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Pattern description
Pattern description
A cooperative (also known as co-operative, co-op, or coop) - "an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly-owned and democratically-controlled enterprise" [International Co-operative Alliance].
Cooperatives may include:
- non-profit community organizations
- businesses owned and managed by the people who use their services (a consumer cooperative)
- organisations managed by the people who work there (worker cooperatives)
- organisations managed by the people to whom they provide accommodation (housing cooperatives)
- hybrids such as worker cooperatives that are also consumer cooperatives or credit unions
- multi-stakeholder cooperatives such as those that bring together civil society and local actors to deliver community needs
- second- and third-tier cooperatives whose members are other cooperatives
Inventive problems
Inventive problems
The company should be large and have a complex structure to perform a large number of diverse operations for the development, production, and delivery of a complex product to the customers.
The company should be small and have a simple structure in order to:
- reduce the variety and complexity of the company activities;
- focus on a small number of core operations;
- have a small stuff;
- minimize the cost of development, production, sale, and delivery of products to customers.
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