Les sociétés coopératives de production à la marge de la gouvernance territoriale ? Une analyse à partir de Scop-Scic en régions Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes et Sud-PACA

Cooperatives, and more particularly cooperative societies of production (Scop) and collective interest cooperative societies (Scic), are enjoying a revival of activity in the economic, political and scientific spheres. Research works have multiplied, in particular on governance and management, but the link to the territory of production cooperatives remains under documented. The originality of this article is to question the relations between cooperatives and territorial governance by asking the following question: do production cooperatives (Scop and Scic) participate in territorial governance? Does the fact that production companies have an internal participative dynamic and a particular governance make them singular actors of territorial governance? Based on a qualitative methodology comparing 2 Scop and 3 Scic, we highlight that cooperative companies, despite their singularities, remain at the margin of territorial governance, for three reasons: the great heterogeneity of their relationships with the territory, the predominance of sector and network logics, and finally their still embryonic political work for their recognition.