Co-operative Business Consultants

Break Free from Our Systems Prison

A revolutionary co-op friendly  school of management techniques. Why 'normal' management methods mess up co-ops. Paper given to the UK Society of Cooperative Studies 2010.

http://www.cbc.coop/system/files/Break+Free+from+Our+Systems+Prison.doc

Democratic decision making in worker co-operatives

 It's not a love-in!

 Democratic decision making in worker coops.pdf

 The Tyranny of Structurelessness

Why do partnerships and collectives turn nasty? A classic from 1970 sheds some light.
tyranny-of-structurelessness.pdf

The IT Revolution will lead to Democratic Capitalism

The information technology revolution will lead to democratic capitalism, says MIT Professor of Management in 21st Century Corporation.
IT-Revolution.pdf

Democratic Enterprise

And this is what mainstream business gurus mean by Democratic Enterprise. There's a lot of it about, apparently.
Democracy-and-Management.pdf

Active Business Planning

Active research is Learning by Doing. This is Active Business Planning. Better than trying to predict the future from a blank piece of paper.
Active-Business-Planning.pdf

'A New Way to Govern' by Shann Turnbull

A comparison of the hierarchical unitary management of investor-owned businesses with the network governance found in worker owned and controlled businesses.
www.neweconomics.org/gen/z_sys_PublicationDetail.aspx?PID=109

Members' Rights & Responsibilities

Worker co-ops have long tried to nail down the Rights and Responsibilities of Members and Partners.
Here is an example from Suma.