Index

Organizational Imaginaries: Tempering Capitalism and Tending to Communities through Cooperatives and Collectivist Democracy

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(2021), "Index", Chen, K.K. and Chen, V.T. (Ed.) Organizational Imaginaries: Tempering Capitalism and Tending to Communities through Cooperatives and Collectivist Democracy (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 72), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 303-311. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X20210000072012

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INDEX

Note: Page numbers followed by “n” indicate notes.

Accountability
, 276, 277–278

Accounting
, 125–126, 131, 176

Ad hoc arrangements
, 71

Affective loyalty
, 11, 35

Alcoholics Anonymous
, 298

Alternative enterprises
, 258

alternative ownership enables mission-sustaining mechanisms
, 276–278

alternative ownership models
, 269–274

alternatively owned banks tend to values imprinted from social movements
, 274–276

formation, values imprinting, and ownership
, 285

ladder of mission-sustaining ownership models
, 281–283

managing contested rationalities in
, 261–265

mission drift, ownership and
, 260

ownership of enterprise
, 265–266

prevent mission drift
, 284

traditionally owned banks struggle to deploy mission-sustaining practices
, 278–279

Alternative high schools
, 293

Alternative organizations
, 114, 116

in Brazil
, 231–253

forms
, 84

and social movements
, 231–233

Alternative ownership models
, 260

embed inclusive board governance mechanisms
, 269–271

enable mission-sustaining mechanisms
, 276–278

member ownership
, 271–272

unrestricted investor ownership
, 273–274

virtual or special shareholder ownership
, 272–273

American Sociological Review (ASR)
, 296

“Anchor institution” approach
, 179

Anger
, 34

Association of Research on Nonprofit and Voluntary Associations (ARNOVA)
, 294

Asymmetry
, 152

AT&T
, 189

Autonomy
, 89

B Corps
, 84

B Lab’s certification criteria
, 87

model
, 283

Banking
, 214

BAUEN Cooperative
, 32–33, 37–40

Black communities
, 175

Black Lives Matter
, 297

Brazil

alternative organizational forms and social movements
, 231–233

collectivist-democratic organizations
, 240–241

ecosystems as multiple strategic action fields
, 233–235

emergence of ecosystem and diffusion of SEEs
, 240

future research
, 250–253

historical context
, 237

initial conditions for emergence of field
, 238

organizing for action
, 244–247

providing glue for action
, 241–244

solidification of field through creation of cultural boundaries
, 238–240

Brazilian Forum for Solidarity Economy (FBES)
, 242

Brazilian Solidarity Economy Movement
, 19, 230, 237, 239

British Academy
, 86

Bureau of Labor Statistics
, 142

Bureaucracy
, 4–6

Bureaucratic hierarchy
, 166

Burning Man
, 13

“Business ontology”
, 105

“Business-like health care” logic
, 147

Calibration
, 246–247

Capitalism
, 4–6, 96, 189

Capitalist Manifesto, The
, 167

Care
, 180

Certified social enterprises
, 16–17

Charismatic leaders
, 14

Cincinnati Union Co-op Initiative
, 168

Citizenship
, 106

Civic engagement
, 189

Civil rights
, 169

Civility
, 103

Classic liberalism
, 88

Co-determination
, 166

Co-op Cincy (see Cincinnati Union Co-op Initiative)

Co-op Exploratory Committee
, 170

activities
, 172–175

Co-op leaders
, 132

Coercive isomorphic pressures
, 130

Collective effervescence
, 33, 35

generating
, 45–48

Collective emotion
, 35–36

“Collective emotional labor”
, 42

Collective organizations
, 293

Collective ownership
, 117

Collectivist-democratic enterprises
, 4

Collectivist-democratic organizations
, 3–4, 8, 10, 11–16, 19, 33, 35, 56, 84, 114, 230, 240–241, 258, 293–297

adaptation and opposition
, 116–118

between cooperation and coercion
, 130–132

cooperatives
, 114–115

emancipating work in
, 57

food co-op field
, 118–119

nurturing craft ethics
, 66–71

quasi-compromises
, 71–73

remain local
, 128–130

setting norms through support
, 121–128

sociology of worth in workplace
, 58–60

status of
, 20

taming rationalization in
, 63–66

Collectivist-democratic practices
, 7, 10–11

Columinate
, (see CDS)

