Worker Cooperatives as Based on First Principles

David Ellerman ()
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David Ellerman: University of California at Riverside

Journal of Entrepreneurial and Organizational Diversity, 2016, vol. 5, issue 1, 20-32

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to go back to the first principles of democracy and private property, and to show that they are violated by the conventional firms based on the employment relations and are satisfied by the legal form of a worker cooperative. The conventional bundle of rights in a corporation is analysed and then shown how it is changed and reparsed in a worker cooperative according to those first principles.

Keywords: Worker cooperatives; Juridical principle of imputing responsibility; Democratic theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J54 P13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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