162291 20251017144604.0 doi 10.1515/auk-2025-2001 sideral 144868 ART-2025-144868 eng Errasti, Anjel Mondragon Cooperatives and the Utopian Legacy: Economic Democracy in Global Capitalism 2025 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted Mondragon’s worker-owned-and-governed cooperatives are rooted in the socialist utopian tradition of envisioning alternative economic organizations designed to promote worker well-being, workplace democracy, and community embeddedness. For many years, they have challenged capitalist logic and hierarchical power structures while remaining economically viable and democratically governed, countering the predictions of degeneration theories. However, recent transformation of Mondragon’s largest industrial cooperatives into multinational coopitalist hybrids, maintaining a cooperative core of worker-members while operating capitalist subsidiaries with wage workers lacking membership rights, pose risks to their democratic structures. This paradox highlights the tension between economic survival in global capitalism and cooperative identity. By examining Mondragon’s trajectory, the paper questions whether internationalization can coexist with economic democracy or whether global expansion inevitably compromises cooperative principles, forcing adaptation to market-driven imperatives. Understanding these tensions is crucial for the future of economic democracy and the development of sustainable alternative organizations. info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.es info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Bretos, Ignacio Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-4941-2028 Las Heras, Jon 4012 650 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Direcc.Organiza.Empresas Área Organización de Empresas 47, 1 (2025), 107-130 Analyse und Kritik 0171-5860 675025 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/162291/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 1373115 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/162291/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:162291 articulos driver 2025-10-17-14:14:56 ARTICLE