Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name: Alfonso Estragó      
Author-Workplace-Name: Centro de Estudios de Sociología del Trabajo. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Argentina.
Title: Dualidad y disonancia en la gestión de las cooperativas de trabajo  
Abstract: Labor  cooperativism  is  one  of  the  main  exponents  of  Economic  Democracy  in  terms  of  theoretical  elaborations  and  practical  implementations. In this sense, worker cooperatives are conceived as organizations where, stemming from workers’ common ownership, egalitarian  economic  management  is  materialized  based  on  the  principle  “one  person,  one  vote,”  regardless  of  contributed  capital.  However, when it comes to putting this ideal into practice, inconsistencies arise since, although the space for governance and strategic delimitation—the  Meeting  of  members—works  in  this  way,  most  of  the  remaining  areas  of  management  usually  adopt  the  typical  bureaucratic chain of command scheme, as the arrangements in classic authority relations are considered unavoidable elements when it comes to achieving coordination in daily work. This is how the Cooperative Dissonance arises, a concept that refers to the dual and contradictory  nature  of  the  set  of  work  experiences,  ranging  from  the  assembly  meetings  with  democratic  equality  to  the  everyday  work processes with autocracy and inequality in the distribution of decision-making power. The proposition of this dissonance in worker cooperatives’ management, its effects and the possible overcoming approaches represent the main contribution of this article.
Classification-JEL: J54, M00
Keywords: organizational conflict, worker cooperatives, cooperative dissonance, management.
Journal: Ciencias Administrativas
Pages: 85-96
Issue: 17
Number: 9
Year: 2021
Month: January-June
DOI: 10.24215/23143738e078
File-URL: https://revistas.unlp.edu.ar/CADM/article/view/9543
File-Format: Application/pdf
Handle: RePEc:lap:recadm:139