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Multinational expansion of worker cooperatives and their employment practices: Markets, institutions, and politics in Mondragon
(Sage, 2020)
Drawing on qualitative research and longitudinal data on two
Mondragon multinational cooperatives, the authors examine the
multinational expansion of these co-ops and the diffusion of the
cooperative model’s employment ...
The challenges of managing across borders in worker cooperatives: Insights from the Mondragon cooperative group
(Elsevier, 2018-05-23)
This article explores the challenges that worker cooperatives face when they operate and manage people across
borders. Drawing on qualitative research on two Mondragon multinational co-ops based on longitudinal data
and ...
Ownership, governance, and the diffusion of HRM practices in multinational worker cooperatives: Case-study evidence from the Mondragon Group
(Wiley, 2017-07-14)
Drawing on a qualitative study of one Mondragon multinational
worker cooperative (WC) based on longitudinal data and in‐depth
interviews, our research evidences the contradictions that
internationalisation poses in WCs, ...
Corporate governance as a key aspect in the failure of worker cooperatives
(SAGE, 2020)
The article analyses governance difficulties at Fagor Electrodomésticos, for decades the world’s
largest industrial cooperative, and sheds light on how the cooperative model and governance
might have contributed to the ...
Collaborative relationships with customers: generation and protection of innovations
(Emerald, 2017)
[EN]Purpose: To discover the key elements for generating and protecting innovations based on the customer‐supplier relationship in industrial sectors Methodology: Exploratory qualitative study performed using semi‐structured ...
Coopetition and innovation. Lessons from worker cooperatives in the Spanish machine tool industry
(Emerald, 2019)
[EN] Purpose –
This paper aims to investigate how the implementation of the inter-cooperation principle
among Spanish machine-tool cooperatives helps them to coopete–collaborate with
competitors, in their innovation and ...
Mediation effects of trust and contracts on knowledge-sharing and product-innovation: evidence from the European machine tool industry
(Emerald, 2018)
[EN] This paper analyzes the mediating role of contracts and trust on the generation of
product innovations stemming from buyer-supplier knowledge-sharing among the
members of the supply chain. Together with the individual ...
Do Co-ops Speak the Managerial Lingua Franca? An analysis of the Managerial Discourse of Mondragon Cooperatives
(© 2016 Elsevier LtdElsevier, 2016)
[EN] A trend towards conventional managerialism has been identified in cooperative organizations,
and it has been suggested that this is a symptom of the phenomenon of degeneration in
cooperatives. Although managerial ...
Classifying the degree of cooperative multinationality: Case study of a French multinational cooperative.
(Wiley, 2023-07-27)
In recent decades, the largest European worker cooperatives, and those that are the most emblematic in their countries, have been transformed into multinational companies. This article examines workers’-cooperative ...
Is there life after degeneration? The organizational life cycle of cooperatives under a ‘grow-or-die’ dichotomy
(Wiley, 2019-10-16)
This article provides an in-depth, longitudinal analysis combining real-time and retrospective data on a set of Mondragon's industrial cooperatives that are organized as international groups. We examine the life cycle of ...