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The Transformative Potential of Platform Cooperativism: The Case of CoopCycle

open access: yestripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique
The paper sets out to dissolve a contrast between traditional coop sectoral enclosure, on the one hand, and platform coop diversity, on the other hand, which often resonates with precariousness, marginalisation, fragmentation, whitewashing and ...
Vangelis Papadimitropoulos   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

A economia solidária: Um movimento internacional

open access: yesRevista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 2009
This article shows how a solidarity economy movement has arisen in different national and continental contexts. The diversity of practices embedded in local and international civil society networks should be underlined. Emerging in the last decades, this
Jean-Louis Laville
doaj   +1 more source

The Role of Waste Pickers’ Cooperatives and the Partnership with the Government: case study in the Maceió Urban Waste Recyclers Cooperative - COOPLUM/O Papel das Cooperativas dos Catadores e a Parceria com o Poder Público: estudo de caso na Cooperativa de Recicladores de Lixo Urbano de Maceió – COOPLUM

open access: yesDiversitas Journal, 2020
The article showed the role of recycling cooperatives in Alagoas, having as object of case study the Cooperative of Urban Waste Recyclers of Maceió - COOPLUM. The study starts from a literature review and document analysis.
Elder Henrique Silva Rodrigues de Melo   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Blockchain That Was Not: The Case of Four Cooperative Agroecological Supermarkets

open access: yesFrontiers in Blockchain, 2021
Blockchain is a technology with many applications derived from its properties. This article analyzes the case of 4 cooperative agroecological supermarkets and in what circumstances blockchain is an exciting technology to adopt.
Marc Rocas-Royo
doaj   +1 more source

Entrepreneurial Activism? Platform Cooperativism Between Subversion and Co-optation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Platform cooperativism proposes to create an alternative to the corporate sharing economy based on a model of democratically owned and governed cooperatives.
Sandoval, M.
core   +1 more source

Management and sustainable development in cooperative and social economy enterprises. A literature review on SDGs implementation (2015–2023)

open access: yesAnnals of Public and Cooperative Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract The United Nations defined the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015. As a result, an increasing number of companies have integrated sustainable development practices into their activities with the aim of contributing to the SDGs achievement.
Joan R. Sanchis   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Commons and Cooperatives [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
In the last decade, the commons has become a prevalent theme in discussions about collective but decentralized control over resources. This paper is a preliminary exploration of the potential linkages between commons and cooperatives through a discussion
de Peuter, Greig, Dyer-Witheford, Nick
core   +1 more source

How do collective identities influence sector‐wide digital transformations? Insights from the European cooperative sector

open access: yesEuropean Management Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper applies the multilevel perspective (MLP) theory to investigate how collective identities influence sector‐wide digital transformations, focusing on the cooperative sector in Europe. By employing a wide mix of primary and secondary data from platform and incumbent cooperatives, our analysis showed that collective identities ...
Paolo Gerli, Luca Mora
wiley   +1 more source

Two Narratives of Platform Capitalism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Mainstream economists tend to pride themselves on the discipline\u27s resem­blance to science. But growing concerns about the reproducibility of economic research are undermining that source of legitimacy.
Pasquale, Frank A.
core   +3 more sources

Learned Family on the Educator‐Kibbutzim—Knowledge, Kinship, and Social Transformation as Historical Legacy

open access: yesAnthropology &Education Quarterly, Volume 57, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This article explores how educator‐kibbutzim recruit socialist‐Zionist learning traditions to construct new forms of kinship. Bringing communities of practice theory to new kinship studies, we expand on the role of knowledge in bridging the social/biological.
Lauren Erdreich, Rotem Bar Israel
wiley   +1 more source

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