The potential of co-operatives during the current recession; theorizing comparative advantage

Birchall, Johnston

doi:10.5947/jeod.2013.001

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“…In this context arose the question of the manner in which social economy organizations were able to survive, with many authors considering these organizations to be a response to the social problems caused by the crisis (Stiglitz 2009;Birchall 2013). Pérotin (2006), for example, observed that the creation of cooperatives was largely anti-cyclical.…”

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Do Hybrid Organizational Forms of the Social Economy have a Greater Chance of Surviving? An Examination of the Case of Montreal

Bouchard

Rousselière

2015

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The objective of this article is to contribute to an understanding of the evolution of a population of social economy enterprises faced with the economic crisis, namely by referring to the case of Montreal. We apply a two-step approach. For one, we use an innovative discrete-time survival model that takes spatial heterogeneity into account. In a second step, this model is used to predict the survival of different forms of the social economy, according to various proposed typologies for identifying hybrid organizational forms. It is understood that certain organizational forms (professional social economy) have fared better than others (emerging social economy). Organizations combining several sources of financing and several forms of paid or volunteer work likewise have greater chances of survival.

L’objectif de cet article est de contribuer à une compréhension de l’évolution d’une population d’entreprises d’économie sociale confrontée à la crise économique, en nous appuyant sur l’exemple de Montréal. Nous mobilisons une approche en deux étapes. Nous utilisons un modèle novateur de survie en temps discret tenant compte de l’hétérogénéité spatiale. Ce modèle est ensuite utilisé pour prédire la survie de différentes formes d’économie sociale, suivant différentes typologies proposées identifiant des formes organisationnelles hybrides. On constate que certaines formes organisationnelles (économie sociale professionnelle) ont mieux survécu que d’autres (économie sociale émergente). De même, les organisations combinant plusieurs sources de financement et plusieurs formes de travail salarié ou bénévole ont eu plus de chances de survivre.

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Do Hybrid Organizational Forms of the Social Economy have a Greater Chance of Surviving? An Examination of the Case of Montreal

Bouchard

Rousselière

2015

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“…General discussion and implications Member-customer proximity enables co-ops to thrive, even when other business forms might fail, as in times of crisis (Birchall, 2013;Byrne et al, 2015). This inherent relational proximity, however, is challenged by the core threat of membership "distance", which acts as a relationship poison.…”

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Diagnosing member-customer ostracism in co-operatives and counterpoising its relationship-poisoning effects

Benos

Kalogeras

Ruyter

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If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation.*Related content and download information correct at time of download. Purpose -This paper aims to examine a core member-customer threat in co-operatives (co-ops) by drawing from ostracism research, assessing co-op ostracism's impact on critical membership and relational exchange outcomes and discussing why relationship marketing research needs to pay more attention to the overlooked role of implicit mistreatment forms in customer harm-doing.Design/methodology/approach -Three studies were conducted. In Study 1, ostracism in co-ops was explored, and a measurement scale for co-op ostracism was developed. In Study 2, the core conceptual model was empirically tested with data from members of three different co-ops. In Study 3, a coping strategy was integrated into an extended model and empirically tested with a new sample of co-op members.Findings -Ostracism is present in co-ops and "poisons" crucial relational (and membership) outcomes, despite the presence of other relationship-building or relationship-destroying accounts. Coupling entitativity with cognitive capital attenuates ostracism's impact. -11-2016-0634 The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available on Emerald Insight at: www.emeraldinsight.com/0309-0566.htm Practical implications -Co-op decision makers might use the diagnostic tool developed in the paper to detect ostracism and fight it. Moreover, a novel coping strategy for how co-ops (or other firms) might fend off ostracism threats is offered in the article. Research limitations/implications -Originality/value -The present study illuminates a dark side of a relationally profuse customer context, painting a more complete picture of relationship marketing determinants. Little attention has been given to ostracism as a distinct and important social behaviour in marketing research and to co-ops as a research context.

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“…Table 2 demonstrates that co-operatives and business organizations do not stand simply in opposition in regard to organizational features and values; their division is not clean cut conceptually or practically. The survival of co-operatives likely depends on their ability to compete with other business types (Birchall 2013) with threats to their identity exacerbated in times of economic difficulty or transformation. Somerville (2007) has underlined the potential conflict to co-operative identity that can be generated when the principle of membership ownership and control is abandoned or when the exercise of internal democracy is weakened.…”

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Emergent identity formation and the co-operative: theory building in relation to alternative organizational forms

Nelson

Huybrechts

et al. 2016

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development

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and organizational theory, we use co-operatives to explore social expectations and institutional arrangements around form at the societal, population, and organizational levels using a population ecology framework. We develop a research agenda based on propositions that address specific features of identity formation in less typical forms of organization, including tensions with normative business expectations, engagement with identity audiences, embeddedness in networks and alliances, structural factors influencing identity, and identity ambiguity.3

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The potential of co-operatives during the current recession; theorizing comparative advantage

Cited by 75 publications

References 8 publications

Do Hybrid Organizational Forms of the Social Economy have a Greater Chance of Surviving? An Examination of the Case of Montreal

Do Hybrid Organizational Forms of the Social Economy have a Greater Chance of Surviving? An Examination of the Case of Montreal

Diagnosing member-customer ostracism in co-operatives and counterpoising its relationship-poisoning effects

Emergent identity formation and the co-operative: theory building in relation to alternative organizational forms

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