Anja Niedworok


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Niedworok

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Anja

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0000-0002-0542-4369

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03905 - Brusoni, Stefano / Brusoni, Stefano

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  • Introduction
    Item type: Book Chapter
    Ambühl, Michael; Brusoni, Stefano; Niedworok, Anja; et al. (2024)
    Contributions to Management Science ~ Cooperatives in an Uncertain World: Perspectives from Switzerland and Its Neighbors
    This book explores how cooperatives can and are meeting the challenges of a changing world. While concepts to describe the dire and unpredictable state of our world have proliferated—VUCA (Bennis & Nanus, 2007), poly-crisis (WEF), tipping-point (Lenton et al., 2019), wicked problems (Reinecke & Ansari, 2016), grand societal challenges (Ferraro et al., 2015), to name but a few—scientists across diverse disciplines are clear that the present is a particularly perilous time for our global civilization. Climate change has already begun to impose severe human and financial costs across the world. Digitalization has changed how we do business and relate to one another, in some cases, such as with generative AI, essentially overnight. At the same time, violent conflict and geopolitical tensions are again affecting the lives of millions. Across a host of other social, economic, and ecological themes—such as gender equality, poverty, and deforestation—our progress has stalled, if not reversed, as measured by the Sustainable Development Goals (Gutmann & Gorman, 2022).
  • The Swiss Cooperative Landscape: A Quantitative and Qualitative Overview
    Item type: Book Chapter
    Gutmann, Martin; Niedworok, Anja (2024)
    Contributions to Management Science ~ Cooperatives in an Uncertain World: Perspectives from Switzerland and Its Neighbors
    Cooperatives play an important role in the Swiss society. Swiss cooperatives can be found in cities as well as rural Alpine areas, from nationwide organizations to small, less corporate-like ones. This chapter illustrates the diversity of Swiss cooperatives today through a quantitative and qualitative lens. The first section gives an overview of Swiss cooperatives today in terms of numbers and distribution along geographic groupings, economic activity, size, and economic impact as well as their public perception and recent media resonance. The second part of the chapter sketches how various cooperatives are coping with a challenging and changing economic landscape. This includes a discussion of how large and established cooperatives are evolving, using a case as an example, and an examination of how smaller cooperatives are adapting and sometimes thriving in new, socially critical areas: farming, housing, and energy. Finally, the conclusion summarizes key findings and what the future may hold.
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