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Labour Managed Firms in Spain

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  • Alfonso Carlos Morales Gutiérrez

    (ETEA - Universidad de Córdoba)

  • Sonia Martín López

    (soniamartinlopez@ccee.ucm.es)

  • Gustavo Lejarriaga Pérez de las Vacas

    (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

Abstract

There are at least two types of companies: conventional capitalist companies or Profit Maximizing Firms (PMFs) and, on the other hand, companies managed by their workforce or Labour-Managed Firms (LMFs). The entrepreneurial structures in Spain which include this second type are worker cooperatives (cooperativas de trabajo asociado) and public or limited liability worker-owned companies (sociedades laborales). This paper describes how this type of company has evolved using a set of indicators and offers a closer look at some of the reasons which explain the current difficult situation which, as will be shown, can be considered as critical in the case of cooperatives.

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  • Alfonso Carlos Morales Gutiérrez & Sonia Martín López & Gustavo Lejarriaga Pérez de las Vacas, 2008. "Labour Managed Firms in Spain," CIRIEC-España, revista de economía pública, social y cooperativa, CIRIEC-España, issue 62, pages 61-85, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:cic:revcir:y:2008:i:62:p:61-85
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    1. Francisco Javier Pérez Sanz & Ana Gargallo Castel, 2005. "Gestión, desarrollo y aplicación de la responsabilidad social en entidades de economía social: el caso de las cooperativas," CIRIEC-España, revista de economía pública, social y cooperativa, CIRIEC-España, issue 53, pages 305-332, November.
    2. Sune Jansson, 1986. "Swedish Labour-Owned Industrial Firms," Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 57(1), pages 103-116, January.
    3. Patrick Michael Rooney, 1992. "ESOPS, Producer Co-ops, and Traditional Firms: Are They Different?," Journal of Economic Issues, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 26(2), pages 593-603, June.
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    1. Paul Walker, 2016. "Simple Models of a Human-Capital-Based Firm: a Reference Point Approach," Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Springer;Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), vol. 7(1), pages 219-247, March.

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      Keywords

      Labour-Managed Firms; worker cooperatives; worker-owned companies; employment.;
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      JEL classification:

      • J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
      • J54 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - Producer Cooperatives; Labor Managed Firms
      • M41 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Accounting - - - Accounting
      • P13 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - Cooperative Enterprises

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