The Emergence of a Cooperative Amidst Economic Disruption: A Historical Narrative of Amul Coop in India

Abhijit Ghosh () and Abhirup Chakrabarti
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Abhijit Ghosh: Bob Gaglardi School of Business and Economics, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC V2C 0C8, Canada
Abhirup Chakrabarti: Smith School of Business, Queens University, Kingston, ON K7L 2Z8, Canada

Administrative Sciences, 2025, vol. 15, issue 6, 1-21

Abstract: This study presents a process narrative of how cooperatives emerge during periods of economic disruption. Cooperative organizations are pluralistic and embedded in existing local economic contexts. Yet, the role that such organizations play can be pronounced when economic disruption occurs in the absence of well-established institutions to support cooperative ideology. This study uses the Structuration and Panarchy frameworks to examine the dynamics of Amul’s emergence, where individual producers organized against the existing structure of production in a period characterized by reorganization at the broader macro level. The study complements insights from economic and social perspectives while presenting a view of how individuals organize economically in the context of disruption. The narrative broadens the view of when collective action becomes possible and what explains sustained socio-economic value creation from such enterprises.

Keywords: cooperative formation; economic hostility; entrepreneurial dynamism; business history (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L M M0 M1 M10 M11 M12 M14 M15 M16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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