Resisting and Regulating Corporations through Ecologies of Alternative Enterprise: Insurance and Electricity in the US Case

Taking on the Corporate Determinants of Ill-health and Health Inequity: A Scoping Review of Actions to Address Excessive Corporate Power to Protect and Promote the Public’s Health

“…An important strategy to challenge excessive corporate power is to promote and organise alternative modes of business that allow communities to bypass systems of production and distribution dominated by corporations (especially those primarily concerned with the short-term interests of their shareholders). [136][137][138][139] Important examples include co-operatives and mutual enterprises, which are collectively owned by various actors such as consumers or workers, and are often driven by principles including mutual aid, equity, solidarity, and community development. 46 It has been noted that business co-operatives managed and owned by workers, such as Mondragon in the Basque region of Spain and Cooperation Jackson in the U.S, can provide meaningful living wage jobs and foster community development.…”

Multiple entrepreneurial ecosystems? Worker cooperative development in Toronto and Montréal

“…Although scholars in different academic fields use different naming conventions to conceptualize economic alterity, their work affirms that the IOF is not the only productive enterprise model. As noted earlier, a range of "hybrid" or "alternative" enterprise forms exist alongside the IOF, typically dominated by different types of logics than that of the instrumentally rational, profit-maximizing IOF (Battilana and Dorado, 2010;Friedland and Alford, 1991;Hansmann, 1996;Rothschild, 1979;Schneiberg, 2017). Their logics can also vary with respect both in the degree and qualitative nature of their alterity, variably involving "collectivist-democratic" instead of bureaucratic rationality in decision-making, and including pro-social goals alongside commercial ones within their hybrid "institutional logics" (ibid).…”

“…It is unsurprising that WCs are increasingly supported by some form of their own ecosystem. WCs are part of a broader class of productive enterprises, typically called hybrid or alternative enterprises by economic and organizational sociologists (Battilana and Dorado, 2010; Schneiberg, 2017), which operate according to a different logic than IOFs (Friedland and Alford, 1991; Rothschild, 1979), and which face different financing and governance constraints reflecting their “non-capitalist” or “more-than-capitalist” natures (Gibson-Graham and Dombroski, 2020). Accordingly, they likely require ecosystem components that complement and accommodate their logic.…”

Another organization is possible: New directions in research on alternative enterprise

“…Today, in the “2.0” wave of interest in alternative entities (Rothschild, 2016), organizational scholars often label collectivist‐democratic entities as alternative enterprises (G. F. Davis, 2016a, 2016b; Schneiberg, 2013, 2017), because they embody an alternative to traditional organizational forms such as the investor‐owned corporation (ibid). To conceptualize how these entities vary in the nature of their alterity, Chen and Chen (2021) specify four key dimensions to examine.…”

“…Today, in the "2.0" wave of interest in alternative entities (Rothschild, 2016), organizational scholars often label collectivist-democratic entities as alternative enterprises (G. F. Davis, 2016aDavis, , 2016bSchneiberg, 2013Schneiberg, , 2017, because they embody an alternative to traditional organizational forms such as the investor-owned corporation (ibid).…”