Indice/Contents 1.5 Transformation of the companies, changes in the working relations and spin-off 152 1.6 Spin-off as an instrument for creating employment 156 1.7 The spread of the phenomenon, ties, resistance, lack of information 157 1.8 Operational methods of spin-off 160 1.9 The role of the mother company 161 1. 10 Spin-off as an instrument of dynamic management of human resources 162 in the company l.ll Conclusions: why should spin-off be encouraged? 164 Some cases of spin-off in Europe 167 Chapter 2 Company reorganization and the creation of new entrepreneurial resources: what place for spin-off? 175 2.1 The direct enquiry 175 2.2 Those responsible for personnel in companies that are potential mothers of spin-off businesses: the questions and the answers 177 2.3 The entrepreneurs who head the daughter companies born of spin-off processes: the questions the answers 197 2.4 Co-operatives and spin-off: unconventional relationships between existing businesses and new ones 222 2.4.1 When the daughters are not "normal" companies: a group of co-operatives operating for a major manufacturing company 224 2.4.2 Creation of co-operatives by co-operatives? An example 229 ~ V ~