Combahee River Collective Statement (1977)
, 9

Commitment and Community
, 296

Common Cooperative Financial Statement
, 125

Communal identity
, 88

Communitarian elements of employee ownership
, 92–102

Community newspaper
, 293

Community banks
, 192–194, 205–215

FDIC coding of
, 222n4

Community development financial institution (CDFI)
, 280, 283

Community Service Society (CSS)
, 142

Congruent isomorphism
, 117

Consumer cooperatives
, 272

consumer-owned firms
, 18

Contemporary organizational scholars
, 9

Cooperative banks
, 272

Cooperative Home Care Associates (CHCA)
, 142, 152, 164, 170–172

CHCA–1199SEIU collaboration
, 146, 149–155

helping CHCA–1199SEIU collaboration succeed
, 155–157

home healthcare
, 149

understanding multi-organizational hybridity through CHCA–1199SEIU case
, 157–159

Cooperative(s)
, 84, 114–115, 142, 150, 216, 231

commonwealth approach
, 20

conversion
, 36–37

model
, 298

movement
, 57

organizational form
, 116, 130

ownership model
, 263

processes
, 61

shared missions
, 143–145

Cooperators
, 56, 65, 114

“Cooperators generale”
, 120

Corporate social responsibility approaches
, 258

Corporations and critique of shareholder capitalism
, 85–86

Costs and benefits of ownership
, 265–266

Craft ethics
, 56

nurturing
, 66–71

Creativity
, 69

Credit unions
, 193, 195, 215

Credito Cooperativo (pseudonym)
, 278–279

Cross-sector strategy
, 134

Culture
, 34

of silence
, 245

of solidarity
, 37

Curriculum Library for Employee Ownership
, 23n3

Customer service
, 41

interviewee
, 97

De-intensifying work processes
, 65

Decision-making authority
, 11

“Democracy 2. 0”
, 38, 98, 169

Democracy
, 165

democratic decision-making
, 11, 51n3, 150

democratic deliberation
, 8

democratic-managed organizations
, 240

democratic by design
, 258

democratic governance
, 117, 129–130

democratic logic
, 165

democratic principles
, 298

Demographic compositions of local economies
, 201

Denials of dignity
, 7, 45

Density of connections
, 234

Development Cooperative (DC)
, 127

Developmental liberty
, 103

Direct selling organizations
, 17

Document analysis
, 119

Domestic world
, 67

Dystopian
, 2

Ecology

of alternative enterprise
, 196

of ideology
, 20, 197

“Economia solidária”
, 235, 240

“Economic democracy”
, 169, 175, 258

Economic resilience
, 191–192

as dependent variables
, 199

financial crisis
, 188–189

modelling estimates
, 209–218

organizational infrastructures for resilience
, 192–197

SVO
, 190–191

Economic theories
, 143

“Economies of worth”
, 75n1

Economy
, 175

Ecosystems
, 231

engaging in action
, 248–250

as multiple strategic action fields
, 233–235

organizing for action
, 244–247

providing glue for action
, 241–244

Electrical utilities
, 215–216

Emotional labor
, 34–35, 42

in cooperation
, 40–42

“Emotional turn”
, 32–33

Emotions
, 33

cooperative conversion
, 36–37

organizational rituals and collective emotion
, 35–36

at work
, 34

Employee ownership (EO)
, 85, 89, 96

challenge to capitalism and limits as moral community
, 104

communitarian elements of
, 92

historicity and building common identity
, 93

integration and institutionalization of ethos
, 100–102

as moral community
, 102–104

mutuality, equality, and autonomy
, 95–98

participation in shared project
, 98–100

plurality and inclusion
, 94–95

Employee Ownership Association (EOA)
, 87

“Employee Ownership Day”
, 93

Employee ownership trust (EOT)
, 17, 90

Employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs)
, 17, 90, 144, 167

in United States
, 98

Employee(s)
, 103

employee-owned businesses
, 84

employee-owned firms
, 17, 90, 93, 99, 106, 101

Employment rate recovery
, 199

Enthusiasm
, 34

Entrepreneurial ecosystem
, 233–234

Enterprise
, 261

ownership of
, 265

Environmental

degradation
, 2

protection
, 57

Equality
, 95–98

“Equally distributed” resources
, 9

Ethnography
, 39

Excluding borrowers
, 279

Excluding external investors
, 280–281

Exclusion of non-value aligned parties
, 279

“Expert community”
, 89

Facilitating calibration
, 246–247

Failure theories
, 143

Fairness
, 98

Familiarity
, 127

FDIC coding of community banks
, 222n4

Federal Housing Finance Agency
