Solving the underinvestment and degeneration problems of workers' cooperatives: Non-voting and vote-weighted value-added residual-sharing renewable shares (novarrs and vowvarrs)

Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 545-601

  Major, Guy ^a  

^a MERTON COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33847213720     PISSN: 13704788     EISSN: 14678292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8292.1996.tb01409.x     Document Type: Article

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