Purely for Profit?

Abstract

Many people are looking for a change in their working environment—concerned about such widely divergent problems as job satisfaction, security of employment, the introduction of democratic decision making and the responsibilities of industry and commerce to the wider social spectrum. Such concern is likely to be accelerated in the next decade by changes brought about by micro‐processor technology. However, commercial change is usually the result of entrepreneurial activity, which is often assumed to be a purely capitalistic activity. This article introduces the concept of producers' co‐operatives and highlights the place of entrepreneurship. This has evolved in an unusual way in the Mondragon Co‐operatives of Northern Spain.

Citation

Benson, C. (1980), "Purely for Profit?", Employee Relations, Vol. 2 No. 2, pp. 2-5. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb054944