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Ontario co-op movement could use a legislative leg-up

Published: 1 December 2014

Despite member-controlled and community-centric businesses gaining much appeal and generating billions in revenue, laws that govern co-ops in Ontario are strikingly outdated and restrictive.

... Creating a more engaged workforce is increasingly important, argues Henry Mintzberg, the John Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at . “These days there’s more and more mercenary behaviour in businesses,” he says. That, in turn, has a serious impact on employees, “Not just on how productive they are, but how they feel about their company, how they contribute to it.”

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