26 May 2023
Australia’s Business Council of Co-operatives and Mutuals (BCCM) has formally launched its framework to measure the value of co-operative businesses in Europe.
Mutual Value Measurement© (MVM), developed by the BCCM in conjunction with Melbourne’s Monash University Business School and Warwick University Business School, was launched overnight at an event at London’s The Shard.
“Valuing the positive impact of co-operatives and mutuals on their members, their customers, their communities, and wider society, is well overdue,” said BCCM CEO Melina Morrison.
Read the full article, European launch for BCCM’s new tool to measure value of co-op businesses, Co-op News, 25 May 2023
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