, 202

Feeling rules
, 34

Field-level food co-op cooperation
, 117

Field’s elaboration
, 234

Finance, insurance, and real estate (FIRE)
, 201

Finance Act (2014)
, 90

Financial

ownership
, 152

resilience
, 84

Financial crisis (2008)
, 61, 84, 188–189

Financialized capitalism
, 189

Firm-level EO community
, 98

Folk politics
, 101

Food co-op
, 120–121, 123–124, 128, 135n3, 293

field
, 118–119

meta-organization
, 118

For-profit

enterprises
, 189

managerial enterprises
, 11–16

managerial firms
, 6, 14

Ford Motor Company
, 189

Framing rules
, 34

Free clinic
, 293

Frontline healthcare workers, building union power for
, 168–170

Gemeinschaft
, 13, 88, 101

Gesellschaft
, 12, 13, 88

Goal degeneration
, 57

Grange movement
, 21

Great Recession
, 167, 188, 197, 202

“Green House” models
, 177

“Greenwashing” of corporate social responsibility approaches
, 258

Healthcare, union co-ops future in
, 175–180

Historicity
, 88

Home care work
, 57

“Horizontalist” principles
, 297

Hospital workers
, 168

Housing market conditions
, 202

Humanist Bank (pseudonym)
, 273

Hybrid enterprises
, 258

Hybrid organizational forms
, 145–147, 261–262

Hybridity
, 116, 145

Identity
, 88

In-depth interviews
, 91

Inclusion mechanism
, 94–95, 276, 277, 263

Inclusive stakeholder ownership
, 11

Independence Care System
, 171

Indirect cultural mechanisms
, 215

“Industrial democracy”
, 166

Industrial Workers of the World
, 166

Inequality
, 2

Informal ad hoc organizations
, 18

Institutional logics
, 143, 146, 262

Institutionalization of ethos
, 100–102

Instrumental-rational firms
, 14

Integration
, 89

Interaction rituals
, 36

of workplace democracy
, 42–45

Interconnectedness
, 230

of multilevel actors
, 234

Interdependence
, 88

Interlocking supply chains
, 20

International Association of Machinists
, 168

International Cooperative Alliance (ICA)
, 87, 114, 119

Intra-organizational structures
, 146

Investor ownership
, 283

Investor-owned firms
, 14, 193

Iron cage of rationalization
, 116

“Iron law of oligarchy”
, 179, 258

Isomorphic pressures
, 118, 130

types and sources of
, 131

Isomorphism
, 114, 117, 131

congruent and non-congruent sources of
, 118

Job crafting
, 151

Kürwille
, 102

Labor

labor-intensive demands
, 9

labor-management committee
, 172

labor-management partnership
, 169

unions
, 21, 175

Labor Management Project
, 180n6

Labor Party
, 90

Ladder of mission-sustaining ownership models
, 281–283

Law collectives
, 293

Legal and accountability mechanisms
, 263

“Liability of newness”
, 167

Liberal capitalism
, 88

Liberal market economies
, 19

“Liberal myopia”
, 88

Local purchasing
, 128

Localism
, 128, 189

Logics
, 146

of community
, 189

Long-term care
, 170, 179

spectrum
, 176

unionized worker co-op model in
, 170–172

workforce
, 168

Management
, 4

Manager-run firms
, 14

Market

economy
, 57

market-buffering strategies
, 135

market-oriented enterprises
, 265

Matrix
, 145

“Matrix guardian”
, 146

Medicaid funding
, 169

“Medical professionalism”
, 147

Medicare
, 169

Member ownership
, 271–272, 282

structures
, 263–264

Membership accountability pressures
, 132

Merchandising
, 124

Meta-organizations
, 115–132

“Microschools”
, 13

Mimetic pressures
, 130

Mission drift
, 260–266, 284

Mission-sustaining mechanisms

alternative ownership enables
, 276–278

exclusion mechanism
, 260

traditionally owned banks struggle to deploy
, 278–279

Mission-sustaining ownership models
, 260

ladder of
, 281–283

Moral community
, 85

collectivist-democratic ideal-type organization
, 84

communitarian elements of employee ownership
, 92–102

employee ownership in UK
, 89

EO community as
, 102–104

EO’s challenge to capitalism and limits as moral community
, 104–106

evaluating alternative organizations
, 86–89

Moral emotions
, 35

Multi-organizational hybridity
, 21, 145

challenges of
, 149–155

CHCA–1199SEIU case
, 142–143

helping CHCA–1199SEIU collaboration succeed
, 155–157

hybrid organizational forms
, 145–146

hybrid organizational logics
, 146–147

organizational identity
, 147–149

understanding multi-organizational hybridity through CHCA–1199SEIU case
, 157–159

