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Organization and Orientation: A Life Cycle Model of French Co-operatives

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  • Eric Batstone

    (Department of Social and Administrative Studies and Nuffield College, Oxford)

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This paper assesses how far the theses of co-operative degeneration and decline apply to the French experience. After outlining the arguments concerning cooperative failure in terms of market, democratic and labour-oriented terms, the paper shows that a sample of 60 French co-operatives-particularly the more democratic of them-outperformed capitalist enterprises in economic terms and yet still maintained a strong labour orientation. The final section develops a life cycle model of co-operatives which indicates there is not a steady, long-term decline in economic performance, democracy or labour orientation.

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  • Eric Batstone, 1983. "Organization and Orientation: A Life Cycle Model of French Co-operatives," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 4(2), pages 139-161, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:ecoind:v:4:y:1983:i:2:p:139-161
    DOI: 10.1177/0143831X8342002
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