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Explore the impact of social responsibility, honesty, openness, and caring in cooperative enterprises. Learn how co-op values of self-help, democracy, and solidarity shape successful businesses, challenge conventions, and engage with diverse stakeholders to drive sustainable growth. Discover the role of governance, environmental sustainability, and international cooperation in fostering a brighter future for communities worldwide.
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Presentation by Iain Macdonald ICA Director-General to 14th ICA-Americas Regional Conference, Lima, 20 July 2006 Social responsibility: the base of co-operative success?
« Co-operative Values – a competitive asset in a globalised economy »
In short, honesty, openness, social responsibility and caring for others are values which may be found in all kinds of organisations that they are particularly cogent and undeniable was in co-operative enterprise.”
Social Economy Enterprises • Social Aims • Enterprised Focussed • Local Ownership
Co-operative values: • Self help • Self responsibility • Democracy • Equality • Equity • Solidarity
to challenge conventional UK enterprise by building a commercially successful family of businesses that offers a clear co-operative advantage
re-establishing the co-operative advantage • successful co-operative business and the 21st century • membership, participation and securing the co-operative movement's legacy • effective management for change and development • national, regional and local structures • the social economy and cooperation
Visibility • Among co-operatives themselves! • With media, particularly the business media – international and national • With business generally • To government and policy makers generaly, internationally, regionally, nationally and within industry sectors • To academic and research institutions • To business advisers, accounting/legal etc • To the broader community
Community Building • Environmental Sustainability • Healthy Living • Co-operative Learning • Social Responsibility
Governance • Involvement inthe Community • Managing Human Resources • Protecting the Environment • International Solidarity
« International co-operation as a vehicle for challenging the assumptions and excesses of free market globalisation »