unions
, 141–142

unions and cooperatives’ shared missions
, 143–145

“Multi-stakeholder cooperative”
, 127

Multilevel marketing firms
, 17

Multiple logics
, 147

Mutual banks
, 272

Mutual organizations
, 18

Mutual ownership model
, 263

Mutual societies
, 18

Mutualism
, 150, 190

Mutuality
, 88, 95–98

National Center for Employee Ownership (NCEO)
, 177

National Co+op Grocers (NCG)
, 115, 119–120, 130

National Cooperative Business Association
, 119

National Labor Relations Act (1935)
, 166

National Solidarity Economy Secretariat (SENAES)
, 236

Neighboring Food Co-op Association
, 129

Neo-institutional theory
, 117

Neoliberal capitalism
, 6, 105

“Neoliberal” governing logic
, 166

Non-congruent isomorphism
, 117

Non-SVO organizations
, 188, 192, 194–196, 202

Nonprofit organizations
, 16, 145, 173

Normative pressures
, 130

Open-source software projects
, 8

“Orders of worth”
, 58

Organic food
, 118

Organization(al)
, 35, (see also Collectivist-democratic organizations)

actors
, 18

citizenship behaviors
, 35

degeneration, 57 density
, 201

ecosystems
, 230, 233

fields
, 3

forms
, 11

hybridity
, 143

identity
, 143, 147–149

imaginaries
, 7

infrastructure
, 4, 20, 192–197

inspire “What If” and “If Only” possibilities
, 6–7

logics
, 165

organization-generating organizations
, 21

performance mediates adaptation
, 130

practices
, 2, 5, 36

rituals and collective emotion
, 35–36

shape organizing possibilities
, 18–21

studies
, 8–11

systems
, 199–200

types of organizing
, 11–18

Ownership
, 4, 11, 285, (see also Employee ownership (EO))

of enterprise
, 265

models
, 259

Participation
, 89

in shared project
, 98–100

Participatory

budgeting
, 8

democracy
, 87

democratic organizations
, 293–300

democratic social movement organizations
, 14

Pennsylvania Railroad Company
, 189

Performance rituals
, 36

Personal autonomy
, 89

Piety
, 103

Pluralism
, 58

Policy governance
, 129

Political economy research
, 259

Population density
, 201

Post-capitalist economic models
, 258

Prefigurative organizations
, 114

“Price perception”
, 124

Producer cooperatives
, 18

Product selection
, 124

Providing glue for action
, 241–244

Provisional settlement
, 60

Public agencies
, 16

Qualitative research methods
, 39–40

Quality-of-jobs crisis
, 299

Quasi-coercive pressures
, 116, 130–131

Quasi-compromises
, 71–73

Quebec’s social economy
, 178–179

Racism
, 2

Rational bureaucracy
, 6

Rationalization
, 4

Reciprocity
, 88

Recovery
, 199

Research universities
, 190, 192–193

Resilience
, 191

organizational infrastructures for
, 192–197

Resilient economies
, 191

Resistance
, 199

Resource-poor co-ops
, 116

SARS-CoV-2 pandemic
, 3

Scaling
, 117, 123

1199SEIU
, 164–165, 169

model of labor-management partnership
, 169

Science-fiction stories
, 2

Scopix (pseudonym)
, 56, 61, 72, 75n1

“Second wave” food co-ops
, 115

Secretariat of Solidarity Economy
, 235–236

Sectorized model of cooperative
, 115

SEIU
, 142, 178

Self-directed care
, 177

Service

providers
, 119

work
, 41

“Shared capitalism”
, 37

Shareholder

capitalism
, 84

corporation and critique of
, 85–86

profit
, 84

Shareholder value-oriented corporations (SVO corporations)
, 188, 190

Skilled workers
, 63

“Social and Solidarity Economy”
, 254n1

Social banking network
, 266–269

Social capital
, 195

Social constructionist approach
, 34

Social democracy
, 93

“Social ecologies”
, 197

“Social economy”
, 178–179

Social enterprise
, 84, 145, 258, (see also Alternative enterprises)

and entrepreneurship
, 254n1

hybridity
, 142

Social imprinting
, 262

Social infrastructure
, 21

Social missions
, 84

Social movements
, 3, 21, 143, 230, 297

alternative organizational forms and
, 231–233

Sociality trumps efficiency
, 116

Socialization
, 263, 276–278

enabling
, 244–246

Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE)
, 24, 294

Socio-material dynamics
, 194

Sociology

of conventions
, 75n1

of critique
, 75n1

Sociology of worth (SoW)
, 56, 63

in workplace
, 58–60

Solidarity

co-op
, 127

cooperatives
, 178

economies
, 8

enterprises
, 231

Solidarity economy
, (see “Economia solidária”)

