Reimagining the governance of cooperatives: The dynamics, diffusion, and consequences of governance innovations
细分领域
New theories of democracy and governance
What inspiration can different political theories like agonism (Mouffe 2013), deliberative democracy (Thompson 2008), and republicanism (Pettit 2012) offer to spur innovation in cooperative governance in cooperatives?
When, and under what conditions, can cooperatives adopt emergent organizational governance systems like Holacracy (Robertson 2015) or sociocracy (Rau and KochGonzalez 2018)?
How do political ideologies and cultures ranging from eco-socialism to solarpunk to cypherpunk to anarcho-libertarianism (McDonnell 2021; Swann 2023), shape the governance of new cooperatives?
When, and under what conditions, can cooperatives adopt elements of Indigenous governance systems and principles (Christensen 2020)?
Inputs and processes underpinning governance innovations in cooperatives
When and under what conditions can cooperatives leverage technologies like blockchain (Mannan 2018) and artificial intelligence (Ramos et al. 2023) to improve the democratic character of their governance?
How can we re-imagine representation in cooperative governance through the use of novel selection methods like sortition (Pek 2021) and deliberative mini-publics (Pek 2023)?
How do cooperatives integrate democratic innovations like liquid democracy (Blum and Zuber 2016) and quadratic voting (Posner and Weyl 2015) into their governance?
What values (Hendriks 2002) and ecosystems that can facilitate the successful implementation of democratic governance innovations in cooperatives?
How do cooperatives resist compromising their identity as member-governed entities when they avail themselves of new forms of external financing, such as crowdfunding (Lam and Law 2016)?
How can cooperatives collaborate effectively with national, regional, and municipal government institutions while retaining their autonomy as member-governed entities (Manley 2021)?
How do cooperatives with an international membership use democratic and technological innovations (Olson et al. 2023) to retain their identities as member-governed entities, resist degeneration, and promote regeneration?
Outcomes of governance innovations in cooperatives
What are the various outcomes of different governance innovations across different types of cooperatives in different regions and different industries?
What are the potential unintended (harmful) consequences (Fernández-Martínez et al. 2020) of governance innovations in cooperatives at the individual, group, organizational, and societal levels?
Diffusion of governance innovations among cooperatives and other organizations
How, why, and to what effect do governance innovations diffuse among cooperatives and other organizations like public sector organizations, non-profits, and decentralized autonomous organizations (Boyer 2015; Faqir-Rhazoui et al. 2021; Teixeira et al. 2017)?
