Entrepreneurship and innovation in worker cooperatives and conventional firms: the role of external cooperation

IF 6.5 1区经济学 Q1 BUSINESS Small Business Economics Pub Date : 2024-07-22 DOI:10.1007/s11187-024-00951-x

Francisco J. Santos, Carmen Guzmán, Lidia Valiente

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Through the comparison of conventional firms (CFs) with worker cooperatives (WCs), which are a type of collective enterprise with significant experience in cooperation, this research aims to analyse the influence of external cooperation on the two most prominent factors for the success of enterprises: entrepreneurship and innovation. To this end, a research model is proposed based on contributions from the stakeholders’ perspective of the resource-based view of the firm and tested with data from a survey conducted on WCs and CFs located in two Spanish regions with a long tradition in the cooperative movement. The results highlight that the influence of external cooperation on innovation performance is more relevant for WCs and demonstrate that these collective firms are not disadvantaged in innovation compared to CFs. Furthermore, the results suggest that WCs have a more remarkable ability to compete and cooperate simultaneously, that is, to coopete, due to their participative nature.

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工人合作社和传统企业的创业与创新：外部合作的作用

通过比较传统企业（CFs）和工人合作社（WCs）（一种在合作方面具有丰富经验的集体企业），本研究旨在分析外部合作对企业成功的两个最重要因素--创业和创新--的影响。为此，我们提出了一个研究模型，该模型基于利益相关者对基于资源的企业观的贡献，并通过对位于西班牙两个具有悠久合作运动传统的地区的 WC 和 CF 的调查数据进行了检验。结果表明，外部合作对创新绩效的影响与 WCs 更为相关，并证明这些集体企业与 CFs 相比在创新方面并不处于劣势。此外，研究结果表明，由于其参与性，WCs 在同时竞争与合作（即合作竞争）方面的能力更为突出。

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Small Business Economics Multiple-

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14.10

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9.40%

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124

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