Multi-stakeholder Governance in Cooperative Organizations: Toward a New Framework for Research?
Canadian Journal of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research
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Multi-stakeholder Governance in Cooperative Organizations: Toward a New Framework for Research?
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Leviten-Reid, Catherine
Fairbairn, Brett |
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Governance; Cooperatives; Multi-stakeholder / Gouvernance; Coopératives; Coopératives de solidarité
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ABSTRACTDespite the increasing popularity of multi-stakeholder cooperatives, social-economy researchers largely predict that these organizations will fail. Using a “cost of decision-making” approach, these researchers conclude that the governance structure of multi-stakeholder cooperatives makes this organizational model fundamentally untenable. In this paper, we review the empirical evidence available on multi-stakeholder cooperatives, which suggests that different groups of actors are able to govern themselves successfully. Consequently, we argue that the literature that has focused on the management of common pool resources by self-organized groups may be an appropriate body of literature in which to root a research program on these social-economy organizations.RÉSUMÉMalgré la popularité grandissante des coopératives à multiples intervenants, les chercheurs en économie sociale prédisent que ces organisations essuieront un échec. Grâce à une méthode des coûts pour la prise de décisions, ces chercheurs en viennent à la conclusion que la structure de gouvernance des coopératives à multiples intervenants, par sa nature, en fait un modèle organisationnel indéfendable. Dans cet article, nous examinons les éléments de preuve empiriques disponibles sur les coopératives à multiples intervenants, qui suggèrent que différents groups d’actants peuvent réussir à s’autogérer. Par conséquent, nous discutons du fait que la documentation qui porte sur la gestion des ressources communes par les groupes autogérés pourrait constituer un corpus approprié pour établir un programme de recherche sur ces organisations d’économie sociale.
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CCSP Press, Simon Fraser University
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2011-11-28
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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application/pdf
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http://www.anserj.ca/anser/index.php/cjnser/article/view/78
http://hdl.handle.net/10515/sy5z02zk8 10.22230/cjnser.2011v2n2a78 |
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Canadian journal of nonprofit and social economy research; Vol 2, No 2 (2011): International Year of Cooperatives / l’Année internationale des coopératives
1920-9355 |
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eng
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http://www.anserj.ca/anser/index.php/cjnser/article/view/78/24
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