Les coopératives d'activité et d'emploi (CAE) : un outil juridique au service d'un entrepreneuriat responsable

Stervinou, Sandrine; Noël-Lemaître, Christine

doi:10.3917/mav.020.0065

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“…We can also see that while the number of replications in France has been limited (to less than a hundred), within this movement of CAEs, there are firms that can have many salaried entrepreneurs. Thus, it is possible for the model to bring together large groups of entrepreneurs, as anticipated by the existing research (Stervinou and Noël, 2008, Bost, 2011, Sangiorgio and Veyer, 2008.…”

Section: The Advantages Of the Modelmentioning

confidence: 94%

“…We believe that the CAE model may be a small part of the solution, for the developing as well for as the developed world. Although the CAE model has been described in research papers in French (Bost, 2011, Charles-Pauvers and Schieb-Bienfait, 2010, Sangiorgio and Veyer, 2008, Stervinou and Noël, 2008, case studies and analyses in English remain scarce (Ashta, 2013a(Ashta, , 2015.…”

Section: National and International Contexts For The Development Of Caesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…future unemployment benefits if her idea does not work out and she becomes unemployed again (Stervinou and Noël, 2008).…”

Section: • a Cooperative Solutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Fourth, there are multiple impacts because cooperation develops citizenship, democratic behavior, civic engagement and an ideology of sharing, all of which are important in building social capital and wealth of nations (Putnam, 1995). Fifth, profit accrues to workers who are members and thus shareholders too (Stervinou and Noël, 2008).…”

Section: The Advantages Of the Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Opportunities and Challenges in the Diffusion of Social Innovation: French Cooperatives of Salaried Entrepreneurs

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2017

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This paper on the diffusion of social-organizational innovation examines a relatively new organizational form in France, one created to overcome some of the poverty traps inherent in a welfare state. The object of study is a Cooperative of Activities and Employment (or CAE), a hybrid organization and shared-enterprise model: it is a cooperative where the members are entrepreneurs and salaried employees. The paper uses in-depth interviews as well as drawing from a variety of research literatures to document and interpret advantages and disadvantages of this model. In particular, the paper brings together theoretical and empirical treatments of social innovation, cooperative functioning, and innovation diffusion to address the barriers to and opportunities for widespread adoption. The paper chronicles the development of a new organizational form, helps to broaden the research on cooperatives, and offers policy makers an analysis of the economic and social tensions inherent in creative enterprises such as CAEs.

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Section: The Advantages Of the Modelmentioning

confidence: 94%

Section: National and International Contexts For The Development Of Caesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…future unemployment benefits if her idea does not work out and she becomes unemployed again (Stervinou and Noël, 2008).…”

Section: • a Cooperative Solutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Advantages Of the Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Opportunities and Challenges in the Diffusion of Social Innovation: French Cooperatives of Salaried Entrepreneurs

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2017

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“…In other words, the BECs aim to achieve three objectives. Firstly, by providing assistance with the development and management of an autonomous business activity (their training role), and by mutualizing support functions so as to allow more time and energy for doing the actual job, the cooperative can rightly claim to be a means of helping its members achieve autonomy (Stervinou and Noel, 2008). Secondly, “this legal status is characterized by a higher level of rights and protection compared to similar legal statuses introduced for flexible work forms, such as auto-entrepreneurs and umbrella companies” (Eum, 2017, p. 64).…”

Section: A Combination Of Relations To Assist a Cooperative Projectmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Purpose The increasing number of self-employed workers in France transforms the historical work relationship. In this perspective, the case of entrepreneurs who works in Business and Employment Cooperatives (BECs) with the status of entrepreneur–employee–associate is studied. They combine two legal status of self-employed and employee which were previously legally and institutionally separated. BECs question the forms of relationships governing production and labor. This paper aims to determine to what degree this combination of relationships improves the autonomy of entrepreneurs and reduces the risks of autonomous activity. Design/methodology/approach This qualitative action research combined with a pragmatic approach using abductive reasoning was carried out in three BECs. It is based on participant observations and interviews. Findings The results show that three types of relationships are embedded in the labor relations of cooperative activity: the entrepreneurial relationship, the employment relationship and the associate member relationship. This configuration contributes to achieving autonomy in the organization of labor and the reduction of risks linked to entrepreneurial activity. However, the complexity of the embedded relations, the persistence of asymmetry and the contrast between the rules of cooperatives and companies limit the ambition of BECs. Practical implications They determine the ability of BECs to invent appropriate mechanisms to empower their entrepreneur members. Originality/value This study combines an action research stance with a pluridisciplinary approach. It offers new perspectives for understanding the mutations that modes of production and labor mobilization are going through in a period of change toward a post-Fordist paradigm.

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Innovation Systems in Emerging Economies

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Les coopératives d'activité et d'emploi (CAE) : un outil juridique au service d'un entrepreneuriat responsable

Cited by 19 publications

References 10 publications

Opportunities and Challenges in the Diffusion of Social Innovation: French Cooperatives of Salaried Entrepreneurs

Opportunities and Challenges in the Diffusion of Social Innovation: French Cooperatives of Salaried Entrepreneurs

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