Mondragon’s cooperativism community paradigm: Observing the roots to rethink the future

Purpose: The article aims at providing reflection with respect to Mondragon’s cooperativism self-managed community background and connects it with Jeremy Rifkin and Henry Mintzberg’s deliberations about economic and community self-management.Description: The article explains the key factors on which...

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Autores:
Loyola Idiakez, Aitzol
Tipo de recurso:
Work document
Fecha de publicación:
2018
Institución:
Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia
Repositorio:
Repositorio UCC
Idioma:
spa
OAI Identifier:
oai:repository.ucc.edu.co:20.500.12494/11815
Acceso en línea:
https://revistas.ucc.edu.co/index.php/co/article/view/2188
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12494/11815
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Summary:Purpose: The article aims at providing reflection with respect to Mondragon’s cooperativism self-managed community background and connects it with Jeremy Rifkin and Henry Mintzberg’s deliberations about economic and community self-management.Description: The article explains the key factors on which Mondragon’s cooperativism community paradigm was built and analyzes its implementation during the first decades of the 20th century.Point of view: The article takes a look at the origins of Mondragon’s cooperative experience; it analyzes how the community ideal that underlay the cooperative movement was put in practice. It’s a historical analysis that makes it possible to rethink the future focusing on the community.Conclusion: The analysis allows concluding that Mondragon’s cooperative movement supposes an attractive perspective to rethink 21st century’s society, just as contemporary authors like J. Rifkin and H. Mintzberg suggest.