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Fast and spurious: How executives capture governance structures to prevent cooperativization

Jean-Pascal Gond
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Bertrand Valiorgue

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Although workers' cooperatives are regarded as credible alternatives to private companies to reform capitalism, scholars have only started to document the struggles inherent to cooperativizationthe process by which private companies transition to cooperative forms. This paper analyses how executives prevent actual cooperativization in practice by shaping and capturing governance structures. Relying on 35 interviews, observations, and focus groups of two private firms having adopted cooperative forms, we document a set of governance practices used by executives to prevent cooperativization: general assembly disempowerment, board neutralisation, and executive committee entrenchment. We then explain how these practices interact to form a spiral of democratic governance prevention that generate spurious workers cooperatives. These results contribute to cooperative studies by explaining the role of executives and governance in preventing cooperativization. Our study
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Emilie Bourlier-Bargues, Jean-Pascal Gond, Bertrand Valiorgue. Fast and spurious: How executives capture governance structures to prevent cooperativization. Human Relations, inPress, ⟨10.1177/00187267221137872⟩. ⟨hal-03828145⟩

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