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"The aim of this paper is to analyse individual preferences in relation to different job characteristics. More specifically, this work focuses on the case of employees of cooperative credit banks (CCBs) in Campania and accounts for certain fundamental institutional features: CCBs are designed to pursue specific member interests rather than profit maximization, and most employees are both owners and consumers. The research is conducted by applying a conjoint analysis approach with stated preference data. Novel features of the analysis include the application of this approach to empirical research on worker incentives and the use of a mixed logit model."

"Platform cooperatives, namely, businesses that sell goods or services primarily through a website, mobile app, or protocol and commit to the principles of democratic governance and shared ownership, have lately been proposed as a more sustainable, equitable and, under certain conditions, even efficient alternative to the organizational model of commercial platforms. Accordingly, they have been presented as economic institutions capable of involving all their relevant stakeholders in an extended and inclusive governance structure. Nevertheless, this emerging literature is still characterized by the lack of a holistic and analytic framework connecting the dispersed studies on the topic through the lens of stakeholder theory and detailing strategic complementarities between these different stakeholders. Related to this point, while dealing with the competitive advantages and challenges of platform cooperatives, little reference has been made to the existing debate in governance theory about the advantages and challenges of cooperative firms as compared to capitalist ones. These research gaps motivated our literature review, which is the first comprehensive systematic review specifically focused on this topic. Given the still-emerging character of the research object, our work also makes way for future updates as new contributions are gradually published."

"This article analyses the merits of collective deliberation as a means of achieving ecological and social sustainability of work in enterprises. To this end, I examine the case of a French collective interest cooperative company working towards green transition objectives. This type of cooperative is premised on the participation of all stakeholders (producers, consumers, etc.) in collective deliberation on work. The article analyses the contributions and limits of “holacracy” as a method of organizing work to provide multiple spaces for collective deliberation. I find that the impact of collective deliberation on the sustainability of work depends on the stakeholders involved."

"Notre manière de penser et de pratiquer le management semble à bout de souffle. Nombreux sont ceux qui rêvent de tout plaquer, se sentant étouffer lentement dans des lieux de travail sans vie. Dans ce livre révolutionnaire, Frédéric Laloux ouvre des perspectives étonnantes. Il montre qu'à chaque fois que l'humanité est entrée dans une nouvelle ère de développement, elle a inventé une façon inédite de penser le management. C'est ce qui semble se passer à l'heure actuelle : visible pour ceux qui cherchent à le voir, un nouveau modèle d'organisation est en train d'émerger, porteur de sens, d'enthousiasme et d'authenticité. II ne s'agit pas d'un modèle théorique ou d'une utopie. Reinventing Organizations se base sur une recherche rigoureuse d'organisations pionnières qui fonctionnent déjà sur des schémas novateurs. Si vous êtes dirigeant ou créateur d'entreprise, manager, coach ou consultant, vous trouverez ici de nombreux conseils pratiques, exemples et histoires inspirantes pour imaginer, concrètement, l'étape suivante de votre entreprise."

"The way we manage organizations seems increasingly out of date. Survey after survey shows that a majority of employees feel disengaged from their companies. The epidemic of organizational disillusionment goes way beyond Corporate America-teachers, doctors, and nurses are leaving their professions in record numbers because the way we run schools and hospitals kills their vocation. Government agencies and nonprofits have a noble purpose, but working for these entities often feels soulless and lifeless just the same. All these organizations suffer from power games played at the top and powerlessness at lower levels, from infighting and bureaucracy, from endless meetings and a seemingly never-ending succession of change and cost-cutting programs.



Deep inside, we long for soulful workplaces, for authenticity, community, passion, and purpose. The solution, according to many progressive scholars, lies with more enlightened management. But reality shows that this is not enough. In most cases, the system beats the individual-when managers or leaders go through an inner transformation, they end up leaving their organizations because they no longer feel like putting up with a place that is inhospitable to the deeper longings of their soul.



We need more enlightened leaders, but we need something more: enlightened organizational structures and practices. But is there even such a thing? Can we conceive of enlightened organizations?



In this groundbreaking book, the author shows that every time humanity has shifted to a new stage of consciousness in the past, it has invented a whole new way to structure and run organizations, each time bringing extraordinary breakthroughs in collaboration. A new shift in consciousness is currently underway. Could it help us invent a radically more soulful and purposeful way to run our businesses and nonprofits, schools and hospitals?



The pioneering organizations researched for this book have already "cracked the code." Their founders have fundamentally questioned every aspect of management and have come up with entirely new organizational methods. Even though they operate in very different industries and geographies and did not know of each other's experiments, the structures and practices they have developed are remarkably similar. It's hard not to get excited about this finding: a new organizational model seems to be emerging, and it promises a soulful revolution in the workplace.



"Reinventing Organizations" describes in practical detail how organizations large and small can operate in this new paradigm. Leaders, founders, coaches, and consultants will find this work a joyful handbook, full of insights, examples, and inspiring stories."

"Negli ultimi anni nel nord Italia si sta sviluppando un nuovo fenomeno sociale: una lunga serie di scioperi e vertenze che vede un'inedita forma di soggettivazione politica da parte di una componente per lo più migrante di lavoratori nel settore della logistica. Nel presente articolo gli autori, che stanno indagando questa situazione con tecniche di osservazione partecipante, si propongono qui di analizzare tale fenomeno a partire dalla costruzione di un quadro teorico sul legame tra logistica ed economia contemporanea. In secondo luogo vengono discussi alcuni profili specifici per poter comprendere l'evoluzione di queste lotte: le caratteristiche territoriali nelle quali esse si sono sviluppate e le tipologie di organizzazione del lavoro sia dal punto di vista datoriale che da quello dell'associazione sindacale. Infine vengono presentate alcune ipotesi, elaborate nella ricerca sul campo, sulle motivazioni soggettive che possano spiegare gli eventi in questione. "

"The Mondragon worker-owned and worker-governed cooperatives are an example of the struggle that some alternative work organizations face when dealing with the external pressures of competing in the global economy while at the same time endeavouring to retain their long-held values of workplace democracy. This article analyses the Mondragon cooperative-multinationals with regard to their subsidiaries in China at a time when the cooperatives are undergoing deep internal and external transformations. The study centres on the characteristics of governance and working conditions at the Mondragon subsidiaries in the Kunshan Industrial Park near Shanghai. The article asks whether, from the perspective of China and Chinese workers, there are any substantial differences between the Chinese subsidiaries of Mondragon and those of conventional multinationals. Overall, it concludes that while there are significant challenges inherent in extending the democratic and participative model of the parent cooperatives to their subsidiaries, there are also indications that if the cooperatives can muster the political will to act in accordance with their stated principles, they could potentially become a real if modest force for change in the labour relations of developing economies. "