Ce texte propose ici un modele d'analyse de la gestion qui est fonde sur les particularites des organisations du domaine solidaire et qui se pretend utile pour comprendre le fonctionnement de ces organisations. La realite des organisations de l'economie solidaire est complexe et multiforme et...

The authors analyze the tensions in co-operative development by drawing upon the works of the Montréal school of thought on co-operative management, the first contributions of which date to the creation of the Centre for Co-operative management at HEC Montréal in 1975. They suggest that the...

The export of finished products such as wine fulfils one of the objectives of fair trade which is to let the producing countries obtain maximum revenue. The authors studies three organizations that are part of the fair trade wine sector: Los Robles, a sexagenarian winemaking cooperative; El...

The evolution of the collective enterprise may be conceptualized in three phases throwing into relief five strategies for the creation of value. The first corresponds to the emergence of a collective enterprise, an innovation in itself. The second, the spread of the innovation by replication, is...

The authors analyze the tensions in co-operative development by drawing upon the works of the Montréal school of thought on co-operative management, the first contributions of which date to the creation of the Centre for Co-operative management at HEC Montréal in 1975. They suggest that the...

Au-delà de la crise de l’économie capitaliste (ÉC), la perspective de l’économie sociale (ÉS) fondée sur la démocratie, fait figure de phare. Mais pour que le modèle de l’ÉS s’impose, encore faut-il qu’il puisse être aussi efficace économiquement que son concurrent mais sans...