Organization and Orientation: A Life Cycle Model of French Co-operatives

Eric Batstone
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Eric Batstone: Department of Social and Administrative Studies and Nuffield College, Oxford

Economic and Industrial Democracy, 1983, vol. 4, issue 2, 139-161

Abstract: This paper assesses how far the theses of co-operative degeneration and decline apply to the French experience. After outlining the arguments concerning cooperative failure in terms of market, democratic and labour-oriented terms, the paper shows that a sample of 60 French co-operatives-particularly the more democratic of them-outperformed capitalist enterprises in economic terms and yet still maintained a strong labour orientation. The final section develops a life cycle model of co-operatives which indicates there is not a steady, long-term decline in economic performance, democracy or labour orientation.

Date: 1983
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DOI: 10.1177/0143831X8342002

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