{"id":4471,"date":"2020-09-09T03:33:02","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T03:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/?p=4471"},"modified":"2020-09-09T03:33:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T03:33:04","slug":"co-operatives-and-social-enterprise-are-they-a-replacement-for-mainstream-capitalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/2020\/09\/09\/co-operatives-and-social-enterprise-are-they-a-replacement-for-mainstream-capitalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Co-operatives and social enterprise: are they a replacement for mainstream capitalism?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/co-operatives-and-social-enterprise-are-they-a-replacement-for-mainstream-capitalism-10520\">Link to the article<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Overview<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In exploring business models related to coworking, work tourism, social equity, and sustainability, I came across this article on social enterprise and co-operatives. Essentially, by deprioritizing pure profit and encouraging distribution among a community, co-op models fit into communities better, structuring financial distribution. This helps begin to resolve some of the downsides to adaptive reuse and coworking &#8211; namely, gentrification and exploitation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key Takeaways<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The co-operative business model is one worth considering for any of the applications and service conjectures I think of, since it distributes economic impact<\/li><li>The co-op model can be extended to social enterprise to levy the possibility of gentrification<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Excerpts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The co-operative and mutual business model offers a panacea to the many failings of mainstream economics and business.<\/li><li>Rather than chasing profits and ever increasing growth, the co-operative was touted as offering a sustainable alternative that is not focused on the maximisation of profit.<\/li><li>Any profit generated by the co-operative was to be distributed to members commensurate with the amount of patronage each member provided.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Some profits were to be set aside for the common good of enhancing member education and welfare.<\/li><li>The co-operative is not a charity and cannot survive for long if it does not make a profit as a sound and resilient business.<\/li><li>The co-operative differs from the mainstream investor owned business through its focus on delivering economic and social benefits to its members.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Link to the article) Overview In exploring business models related to coworking, work tourism, social equity, and sustainability, I came across this article on social enterprise and co-operatives. Essentially, by deprioritizing pure profit and encouraging distribution among a community, co-op models fit into communities better, structuring financial distribution. This helps begin to resolve some of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":4472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4473,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471\/revisions\/4473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}