Las redes de sociedades laborales. Un modelo de vinculación entre empresas de economía social en el marco de la cooperación empresarial

The present importance of network collaboration processes between Worker Cooperatives resides in the dual function they are called on to fulfil: A) Minimising the members’ extreme aversion to risk, - due in worker-partners to the abundance of risks, and in capitalists due to the impossibility of controlling their investment -, enabling both circulation of redundant labour among the member companies and creation of multiple separate funds for investment to finance new projects. B) Enabling the Worker Co-operative to access new market segments without losing thereby its nature as an integrating agent in its territorial aspect; that is, enabling delocalisation of business results, but not of the business activity, which remains linked to the community of origin of the workforce to which the Worker Co-operative concedes the status of majority partner.