From the ‘Double Nature’ of Cooperation to the Social Economy
Fifty Years of Associationalism1
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6194282 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yair Levi (Schlumberger (Ireland), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 149-163 |
| Publication date | 2006-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Review of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0390-6701 • E-ISSN: 1469-9273 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03906700500485770 |
| OpenAlex | W2005485885 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 5 |
The past 50 years or so have witnessed significant changes in the way of conceiving and practising cooperation. Three major shifts are presented here: (1) from the single to the multi-stakeholder cooperative; (2) from internal to extended mutuality in cooperatives and (3) from the historical ‘double nature’ of cooperation to the social economy. It is argued that these shifts testify of the capability of the cooperative system to adapt to such global trends as privatization, deregulation and ‘tertiarization’ that came in the wake of globalization. Moving from the traditional model of the single stakeholder cooperative based on internal homogeneity and on the identification of the notion of member and user, to a new model of multi-stakeholder organization, broadened the scope of cooperatives yet, at the same time, sharpened the socio-economic tension at the inter-cooperative level. Hence, the need, for cooperatives, to strengthen their links with similar nonprofit organizations as partners in the social economy. Our approach is grounded on a Western European interpretation of cooperatives, although the social economy is recently making strides outside Europe, especially in Canada and Latin America
Deregulation · Economic system · Economics · Economy · Globalization · Interpretation (philosophy) · Latin Americans · Market economy · Political economy · Political science · Public relations · Scope (computer science) · Social economy · Sociology · Stakeholder · Cooperative Studies and Economics · Law · Social and Economic Solidarity · Social Sciences and Governance
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| Citations per year | 0.35 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2025 (17) |
| Highly cited | No |