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Measuring the Organisational Horizontality in Argentinian Software SMEs: The “Worker Ownership – Horizontality of Management” Scale

Based upon economic democracy conceptions, and taking organisational management as its central dimension, the article has a twofold purpose. Firstly, it proposes a conceptual elucidation for “horizontality of management”, a construct that represents the scope and depth of collective participation in the manifold organisational decision-making domains. Secondly, it offers a… Read More

Editorial

Diversity matters, both at the firm and at the macro-economic level. This is the driving mission of JEOD. While the importance of diversity is already quite well recognized in other disciplines as a major source of wellbeing and quality of life, an open discussion on diversity in economics (meaning both… Read More

Cooperative Membership and Strategizing in a Korean Consumer Cooperative Network: The Case of iCOOP

Membership is the foundation of cooperative identity distinguishing member-owned businesses from investor-owned businesses. While previous studies have largely focused on members’ motives and the structures designed to encourage their participation in democratic control and economic contributions, our research explores how consumer cooperatives build and manage networks with diverse interests and… Read More

Employee-Owned Businesses’ Responses During the Pandemic: Economic, Non-Economic Goal and Democratic Resilience and Their Link to Ownership, Control and Benefit

Theoretically informed by the degeneration thesis and explored through the lens of Birchall’s tripartite concept of ownership, control and benefit, this paper investigates the resilience of employee-owned businesses during the pandemic. The originality of this paper lies in the novel incorporation of hybrid EOBs, disbenefit (in the form of debt… Read More

Institutional Design and Cooperative Success: The Case of Producer Cooperatives

I develop typologies to investigate hypotheses on the effects of producer cooperative (PC) support structures and the internal organizational design of individual PCs on success. Evidence, including for a new case, shows that individual PCs typically benefit from strong and well-resourced federations. However, the preferred set-up may vary across industries… Read More

Increasing Scale and Impact in a Brazilian Social Entrepreneurial Initiative

Social entrepreneurship offers innovative solutions to solve social challenges, but it tends to remain small and local. This paper aims at exploring the decision-making processes as an organisation navigates a scaling path, including the internal cracks and tensions in its structure. The enquiry was grounded on an intra-organisational case study,… Read More