What Makes Mondragon Work
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9256213 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Charles W Sperry (Colorado State University), Charles C Sperry (Colorado State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 345-356 |
| Publication date | 1985-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Review of Social Economy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-6764 • E-ISSN: 1470-1162 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00346768500000036 |
| OpenAlex | W2057154353 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 7 |
It is commonly argued that over the course of economic history producer cooperatives have either failed or been modified to the extent that their structures were no longer consistent with a strict interpreta? tion of cooperative philosophy. The Basque city of Mondragon in north? ern Spain is the geographic nucleus of a group of producer cooperatives that after 28 years stand as a spectacular exception to this generaliza? tion. A total of 70 factories employing over 15,000 cooperative workers, a cooperative bank with 84 branch offices and 300,000 account holders, 43 education cooperatives with 26,000 students, 35 consumer coopera? tives with 70,000 members, plus cooperatives in agriculture (three), industrial services (two), research and development (one), and social security (one) made up the Mondragon group as of 1979. [Thomas, 1982] Mondragon's success is well documented. [See Oakeshott, 1978; Jones and Svejnar, 1982; Thomas and Logan, 1982] At issue here are the reasons behind that success
Agriculture · Archaeology · Business · Economics · Economy · Geography · Management · Political science · Social security · Sociology · Work (physics) · Cooperative Studies and Economics · Engineering · Historical and socio-economic studies of Spain and related regions · Law
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1989 - 2020 (32) |
| Highly cited | No |