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Cooperative Lifecycle Framing—Reinvention or Regeneration and Does It Matter?

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  • Noreen Byrne

    (Centre for Co-Operative Studies, Department of Food Business and Development, University College Cork, T12 CY82 Cork, Ireland)

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The co-operative lifecycle framework has been a very useful concept in depicting the historical lifecycle of co-operatives. It is also particularly helpful in identifying and communicating if a co-operative is on a degenerative trajectory and points to the possibility of choice and re-invention. This paper focuses on this re-invention phase of the lifecycle framework and questions if re-invention is the best concept to use either in theory or practice. The paper explores whether regeneration may be a more promising concept, drawing on regenerative development and relationality literature. This paper concludes with an adaptation of Cook’s co-operative lifecycle framework by incorporating a regenerative enabling capability as a metric for success.

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  • Noreen Byrne, 2023. "Cooperative Lifecycle Framing—Reinvention or Regeneration and Does It Matter?," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(7), pages 1-14, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:15:y:2023:i:7:p:6181-:d:1115402
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