Transformational Resilience and Future-Ready Cooperative Governance Systems
- Autores: Karen Miner
- Localización: Humanistic Governance in Democratic Organizations: The Cooperative Difference / coord. por Sonja Novković, Karen Miner, Cian McMahon, 2023, ISBN 978-3-031-17403-2, págs. 397-421
- Idioma: español
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Resumen
In the face of the urgent need to build and rebuild healthy and strong social, economic, and environmental (SEE) systems, transformative resilience is a key ingredient and leverage point in cooperative governance systems. This conceptual chapter draws connections among complexity, resilience, the need for transformation, and the design and execution of future-ready cooperative enterprise governance systems. The chapter begins by framing the global SEE context, taking an integrative and holistic view—a view that should compel cooperatives to future-proof their model. Next, the chapter takes the SEE orientation and applies a resilience lens, drawing on concepts, definitions, and sets of principles. Next, connections are made between resilience and the cooperative enterprise model strengths and governance system advantages. The chapter concludes by suggesting that while cooperative governance systems are well enough understood in the context of relatively stable past and current socio-economic and ecological circumstances, dynamic external forces are a serious risk for cooperatives in the years to come. In the face of these forces, cooperatives that embrace the tenets of democratic, participatory, people-centered, and networked governance systems are aligned with transformational resilience capability and the increased likelihood of long-term survival.
