Cooperative response to societal and market challenges – the motives and stages of development of Mondragon cooperative model. A case study
Cooperative response to societal and market challenges – the motives and stages of development of Mondragon cooperative model. A case study

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the motives and the development process of the co-operative enterprise Mondragon. The historical overview accompanied by brief description of the co-operative movement and its business activities has been mainly focused on cooperative response to societal and market challenges affecting the enterprise resilience in turbulent environments. The applied methodology is based on retrospective analysis of theoretical resources and annual reports of Mondragon. The research centre MIK [Mondragon Innovation & Knowledge] specializing, inter alia, in cooperativism and entrepreneurship analysis has coordinated the data collection, selection and final interpretation, additionally providing valuable historical facts and updated information. The case study has unveiled the key cooperative actions throughout the Mondragon’s development stages, which can be inspirational in the cross-country mutual learning process with reference to the policy objective no 2 of the Social Business Initiative launched by European Commission to increase the visibility of social economy entities and to identify good practices to be potentially reproduced, aligning social economy development process across countries.

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