Challenging the degeneration thesis: the role of democracy in worker cooperatives?Tools Langmead, Kiri (2017) Challenging the degeneration thesis: the role of democracy in worker cooperatives? Journal of Entrpreneurial and Organizational Diversity, 5 (1). pp. 79-98. ISSN 2281-8642 Full text not available from this repository.
Official URL: http://www.euricse.eu/jeod_articles/challenging-the-degeneration-thesis-the-role-of-democracy-in-worker-cooperatives/
AbstractThis paper uses data collected through written narratives, focus groups and participant observation in three small UK worker cooperatives to investigate the role of democracy in maintaining cooperatives’ dual social-economic characteristic and resisting degeneration. More specifically, it adds to limited empirical literature countering the degeneration thesis by arguing that ongoing processes of individual-collective alignment, understood as central to the practice of democracy, help cooperatives to: balance varying and conflicting needs and aims; challenge the assumption underpinning the degeneration thesis; and transform degenerative “risks” into creative and productive spaces where new meanings and practices can be formed.
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