Challenges in Managing Organizations in the Social, Solidarity & Popular Economy: An Analysis of Three Experiences of Generating Partnership Networks

Authors

Mariana Comellini
Verónica Cortiñas

Synopsis

Factorial is a worker cooperative in Buenos Aires, Argentina, that provides professional
services to cooperatives and actors in the social, solidarity, and popular economy. This
chapter aims to contribute to the debate around company ownership by looking at how
worker cooperatives function in the country and the way their workers form part of the
capital of each cooperative. The joint ownership of business capital in these cooperatives
entails a series of challenges and responsibilities for their workers, which will be
problematized in this paper. In addition, an account is given of three experiences of
cooperative networks in order to show how the creation of these networks can be useful
for thinking about and meeting the challenges involved in managing companies in the
social, solidarity, and popular economy.

Author Biographies

Mariana Comellini

graduated with a degree in Education Sciences from the National University of Quilmes. Scholarship researcher at the Cultural Center for Cooperation.

Verónica Cortiñas

graduated in Sociology from the University of Buenos Aires. Scholarship researcher at the Cultural Center for Cooperation.

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Published

November 29, 2023