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<p>Cooperatives, despite their commitments to democratic member control and concern for community, often struggle to prioritize the interests of their members and non-member stakeholders. Research on cooperatives has identified many remedies, though these remedies are fragmented. We adopt the lens of republican political philosophy to advance a framework for an integrated analysis of these challenges centered on the principle of non-domination. After defining domination in the context of cooperatives and elaborating how it can affect both members and non-member stakeholders, we develop a comprehensive framework of republican cooperative governance anchored in Hirschman’s (<CitationRef CitationID="CR53">1970</CitationRef>) model of exit, voice, and loyalty. In doing so, our paper makes two main contributions to research at the nexus of research on cooperatives, business ethics, and political philosophy. First, our conception of domination in cooperatives advances the limited but growing&#xa0;republican research on cooperatives&#xa0;and the challenges they face by spotlighting the importance of attending to non-member stakeholder domination and distilling distinctive types of member domination. Second, overcoming insufficient attention to loyalty to date, our comprehensive framework builds on exit, voice, and critical loyalty to elaborate how organizational and societal remedies can be integrated towards a comprehensive republican approach to cooperatives and cooperative economies.</p>

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Cooperating Freely: Advancing a Republican Conception of Cooperative Governance

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    2026年7月14日

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  • Gabriel Monette,
  • Rafael Ziegler,
  • Simon Pek

摘要

Cooperatives, despite their commitments to democratic member control and concern for community, often struggle to prioritize the interests of their members and non-member stakeholders. Research on cooperatives has identified many remedies, though these remedies are fragmented. We adopt the lens of republican political philosophy to advance a framework for an integrated analysis of these challenges centered on the principle of non-domination. After defining domination in the context of cooperatives and elaborating how it can affect both members and non-member stakeholders, we develop a comprehensive framework of republican cooperative governance anchored in Hirschman’s (1970) model of exit, voice, and loyalty. In doing so, our paper makes two main contributions to research at the nexus of research on cooperatives, business ethics, and political philosophy. First, our conception of domination in cooperatives advances the limited but growing republican research on cooperatives and the challenges they face by spotlighting the importance of attending to non-member stakeholder domination and distilling distinctive types of member domination. Second, overcoming insufficient attention to loyalty to date, our comprehensive framework builds on exit, voice, and critical loyalty to elaborate how organizational and societal remedies can be integrated towards a comprehensive republican approach to cooperatives and cooperative economies.