Classifying the degree of cooperative multinationality: case study of a French multinational cooperative

Errasti, Anjel ; Bretos, Ignacio (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Marcuello, Carmen (Universidad de Zaragoza)

Resumen: In recent decades, the largest European worker cooperatives, and those that are the most emblematic in their countries, have been transformed into multinational companies. This article examines workers’‐cooperative multinationality by providing a classifying tool based on the interaction between control rights and return rights held by foreign employees in the subsidiaries of multinational cooperatives. We illustrate our matrix of cooperative multinationality by classifying an internationalized historical cooperative, Up Group (formerly Chèque Déjeuner, SCOP). In the last few decades, the French cooperative Up has become a hybrid multinational player in the employee benefits industry by setting up capitalist subsidiaries both in France and overseas. The case study also reports on Up's innovative attempt to produce a global cooperative or a more democratic multinational enterprise through converting subsidiaries’ employees into associates.

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.1111/apce.12450

Año: 2023

Publicado en: Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics 94, 4 (2023), 1061-1084
ISSN: 1370-4788

Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/S28-23R

Tipo y forma: Article (Published version)

Área (Departamento): Área Organización de Empresas (Dpto. Direcc.Organiza.Empresas)