A Mesoeconomic Reading of Cooperative Ecosystems, as a Levers for Social Innovation and Institutional Change

Une lecture mésoéconomique d’écosystèmes coopératifs, comme leviers d'innovation sociale et de changement institutionnel

Justine Ballon and Sylvain Celle ()
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Justine Ballon: LADYSS - Laboratoire Dynamiques Sociales et Recomposition des Espaces - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - UP8 - Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis - UPN - Université Paris Nanterre - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UPCité - Université Paris Cité, HEC Montréal - HEC Montréal
Sylvain Celle: TRIANGLE - Triangle : action, discours, pensée politique et économique - ENS de Lyon - École normale supérieure de Lyon - Université de Lyon - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - IEP Lyon - Sciences Po Lyon - Institut d'études politiques de Lyon - Université de Lyon - UJM - Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: From a historical and contemporary perspective, this article analyses the process of social innovation towards institutional change produced by cooperative ecosystems: these regroupings of cooperatives that organise themselves collectively in a perspective of social transformation. Two French cases are studied: the "Fédération nationale des coopératives de consommation" in the 20th century and the "Licoornes" grouping cooperative societies of collective interests today. By bringing together the fields of social innovation and regulationist mesoeconomics, the aim is to assess the capacity of mesocritical spaces - in this case cooperative ecosystems - to produce institutional changes within a logic of social transformation. Following a systemic, bottom-up and intentional reading of social innovation, in which the environment and governance are key elements of social transformation, this article highlights the regularities that are favourable and unfavourable to this process of institutional change, based on five channels of differentiation-innovation (futurity, work, product-competition, governance and environment).

Keywords: Innovation sociale; Coopérative; Ecosystème; Changement institutionnel / institutional change; Méso échelle (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-11-05
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Published in Interventions Economiques : Papers in Political Economy, 2023, 69, ⟨10.4000/interventionseconomiques.20404⟩

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DOI: 10.4000/interventionseconomiques.20404

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