Rochdale consumer co-operatives in Australia: Decline and survival

Balnave, Nikola; Patmore, Greg

doi:10.1080/00076791.2012.706899

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“…The freedom of HR managers to apply desirable recruitment and selection policies and practices can be severely restricted in worker cooperatives. Nepotism and cronyism in the recruitment of new members have been frequent in different cooperative firms and other collectivistic organizations, from the Israeli Kibbutz (Van den Berghe & Peter, 1988), French industrial and agricultural cooperatives (Juban, Charmettant, & Magne, 2015;Pasquet & Liarte, 2012), and Australian consumer cooperatives (Balnave & Patmore, 2005) to American cooperatives (Rothschild & Whitt, 1986).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…With regard to the internal data, many internal reports on HRM outcomes for extended periods of time were analyzed. More specifically, the results of the last three satisfaction surveys conducted by Fagor Electrodomésticos in 2003, 2005 and longitudinal monthly data on absenteeism for the different business units from 1995 to 2013 were analyzed. We also had access to several internal in-depth analyses of absence management conducted by Fagor's HRM department between 2005 and 2010.…”

Section: Fagor Electrodomésticos Scoop: Summary Profilementioning

confidence: 99%

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Can employee ownership and human resource management policies clash in worker cooperatives? Lessons from a defunct cooperative

Basterretxea

Saizarbitoria

Lertxundi

2019

Human Resource Management

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The article analyzes the interaction between employee ownership, HRM policies and practices, and HRM outcomes in what was the world's biggest industrial worker cooperative for decades, and now defunct, Fagor Electrodomésticos. Using longitudinal internal data and detailed interviews with key stakeholders, this paper sheds light on how employee ownership conditioned HRM policies. HRM outcomes—such as job satisfaction and absenteeism—are also analyzed over a long period of time. Chronic nepotism when recruiting new members, failures in the training policy, impoverished and Taylorist working systems, and reverse dominance hierarchies are analyzed as factors that increased free riding and caused low satisfaction and the disengagement of working members. This case study contributes to the literature on HRM and worker cooperatives as it provides some insights that are rarely found in that literature. It also provides guidance to worker cooperatives about increasing the fit between employee ownership and HRM policies and outcomes.

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Section: Literature Review and Research Questionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Fagor Electrodomésticos Scoop: Summary Profilementioning

confidence: 99%

Can employee ownership and human resource management policies clash in worker cooperatives? Lessons from a defunct cooperative

Basterretxea

Saizarbitoria

Lertxundi

2019

Human Resource Management

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“…Since energy cooperatives in Germany frequently face legislative changes that require flexibility and adaptation, the impact of conflict on such organizations as a whole can be seen as decisive for their future. This assumption is supported by cooperative scholars, who regard the flexibility and adaptability of cooperatives as central for their survival in a constantly changing economic and political environment [100][101][102].…”

Section: Conflict In Energy Cooperativesmentioning

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Renewable energy cooperatives as gatekeepers or facilitators? Recent developments in Germany and a multidisciplinary research agenda

Yildiz

Rommel

Debor

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Energy Research & Social Science

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“…Its members were a group of Rochdale weavers who opened a cooperative shop for their families members to buy quality and reasonably priced foodstuffs as a way to combat low wages, high prices, and poor quality food. Rochdale's long‐term achievement was anchored on its written and religiously followed principles, which currently provide the fundemental principles of all cooperatives globally (Balnave & Patmore, ). From the United Kingdom, consumer cooperatives entered Switzerland (its first consumer cooperative opened in 1851), Germany (1852), Italy (1854), Japan (1879), Brazil (1887), South Africa (1892), and so on.…”

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The cooperative movement in South Africa: Can financial cooperatives become sustainable enterprises?

2019

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The co‐operative movement in South Africa came a long way, but the results of such a long revolution are yet to be seen despite an enabling legislative environment and government incentives which increased their formation from 4,000 in 2004 to 132,000 in 2016. The sustainability of these cooperatives outside government grants is very doubtful, with most of them just appearing on paper without any meaningful economic activity happening on the ground. For cooperatives to be sustainable, they need to work toward full implementation of the cooperative movement principles and values through the bottom‐up approach to cooperative formation by reducing their overdependence on the state. Financial cooperatives in South Africa can become sustainable in their role of addressing the financial market failure at the grassroots as the majority of the population, including the working class, are using informal financial schemes based on social ties as sources of their financial services. Financial cooperatives have a long history as a grassroots movement that has played an important role in addressing socioeconomic challenges facing the marginalized communities around the world in a more sustainable way.

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Rochdale consumer co-operatives in Australia: Decline and survival

Cited by 22 publications

References 8 publications

Can employee ownership and human resource management policies clash in worker cooperatives? Lessons from a defunct cooperative

Can employee ownership and human resource management policies clash in worker cooperatives? Lessons from a defunct cooperative

Renewable energy cooperatives as gatekeepers or facilitators? Recent developments in Germany and a multidisciplinary research agenda

The cooperative movement in South Africa: Can financial cooperatives become sustainable enterprises?

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