Multi-stakeholder Governance in Cooperative Organizations: Toward a New Framework for Research?

The article presents a study that reviews the empirical evidence available on multi-stakeholder cooperatives. It notes that the reviews suggest the ability of the different groups of actors to govern themselves successfully. It also argues that the appropriate body of literature in which to root a research program on the social-economy organization is the literature that has focused on the management of common pool resources by self-organized groups.