An exploration of the relationship between member openness and perceived organisational openness at a particular point in the co-operative lifecycle

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Noreen Byrne , O. McCarthy , D. O’Loughlin
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Co-operatives are essentially relational entities which are jointly co-created by members and the co-operative. This relational co-creation is particularly important in the founding years of the co-operative and at points of crisis and regeneration in the co-operative lifecycle. This paper explores the relationship between member openness towards relational engagement and their perception of the co-operative’s openness to that input (perceived openness) in a credit union context, prior to a major period of restructuring. Perceived openness is examined from two distinct perspectives, that is, awareness of right of involvement as owners (which in this paper we equated with co-operative member ownership structure) and possibility of involvement or perception of organisation openness (which in this paper we equated with co-operative process). It was found in the multivariate Logistic model that possibility rather than right of involvement is related to member openness. This suggests that the process of co-operation in a co-operative plays a greater role than the organisational structure of that co-operative in facilitating member input. This is a significant finding and suggests that greater attention needs to be given to process and openness in co-operative research and practice. It also suggests that co-operatives cannot just draw on their member ownership structure, in building member engagement at time of crisis.

在合作生命周期的某个特定点上,对成员开放性和感知组织开放性之间关系的探索
合作社本质上是由成员和合作社共同创建的关系实体。这种关系型的共同创造在合作社成立之年以及合作社生命周期中的危机和再生时刻尤为重要。本文探讨了在信用合作社背景下,在重组的主要时期之前,成员对关系参与的开放性与他们对合作社对该投入的开放性(感知的开放性)的看法之间的关系。感知的开放性是从两个不同的角度来考察的,即作为所有者的参与权意识(在本文中,我们将其等同于合作成员所有权结构)和参与的可能性或组织开放性感知(在本文中将其等同于合作过程)。在多元Logistic模型中发现,参与的可能性而非权利与成员开放性有关。这表明,在促进成员投入方面,合作社的合作过程比合作社的组织结构发挥着更大的作用。这是一个重要的发现,表明在合作研究和实践中需要更多地关注过程和开放性。它还表明,合作社不能仅仅利用其成员所有权结构,在危机时期建立成员参与度。
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