Cooperative Lifecycle Framing—Reinvention or Regeneration and Does It Matter?

Noreen Byrne ()
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Noreen Byrne: Centre for Co-Operative Studies, Department of Food Business and Development, University College Cork, T12 CY82 Cork, Ireland

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 7, 1-14

Abstract: The co-operative lifecycle framework has been a very useful concept in depicting the historical lifecycle of co-operatives. It is also particularly helpful in identifying and communicating if a co-operative is on a degenerative trajectory and points to the possibility of choice and re-invention. This paper focuses on this re-invention phase of the lifecycle framework and questions if re-invention is the best concept to use either in theory or practice. The paper explores whether regeneration may be a more promising concept, drawing on regenerative development and relationality literature. This paper concludes with an adaptation of Cook’s co-operative lifecycle framework by incorporating a regenerative enabling capability as a metric for success.

Keywords: co-operative lifecycle; regeneration; relationality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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