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 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.

• 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
• Rights: openAccess
• License: http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2