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100	1	0	_aBallon, Justine _eauthor
245	0	0	_aReconciling the political, social, and economic: The structural challenge of cooperatives. A multifunctional analysis of three Business and Employment Cooperatives
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520			_aAs alternative organizations, cooperatives conduct economic activities with a limited profit-making purpose. Their production not being purely commercial, how can this “beyond” be defined? This article focuses on Business and Employment Cooperatives (BECs), which bring together employee-entrepreneur members. Faced with declining public subsidies and a structurally deficit economic model, they must rethink how to align their political project with sustainable social and economic dynamics. This article examines the socio-productive models of BECs through the revisited concept of multifunctionality, taking into account all the socio-productive activities necessary for their political, economic, and social development. Three cases are examined to identify avenues for analyzing the socio-productive trade-offs that are shaped. The result is a heuristic analysis grid considering four socio-productive functions (market, public, mutualist, and community), which each cooperative combines based on its political project and socio-productive dynamics, leading to an evolving compromise shaped by a democratic process.
786	0		_nResponsible Organization Review | 20 | 1 | 2025-03-01 | p. 98-116 | 1951-0187
856	4	1	_uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-responsible-organization-review-2025-1-page-98?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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