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Cooperative Lifecycle Framing—Reinvention or Regeneration and Does It Matter?
The co-operative lifecycle framework has been a very useful concept in depicting the historical lifecycle of co-operatives. It is also particularly helpful in identifying and communicating if a co-operative is on a degenerative trajectory and points to the possibility of choice and re-invention. This paper focuses on this re-invention phase of the lifecycle framework and questions if re-invention is the best concept to use either in theory or practice. The paper explores whether regeneration may be a more promising concept, drawing on regenerative development and relationality literature. This paper concludes with an adaptation of Cook’s co-operative lifecycle framework by incorporating a regenerative enabling capability as a metric for success.
- Authors
Noreen Byrne
- Year
- 2023
- Journal Name
- Sustainability; Co-operating for Change: Roles, Potentials, and Challenges of Cooperatives in the Decade Leading up to the Sustainable Development Goals
- Category
- Journal Article
- Keywords
- co-operative lifecycle; regeneration; relationality
- Full Citation
Byrne, N. (2023) Cooperative Lifecycle Framing—Reinvention or Regeneration and Does It Matter?. Sustainability, 15(7), p.6181.
- Link to Publication
- https://doi.org/10.3390/su15076181