Co-operative principles and the evolution of the ‘dismal science’: The historical interaction between co-operative and mainstream economics

Whyman, Philip B.

doi:10.1080/00076791.2012.706903

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“…This reflects a historical trend towards the marginalisation of academic research into CMEs (Kalmi, 2007), which has been attributed to their ‘hybrid’ nature not fitting comfortably into either the mainstream IOF business model, or the NFPSE environment (Levi & Davis, 2008). Although the CME business model challenges some of the assumptions of mainstream economics, it is an alternative form of organisation that has a long history of contributions to individuals, organisations and communities (Novkovic, 2008; Whyman, 2012; Rowley & Michie, 2014). However, they have not been widely or routinely studied in the management sciences or core business disciplines.…”

Section: Cmes the Social Economy And Social Entrepreneurshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Developing a conceptual framework for the co-operative and mutual enterprise business model

Mazzarol

Clark

Reboud

et al. 2018

Journal of Management & Organization

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The co-operative and mutual enterprise business model represents a unique type of organisation that has a dual purpose focused on both economic and social goals. For nearly two centuries it has played an important role in economic development, job creation and addressing market failures. However, despite its potential importance to economic development it has been largely ignored within the mainstream economics and management literature. This paper provides an overview of the nature of the co-operative and mutual enterprise business model and also proposes a business model framework or ‘canvas’ that can be used for research, teaching and strategic analysis.

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Section: Cmes the Social Economy And Social Entrepreneurshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Developing a conceptual framework for the co-operative and mutual enterprise business model

Mazzarol

Clark

Reboud

et al. 2018

Journal of Management & Organization

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“…It might be a resistance strategy to follow the logic of the dominant discourse in order to make the performance explicable according to its rules and values, but such a move should, in the present case, not be conceptualised as critical resistance. This campaign is not a politics of deviance (Cohen 2004), not a sidestepping of the dominant values of the discourserather, it is a way to construct co-ops as not so deviant after all, in accordance with Whyman's (2012) attempt to include co-ops in mainstream economic history. Instead of critical resistance to neoliberalism, for example by co-opting domination's own strategy to resist emancipatory Wiksell, K. 2017.…”

Section: Concluding Discussion: Campaigning For Cooperatives As Non-cmentioning

confidence: 99%

Campaigning for cooperatives as resistance to neoliberal capitalism

Wiksell¹

2019

Resistance and Emotions

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This article investigates the eventual performance of critical resistance to neoliberal capitalism in the discourse of a marketing campaign that promotes the organisational form of cooperatives. Through discourse analysis, this article shows that the performed resistance activity in the campaign discourse is non-critical resistance since the dominant discourse of neoliberal capitalism is reproduced. The analysis displays that affective and economic articulations are intertwined in resistance through the discursive promotion of cooperation. The article contributes to understandings of cooperation as potential resistance to neoliberal capitalism, and highlights the risk of resistance simultaneously reproducing the power of dominant discourses.

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“…This campaign is not a politics of deviance (Cohen 2004), not a sidestepping of the dominant values of the discourse -rather, it is a way to construct co-ops as not so deviant after all, in accordance with Whyman's (2012) attempt to include co-ops in mainstream economic history. Instead of critical resistance to neoliberalism, for example by co-opting domination's own strategy to resist emancipatory Wiksell, K. 2017.…”

Section: Concluding Discussion: Campaigning For Cooperatives As Non-cmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, other aspects of neoliberal capitalism might simultaneously be reproduced. The cooperative movement thus faces a challenge to advance from the shallow protection of co-ops' ideology against global neoliberalisation into a powerful counterhegemonic struggle that is not merely defensive (Evans 2007 The feebleness of co-ops as resistance is emphasised by Whyman (2012) who shows a historical, close association between cooperation and mainstream economics, despite the widespread understanding that neoclassical economists ignore co-ops in economic theory (Whyman 2012). That co-ops are not something completely different but instead included in mainstream economic theory might be an argument against the resistance potential of cooperation.…”

Section: Previous Research On Cooperatives As Resistancementioning

confidence: 99%