O 2019, 'Visualising organisations over time and space' in Contemporary Issues in Work and Organisations, Routledge, UK, pp. 143-156.
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Balnave, N, Patmore, G & Marjanovic, O 1970, 'Death, Taxes and Demutualisation: Perspectives from the Australian Visual Atlas Co-operative History Project', 11th Annual Conference of Academic Association of Historians in Australian and New Zealand Business Schools (AAHANZBS), Auckland, NZ.

Marjanovic, O & Zhu, J 1970, 'A Taxonomy of Platform Co-ops: Towards an Understanding of Different Value Creation Mechanisms', 14th International Cooperatives Alliance Asia Pacific Research Conference, Newcastle Australia.

Marjanovic, O, Zhu, J, Krivokapic-Skoko, B & Clifford, L 1970, 'Will The Real Data Coop Stand Up? Data Cooperatives in the Coop Sector - Current Challenges and Future Opportunities', 14th International Co-operative Alliance Asia-Pacific Research Conference, Newcastle Australia.

Zhu, J & Marjanovic, O 1970, 'Understanding Social Impact of Platform Co-ops', 14th International Cooperative Alliance Asia-Pacific Research Conference., Newcastle Australia.

, Contemporary Issues in Work and Organisations, Routledge.
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FOR Codes: Information Systems, Business and Labour History, Expanding Knowledge in the Information and Computing Sciences, Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology, Business and labour history , Expanding knowledge in history, heritage and archaeology

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.