New Co-operatives in China: An Indigenous Model of Social Enterprises

Li Zhao () and Patrick Develtere ()
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Li Zhao: HIVA, Catholic University of Leuven
Patrick Develtere: HIVA, Catholic University of Leuven

No 1001, Working Papers on Social and Co-operative Entrepreneurship from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, HIVA, Cera Centre for Co-operative Entrepreneurship

Abstract: This paper aims to fill the academic gaps in the study of the new co-operative movement in China and its innovative mechanisms, and to get a more comprehensive idea of new co-operatives operating as home-grown Chinese social enterprises, by exploring the dynamic process of co-operative practice and social innovation in rural China. As an alternative to the popularly ideal-co-operative perspective, the paper develops a conceptual model from the perspective of a real-type co-operative concept, by employing a historical neo-institutional perspective combined with power-and-resource-related theory. Using this model it shows how institutional legacies from the past as well as resources and environments in the present can influence and shape co-operative development in rural China. By providing a consistent, systematic analysis with an emphasis on the bottom-up institutional innovation process, the paper helps to explain some of the conceptual and practical difficulties that hamper the understanding of new co-operative development in China.

Keywords: China; Social enterprise; Land-based shareholding co-operative; Real type co-operative model; Path-depency; Resource-depency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N45 N55 O13 P13 P26 P32 P35 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-soc and nep-tra
Date: 2010-01
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