COOPERATION AND TRANSITION: MONDRAGON'S SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, AND MANAGERIAL LESSONS

Abstract

The Mondragon Cooperative Group has emerged as a major world market competitor while at the same time achieving freedom, justice, and equality. This paper examines the Mondragon Group's history and structure. It does so using the economy in society model as derived from social and institutional economics. Enhancing social communication within the group, the model leads us to understanding and better enables cooperatives to achieve their just, humane, and prosperous existence. The lessons of Mondragon challenge basic understandings of Euro‐American economic and management science about what can be. These lessons are examined not only for their import in managing change in transitional economies, but wherever economic liberalism has limited our ability to understand the full range of human experience and capabilities.

Citation

Hogner, R.H. (1993), "COOPERATION AND TRANSITION: MONDRAGON'S SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, AND MANAGERIAL LESSONS", International Journal of Conflict Management, Vol. 4 No. 4, pp. 337-349. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb022732