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The cooperative was characterized in the first chapter as an alliance designed to achieve certain objectives for the participants—the individual cooperators—within the context of (free) markets.
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van Dijk, G., Sergaki, P., Baourakis, G. (2019). The Added Value of Cooperation. In: The Cooperative Enterprise. Cooperative Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16279-5_2
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