Multi-stakeholder Governance in Cooperative Organizations: Toward a New Framework for Research?

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Leviten-Reid, Catherine Fairbairn, Brett
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	ABSTRACT Despite 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. RESUME Malgre la popularite grandissante des cooperatives a multiples intervenants, les chercheurs en economie sociale predisent que ces organisations essuieront un echec. Grâce a une methode des couts pour la prise de decisions, ces chercheurs en viennent a la conclusion que la structure de gouvernance des cooperatives a multiples intervenants, par sa nature, en fait un modele organisationnel indefendable. Dans cet article, nous examinons les elements de preuve empiriques disponibles sur les cooperatives a multiples intervenants, qui suggerent que differents groups d'actants peuvent reussir a s'autogerer. Par consequent, nous discutons du fait que la documentation qui porte sur la gestion des ressources communes par les groupes autogeres pourrait constituer un corpus approprie pour etablir un programme de recherche sur ces organisations d'economie sociale.
Starting Page	25
Ending Page	36
Page Count	12
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
DOI	10.22230/cjnser.2011v2n2a78
Volume Number	2
Alternate Webpage(s)	http://www.anserj.ca/index.php/cjnser/article/download/78/24
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://doi.org/10.22230/cjnser.2011v2n2a78
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article