Uniformity in Collective Entrepreneurship: The Case of Food Retail Cooperatives in France

Fabrice Cassou, Gérard Cliquet () and Rozenn Perrigot ()
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Fabrice Cassou: CREM - Centre de recherche en économie et management - UNICAEN - Université de Caen Normandie - NU - Normandie Université - UR - Université de Rennes - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, IRGO - Institut de Recherche en Gestion des Organisations - UB - Université de Bordeaux - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises (IAE) - Bordeaux
Gérard Cliquet: CREM - Centre de recherche en économie et management - UNICAEN - Université de Caen Normandie - NU - Normandie Université - UR - Université de Rennes - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Rozenn Perrigot: CREM - Centre de recherche en économie et management - UNICAEN - Université de Caen Normandie - NU - Normandie Université - UR - Université de Rennes - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: Entrepreneurship can be either individual, collective, or both. Cooperatives and independent associated networks are groups of retail and service stores that pool their means. Curiously, there has been a lack of research on retail cooperatives. The objective of this research is to show how these organizations, whose cooperators have a dual status (they are both customers and co-owners of the cooperative), can face the uniformity challenge as efficiently as franchised networks do. The findings highlight the existence of various centralized, decentralized, and mixed processes. This research suggests a model for managing uniformity in food retail cooperatives.

Keywords: food; cooperative (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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Published in Hendrikse G., Cliquet G., Ehrmann T., Windsperger J. Management and Governance of Networks. Contributions to Management Science, Springer, pp.193-211, 2017, 978-3-319-57275-8. ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-57276-5_11⟩

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-57276-5_11

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