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Toward a Social Capital Theory of Cooperative Organisation

Year: 2006

Type: preprint

Abstract: The paper is aimed at developing an approach to an economic rationalisation of cooperative organisation and argues that the latter represents a special, social capital-based, type of organisation in the sense that: 1) it is based on social capital in the same way as market and hierarchy are respectively based on price and authority relation; 2) social capital is the major resource of organisations governed on the basis of cooperative principles. The approach is applied to the following issues: the problem of social orientation of cooperatives; comparative analysis of 'capitalistic' and cooperative organisation; the meaning of cooperative principles.

Source: SSRN Electronic Journal

Author: Vladislav Valentinov

Institution: Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies

Language: English

Topic: Cooperative Studies and Economics

Subfield: Strategy and Management

Field: Business, Management and Accounting

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2260169141

Cites: 22

Cited by: 106

Related to: 10