Bridging co-operation’s communication gap: The Statement on the Co-operative Identity, the sociology of co-operative education’s shifting terrain, and the problem of public opinion

Diamantopoulos, Mitch

doi:10.1016/j.jcom.2021.100161

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“…Given the increasing significance of environmental sustainability as a needed strategy, there arises a proposition to incorporate CE and environmentally-focused values into the principles of the International Cooperative Alliance [98]. This suggestion stems from the current juncture where cooperatives find themselves, necessitating heightened public awareness to accomplish their sustainability objectives [99]. Consequently, a more pronounced emphasis on cooperative enterprises' narrative, recognition, and concerted efforts will become imperative also when tackling environmental sustainability and (concepts of responsible) innovation that is now currently unexplored as identified by this paper.…”

Section: Limitations and Further Researchmentioning

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A Bibliometric Analysis on Cooperatives in Circular Economy and Eco-Innovation Studies

Guerreschi,

Díaz López

2023

Sustainability

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Cooperatives address societal challenges embracing values beyond mere profit-oriented production. Considering the ongoing shift to achieve efficient use of resources and increased circularity, cooperatives should be better equipped to incorporate circular economy (CE) and eco-innovation (EI) into their strategies (compared to regular enterprises). This paper reviews the scholarly literature focusing on the application of CE and EI within cooperative studies with the aim to understand the relationships between these topics, identify the existing scholarly communities, and to observe salient research themes. This study refined the method of van den Hoven and Rubalcaba (2016) to conduct a two-step bibliographic review of documents: a thematic analysis of citation data from Scopus (including a manual review of 16 papers) was followed by a bibliometric analysis of 101 documents from Web of Science (using R-Studio’s Biblioshiny). Our results identified three intellectual clusters of cooperative studies focusing on the downstream of CE: (1) industrial ecology; (2) recycling; and (3) waste management. Our study also revealed an emerging scholarly field focused on cooperatives and CE, and with little attention to EI. These findings aim at catalyzing the integration of cooperatives more effectively into scholarly discussions, suggesting that environmental sustainability should be recognized as an additional principle of the cooperative identity—providing a wider perspective that enhances interest in the research of these topics and their interconnections.

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Section: Limitations and Further Researchmentioning

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A Bibliometric Analysis on Cooperatives in Circular Economy and Eco-Innovation Studies

Guerreschi,

Díaz López

2023

Sustainability

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“…Easily taken for granted in Britain and misunderstood elsewhere, this legacy of popular pedagogy deserves greater scrutiny. For example, while uncritical and ethnocentric celebrations may idealise British co-operation, no other movement publishes an organ with Co-operative News' global reach and longevity (Diamantopoulos, 2021;Webster, 2021). Similarly, while some movements have formalised leadership training -including replicating the UK's Co-operative College -efforts elsewhere have not always succeeded (Shaw, 2011;Woodin & Shaw, 2019).…”

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“…Finally, Britain has recently pioneered co-operative schools (Woodin, 2015) and taken steps toward establishing a degree-granting university (Noble & Ross, 2020). These discursive firewalls against a hostile political economy and media-cultural environment (Diamantopoulos, 2022a;Mangan, 2021) help explain British co-operation's stubborn perseverance, even its "unexpected surge of political and intellectual approval and celebration" (Webster et al, 2012, p. 2). These agencies thus illustrate how educational agitation both continues to animate and elevate that movement; and boost Britons' outsized international influence.…”

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A legacy of ‘propagandist action’: Robert Owen, the paradox of working-class pedagogy, and the making of Britain’s co-operative movement

Diamantopoulos

2023

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What’s the secret of British co-operation’s success? This essay argues that one answer to that question is: adult education. Drawing from cultural hegemony theory and historical literature, it shows that Robert Owen’s revolutionary philosophy of education fired many campaigns and institutional innovations: to dispel “false beliefs”; propagate a “rational social system”; and advance collective aspirations for “self-improvement”. Both an educational visionary and social reformer, Owen’s passion for “propagandist action” thus laid unique discursive foundations for Owenist-socialism’s enduring legacy of popular education. It also drove British co-operation’s emergent counter-hegemony to the investor-owned firm through three overlapping waves: early Owenism’s founding-prophetic tradition, which subordinated co-operative shops to “villages of co-operation”; the local-democratic pedagogy that subsequently emerged around those shops; and the movement-spanning professionalism that defines Britain’s contemporary educational institutions. Accounting for this sustained tradition of educational activism thus helps explain British co-operation’s durability. For example, its robust and wide-ranging present-day educational innovations such as the Co-operative College, Co-operative News, or the Co-operative Party are artefacts of this distinctive legacy. Lessons from the British experience thus illustrate the potential to build on adult education’s evolving promise, with significant conceptual and strategic implications beyond British shores.

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Corporate reporting by cooperatives: Mapping the landscape and identifying determinants

Bodenstein Fouché,

Polo-Garrido

2024

Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics

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Bridging co-operation’s communication gap: The Statement on the Co-operative Identity, the sociology of co-operative education’s shifting terrain, and the problem of public opinion

Cited by 4 publications

References 27 publications

A Bibliometric Analysis on Cooperatives in Circular Economy and Eco-Innovation Studies

A Bibliometric Analysis on Cooperatives in Circular Economy and Eco-Innovation Studies

A legacy of ‘propagandist action’: Robert Owen, the paradox of working-class pedagogy, and the making of Britain’s co-operative movement

Corporate reporting by cooperatives: Mapping the landscape and identifying determinants

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