The cooperative firm: motivation and coordination. An analysis from the economic theory of the firm and the social economy

This paper analyzes both the motivation and the coordination context in the cooperative firm, from the economic theory of the firm and the theory related to social economy, using two framework: 1) the cooperative principles raised by the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA, 2005) and 2) the most...

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Autores principales:	Carmen Marcuello Servós, Pablo Nachar Calderón
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Publicado:	AECOOP Escuela de Estudios Cooperativos 2013
Materias:	Sociedad Cooperativa Economía Social Principios Cooperativos Teoría Económica de la Empresa Economics as a science HB71-74
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:56076f709e074e228450428ba01d541d2021-11-12T13:14:39ZThe cooperative firm: motivation and coordination. An analysis from the economic theory of the firm and the social economy1135-66181885-803110.5209/rev_REVE.2013.v110.41440https://doaj.org/article/56076f709e074e228450428ba01d541d2013-04-01T00:00:00Zhttp://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/REVE/article/view/41440https://doaj.org/toc/1135-6618https://doaj.org/toc/1885-8031This paper analyzes both the motivation and the coordination context in the cooperative firm, from the economic theory of the firm and the theory related to social economy, using two framework: 1) the cooperative principles raised by the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA, 2005) and 2) the most relevant aspects proposed by the economic literature related to the subject. From this emerges an analysis model composed by four dimensions related to: Organizational Governance, Organizational Membership, Obtainment and Utilization of Resources and Internal and environmental relationship, the advantages and disadvantages identified on the cooperative firm coordination and motivation context. We conclude that the cooperative firm is an organizational model that locates the persons in the middle of the economic activity. Likewise, its disadvantages emerge from the consideration of evaluation criteria that don’t always fit to the nature of these organizations. On this way, many of the institutional disadvantages of the cooperative model response to theoretical basis of analysis. This causes the need to extend the perspectives of analysis, including different analysis criteria used to examine the capitalist EnterpriseCarmen Marcuello ServósPablo Nachar CalderónAECOOP Escuela de Estudios CooperativosarticleSociedad CooperativaEconomía SocialPrincipios CooperativosTeoría Económica de la EmpresaEconomics as a scienceHB71-74ENESRevista de Estudios Cooperativos, Vol 110, Iss 0, Pp 192-222 (2013)
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topic	Sociedad Cooperativa Economía Social Principios Cooperativos Teoría Económica de la Empresa Economics as a science HB71-74
spellingShingle	Sociedad Cooperativa Economía Social Principios Cooperativos Teoría Económica de la Empresa Economics as a science HB71-74 Carmen Marcuello Servós Pablo Nachar Calderón The cooperative firm: motivation and coordination. An analysis from the economic theory of the firm and the social economy
description	This paper analyzes both the motivation and the coordination context in the cooperative firm, from the economic theory of the firm and the theory related to social economy, using two framework: 1) the cooperative principles raised by the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA, 2005) and 2) the most relevant aspects proposed by the economic literature related to the subject. From this emerges an analysis model composed by four dimensions related to: Organizational Governance, Organizational Membership, Obtainment and Utilization of Resources and Internal and environmental relationship, the advantages and disadvantages identified on the cooperative firm coordination and motivation context. We conclude that the cooperative firm is an organizational model that locates the persons in the middle of the economic activity. Likewise, its disadvantages emerge from the consideration of evaluation criteria that don’t always fit to the nature of these organizations. On this way, many of the institutional disadvantages of the cooperative model response to theoretical basis of analysis. This causes the need to extend the perspectives of analysis, including different analysis criteria used to examine the capitalist Enterprise
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title	The cooperative firm: motivation and coordination. An analysis from the economic theory of the firm and the social economy
title_short	The cooperative firm: motivation and coordination. An analysis from the economic theory of the firm and the social economy
title_full	The cooperative firm: motivation and coordination. An analysis from the economic theory of the firm and the social economy
title_fullStr	The cooperative firm: motivation and coordination. An analysis from the economic theory of the firm and the social economy
title_full_unstemmed	The cooperative firm: motivation and coordination. An analysis from the economic theory of the firm and the social economy
title_sort	cooperative firm: motivation and coordination. an analysis from the economic theory of the firm and the social economy
publisher	AECOOP Escuela de Estudios Cooperativos
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The cooperative firm: motivation and coordination. An analysis from the economic theory of the firm and the social economy

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