Solidarity Economy Council
, 243

Solidarity economy enterprises (SEEs)
, 231, 235

expanding and institutionalizing
, 249

Solidification of field through creation of cultural boundaries
, 238–240

Special shareholder

models
, 272–273

ownership
, 272–273, 282–283

special shareholder-owned firms
, 17

Stakeholder
, 165

capitalism
, 166

logic
, 165

model
, 166

theory
, 87

State-owned enterprises
, 16

“Status shields”
, 34

Stigmatization of deviant behavior
, 69

Strategic action fields (SAF)
, 231, 233–234

Structural equation modeling (SEM)
, 198, 209

Substantive value-rationality
, 258

Susus
, 174

Taft-Hartley Act (1947)
, 166

Taming rationalization
, 63–66

Taxi workers
, 168

Taylorist–Fordist rationalization
, 64

Technical assistance
, 119

Three-sector economy
, 143

Top-down approach
, 173

“Two hat” problem
, 151

U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
, 202

U. S. Census and American Community Survey
, 202

U. S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
, 200

Uncertainty
, 58

Unemployment rate spike
, 199, 201

Union co-op strategy
, 163, 175

1199SEIU
, 164–165

approaches to building worker voice
, 165–168

building union power for frontline healthcare workers
, 168–170

Co-op Exploratory Committee’s activities
, 172–175

future in healthcare and beyond
, 175–180

unionized worker co-op model in long-term care
, 170–172

Unionism
, 179

Unions
, 141, 150, 165–166, 176

and cooperatives’ shared missions
, 143–145

United Food and Commercial Workers
, 168

United Natural Foods, Inc. (UNFI)
, 118

United Steelworkers (USW)
, 144, 167

USW–Mondragon union co-op model
, 157

Universities
, 188, 193

ecologies of
, 196

research
, 190, 192–193

Unrestricted investor ownership
, 273–274

User-experience (UX)
, 96

Utilitarian
, 14

“Value-based purchasing”
, 169

Value(s)
, 4, 11

imprinting
, 262, 274–276, 285

value-rationality
, 11

“Virtual chain” of co-ops
, 119, 121

Virtual ownership
, 282–283

Virtual shareholder ownership
, 272–273

Weberian bureaucracy
, 13, 16

Welding
, 62

Welsh Co-operative and Mutuals Commission (WCMC)
, 89

Wesenwille
, 88, 102

Work

degeneration
, 56–57

integration social enterprise
, 145

practices
, 58

Worker

co-ops
, 167, 175

cooperatives
, 13, 14, 17, 32, 35, 56, 58, 165, 167

ownership
, 167

worker-recuperated cooperatives
, 7

Worker Council
, 151

Worker voice

approaches to building
, 165–168

logics for advancing
, 165

Worker-recuperated businesses
, 32

in Argentina
, 36–37

Workplace

BAUEN Cooperative
, 32–33, 37–40

democracy
, 165

emotional labor in cooperation
, 40–42

emotions at work
, 34–37

generating collective effervescence
, 45–48

interaction rituals of
, 42–45

SoW in
, 58–60

World Social Forum
, 297

Xenophobia
, 2

Zappos
, 10

Zipcar
, 279–280

Prelims
“What If” and “If Only” Futures beyond Conventional Capitalism and Bureaucracy: Imagining Collectivist and Democratic Possibilities for Organizing
Part I: Working: Enacting Collectivist-Democratic Practices Through Everyday Interactions
The Emotional Dynamics of Workplace Democracy: Emotional Labor, Collective Effervescence, and Commitment at Work
Resisting Work Degeneration in Collectivist-Democratic Organizations: Craft Ethics in a French Cooperative Sheet-metal Factory
Part II: Networking: Connecting Communities through Collectivist-Democratic Practices
Moral Community as a Yardstick for Alternative Organizations: Evaluating Employee Ownership and its Place within the Socioeconomic Order
The Iron Cage Has a Mezzanine: Collectivist-Democratic Organizations and the Selection of Isomorphic Pressures via Meta-Organization
A Matrix Form of Multi-Organizational Hybridity in a Cooperative-Union Venture
Economic Democracy, Embodied: A Union Co-op Strategy for the Long-term Care Sector
Part III: Reworking: Challenging and Transforming Capitalist Economies through Collectivist-Democratic Practices
Organizational Infrastructures for Economic Resilience: Alternatives to Shareholder Value-oriented Corporations and Unemployment Trajectories in the US during the Great Recession
It Takes More Than a Village: The Creation and Expansion of Alternative Organizational Forms in Brazil
Ownership and Mission Drift in Alternative Enterprises: The Case of a Social Banking Network
Participatory Democratic Organizations Everywhere: A Harbinger of Social Change?
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