Investor Presentaiton
It is also true that cooperatives in this region did not have to confront themselves with
established big capitalist businesses and had a better chance of success than in places where
capitalist enterprises were prime movers.
The relatively comparable size between coops and capitalist enterprises in Emilia-
Romagna has eased the collaboration among the two types of business, up to the point in
which the national legislation allowing coops to control joint stock companies was put in
place in 1984 as a result of lobbying from the region's coops.
The Emilia-Romagna model of cooperative enterprises is a very peculiar one,
because it avoids separation and marginalization of coops, allowing them to hybridize
the capitalist context in which they are active by making it more social, but also to
absorb the principles of efficiency from it, making coops capable to compete and even
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