This report examines the relationship between employment and firm returns comparing two distinct entity models, Equity Owned Firms (EOFs) and Co-operative and Mutual Enterprises (CMEs). It identifies significant differences in the employment maintained by both entity models.

This report assesses the socioeconomic weight of the ‘Proximity and Social Economy’ ecosystem and its contribution to a sustainable, innovative and resilient economy and society. The research pursued two interconnected aims: to represent the social economy of today based on current data as well as to identify methodological and operational tools to improve this representation.

Platform cooperatives refer to cooperatives that are directly owned and managed by their members and that use websites and/or mobile apps to sell goods and/or services. This paper provides an overview of employment in platform cooperatives and offers insights on their distinctive features.

Framing the challenge of inclusion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island communities within the co-operative and mutual enterprises (CME) sector in Australia, this report concludes that the sector has a huge opportunity to engage in transmission of the CME business model for the social and economic empowerment of Indigenous Australians.

The Co-op Economy is the only comprehensive report on the UK’s cooperative sector. It reveals that co-ops have become even more valuable to the communities in which they operate during the Covid pandemic.