The three dimensions of the cooperative governance: in search of an unstable balance. The case of the wine cooperatives in Languedoc-Roussillon

Les trois dimensions de la gouvernance coopérative: à la recherche d'un équilibre instable. Le cas des caves coopératives en Languedoc-Roussillon

Louis-Antoine Saïsset () and Jean-Pierre Couderc
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Louis-Antoine Saïsset: UMR MOISA - Marchés, Organisations, Institutions et Stratégies d'Acteurs - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - Montpellier SupAgro - Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques - CIHEAM-IAMM - Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen de Montpellier - CIHEAM - Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - Montpellier SupAgro - Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier

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Abstract: Cooperatives, which are an original organizational mode, face with important restructurings, particularly in the wine-making sector in Languedoc-Roussillon where the ways of governance are in full evolution. The object of our work is to analyze and to characterize this specific governance system, through the qualitative study of 25 interviews with managers of wine producing cooperatives of Languedoc-Roussillon. The main results show the originality of the governing bodies of the agricultural cooperatives, being characterized by complex inter-relations. Besides, through the textual analysis of the retranscriptions of theses interviews, we show that the cooperative governance contains three complementary dimensions, whose importance varies from a cooperative to another: disciplinary dimension, partnership dimension and cognitive one.

Keywords: wine cooperative; Languedoc-Roussillon; governance; performance; cave coopérative; gouvernance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-11-06
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Published in Colloque SFER "Diversité et durabilité des modèmes agricoles coopératifs dans un contexte de crises de la mondialisation", Nov 2012, Bordeaux, France. 24 p

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