Governing cooperatives in the context of individual motives

What is it about?

This study wants to explore the relationships between the rules that a co-operative membership decides upon and the members’ motives for action. It considers individual self-interest in relation with the motives that are consistent with the values of co-operation. The paper delivers both theoretical insights and an empirical analysis. We use original survey data to provide first evidence of rules and individual motives. Data from Italian worker-run socially-oriented cooperatives were collected from 4134 workers and 420 managers in 420 social cooperatives. The empirical analysis is carried out by means of descriptives tables, Categorical Principal Components Analysis (CatPCA), OLS and ordered logit estimates.

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