Cooperatives are enterprises characterised by certain principles, such as cooperation, democratic decision-making, and training that define their entrepreneurial behaviours. Several of these cooperative principles appear to exert a positive influence on the performance of these firms and on the three dimensions that define the entrepreneurial orientation of companies: proactiveness, innovativeness, and risk-taking. This study builds a theoretical model that relates cooperative principles, entrepreneurial orientation, and performance from the perspective of corporate governance and human resource management practices, in order to study the links that may exist between these elements. Using data from a survey on 155 worker cooperatives in the Basque Country (Spain) and applying the partial least squares technique, we find that cooperative principles positively affect the performance of cooperatives, both directly and via entrepreneurial orientation.
This article links two different fields of research, entrepreneurship and cooperatives, and studies whether, depending on the context, differences in terms of the fulfilment of the cooperative philosophy (cooperative essence) and entrepreneurial quality exist. To this aim, a statistical analysis is carried out using data from two Spanish regions: Andalusia and the Basque Country. The results enable us to conclude, firstly, that cooperative essence differs in relation to regional context, but not in relation to entrepreneurial quality. Secondly, cooperative essence and entrepreneurial quality are positively related, suggesting that cooperative essence may be part of the entrepreneurial quality of these kinds of firms.
En este artículo se estudia el papel que pueden desempeñar los emprendimientos sociales en la consecución de un sistema económico mundial más justo. Para ello, se comienza poniendo de manifiesto los problemas esenciales observados en el sistema económico global y la influencia que sobre ellos tiene la separación existente entre ética y economía. Posteriormente, se estudian los rasgos generales de la actividad emprendedora generada por el sistema económico global para, a continuación, explicar de qué forma un tipo específico de emprendimiento, el emprendimiento social, puede propiciar un cambio de paradigma que contribuya a un sistema económico global más justo. Por último, utilizando datos del Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) sobre actividad emprendedora en el mundo se realiza un análisis empírico para mostrar algunas de las diferencias existentes entre los emprendimientos de mercado y los emprendimientos sociales. El fin último de este trabajo es contribuir a que las autoridades económicas se preocupen por la elaboración de políticas que apoyen la creación y consolidación de emprendimientos sociales y que los economistas tomen conciencia de la importancia de enseñar e investigar la Economía desde otra perspectiva.
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