Service cooperative

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Service cooperatives are economic groupings of service providers , which in the legal form of the cooperative benefits for its members on the market trying to achieve. Traditionally known are, for example, taxi cooperatives, in which individual entrepreneurs of the taxi trade a common Taxizentrale organize. But the large cooperatives in the IT industry such as Datev and Denic are also among the service cooperatives . Datev provides IT services for its members from the tax advisory professions and Denic manages the entire inventory of German internet domains for its members from the area of internet providers . Service cooperatives, such as the IT service cooperative JARIVA, offer their members the placement of IT projects at customer companies as a service, thus competing with purely commercial personnel placement . A special form of service cooperatives are assistance cooperatives in which both carers and disabled people run a care company together. Also, media cooperatives can be organized as a service cooperative.