Reimagining the governance of cooperatives: The dynamics, diffusion, and consequences of governance innovations

Éditeurs invités

• Frédéric Dufays, HEC Liège-Université de Liège
• Johanna Mair, Hertie School
• Morshed Mannan, European University Institute
• Simon Pek, University of Victoria

Synthèse

While society increasingly grapples with pressing social and environmental challenges, trust in modern-day capitalism is eroding. There has been a surge in interest among management and business and society researchers in cooperatives as a promising and influential alternative form of organizing. Cooperatives can help reduce inequality, safeguard workers' interests, confer greater control to members over their personal data, contribute to organizational resilience, and foster more responsible consumption. Cooperatives are expected to operate according to a set of cooperative principles promoted by the International Cooperative Alliance, which include autonomy and independence, cooperation among cooperatives, and democratic member control. Adherence to these principles underpins many of the benefits of cooperatives.

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Thèmes proposés

• Application of new theories of democracy and governance to the governance of cooperatives
• Inputs and processes underpinning governance innovations in cooperatives, including the use of new and emerging technologies
• Multi-layered, intended, and unintended outcomes of governance innovations in cooperatives
• Diffusion of governance innovations among cooperatives and other organizations
• Political theories like agonism, deliberative democracy, and republicanism applied to cooperative governance
• Emergent organizational governance systems such as Holacracy and sociocracy in cooperatives
• Political ideologies and cultures shaping governance of new cooperatives
• Indigenous governance systems and principles in cooperatives
• Leveraging technologies like blockchain and artificial intelligence for democratic governance
• Novel selection methods like sortition and deliberative mini-publics in cooperative representation
• Democratic innovations like liquid democracy and quadratic voting in cooperative governance
• Values and ecosystems facilitating implementation of democratic governance innovations
• Cooperatives resisting compromise of member-governance with external financing like crowdfunding
• Collaboration between cooperatives and government institutions while retaining autonomy
• International cooperatives using democratic and technological innovations to prevent degeneration
• Outcomes of governance innovations across different types of cooperatives, regions, and industries
• Member participation, deliberation, degeneration and regeneration outcomes
• Organizational resilience, innovation capabilities, and competitiveness outcomes
• Board demographics and decision-making styles
• Inequality, climate change, and community resilience outcomes
• Future of work and member control of cooperative data
• Unintended harmful consequences of governance innovations at individual, group, organizational, and societal levels
• Diffusion patterns among cooperatives and other organizations including public sector, non-profits, and decentralized autonomous organizations
• Institutional theory and network theory explaining diffusion of governance innovations
• Translation of governance innovations between cooperatives and other organizations
• Role of apex organizations in diffusing governance innovations
• Political and cultural implications of Global North-South governance innovation transfer