Challenges in Managing Organizations in the Social, Solidarity & Popular Economy: An Analysis of Three Experiences of Generating Partnership Networks

Abstract

Factorial is a worker cooperative in Buenos Aires, Argentina, that provides professional services to cooperatives and actors in the social, solidarity, and popular economy. This chapter aims to contribute to the debate around company ownership by looking at how worker cooperatives function in the country and the way their workers form part of the capital of each cooperative. The joint ownership of business capital in these cooperatives entails a series of challenges and responsibilities for their workers, which will be problematized in this paper. In addition, an account is given of three experiences of cooperative networks in order to show how the creation of these networks can be useful for thinking about and meeting the challenges involved in managing companies in the social, solidarity, and popular economy.