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La Société Coopérative de Production (SCOP)

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  • Philippe Pasquet

    (CREOP - Centre de Recherches sur l'Entreprise, les Organisations et le Patrimoine - GIO - Gouvernance des Institutions et des Organisations - UNILIM - Université de Limoges)

  • Sébastien Liarte

    (CREOP - Centre de Recherches sur l'Entreprise, les Organisations et le Patrimoine - GIO - Gouvernance des Institutions et des Organisations - UNILIM - Université de Limoges)

Abstract

The emergence of ethical issues in business has led to renewed interest for the governance mechanisms. Finding its origins in the nineteenth century under the impetus of a utopian socialist thought and sustained by Marxism, the cooperative enterprise (SCOP) is a consequence of this process. Indeed, the SCOP is presented as an ethical type of governance by allowing the empowerment of employees because of the disappearance of informational asymmetries between the members of the organization and a strong reduction of the profit orientation. The aim of this paper is to investigate whether the SCOP is, in practice, an ethical type of governance. The analysis of different cooperative enterprises in France demonstrates that this kind of organization have different specificities in their governance mechanisms that can have negative consequences for employees. More importantly, it is shown that the SCOP can be used by leaders in order to dominate their employees.

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  • Philippe Pasquet & Sébastien Liarte, 2011. "La Société Coopérative de Production (SCOP)," Post-Print hal-00926359, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-00926359
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