%0 Journal Article
%T Multi-stakeholder Governance in Cooperative Organizations: Toward a New Framework for Research?
%A Catherine Leviten-Reid
%A Brett Fairbairn
%J Canadian Journal of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research
%D 2011
%I Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing
%X Despite the increasing popularity of multi-stakeholder cooperatives, social-economy researchers largely predict that these organizations will fail. Using a ¡°cost of decision-making¡± approach, these researchers conclude that the governance structure of multi-stakeholder cooperatives makes this organizational model fundamentally untenable. In this paper, we review the empirical evidence available on multi-stakeholder cooperatives, which suggests that different groups of actors are able to govern themselves successfully. Consequently, we argue that the literature that has focused on the management of common pool resources by self-organized groups may be an appropriate body of literature in which to root a research program on these social-economy organizations. / Malgr¨¦ la popularit¨¦ grandissante des coop¨¦ratives ¨¤ multiples intervenants, les chercheurs en ¨¦conomie sociale pr¨¦disent que ces organisations essuieront un ¨¦chec. Grace ¨¤ une m¨¦thode des co ts pour la prise de d¨¦cisions, ces chercheurs en viennent ¨¤ la conclusion que la structure de gouvernance des coop¨¦ratives ¨¤ multiples intervenants, par sa nature, en fait un mod¨¨le organisationnel ind¨¦fendable. Dans cet article, nous examinons les ¨¦l¨¦ments de preuve empiriques disponibles sur les coop¨¦ratives ¨¤ multiples intervenants, qui sugg¨¨rent que diff¨¦rents groups d¡¯actants peuvent r¨¦ussir ¨¤ s¡¯autog¨¦rer. Par cons¨¦quent, nous discutons du fait que la documentation qui porte sur la gestion des ressources communes par les groupes autog¨¦r¨¦s pourrait constituer un corpus appropri¨¦ pour ¨¦tablir un programme de recherche sur ces organisations d¡¯¨¦conomie sociale.
%K Governance
%K Cooperatives
%K Multi-stakeholder / Gouvernance
%K Coop¨¦ratives
%K Coop¨¦ratives de solidarit¨¦
%U http://anserj.ca/anser/index.php/cjnser/article/view/78/24