EcosystemSUMMIT & RESEARCH
DEFINITION USED IN THIS COLLECTION

Membership boundary.

Who is included in ownership or member benefits and who is excluded.

What it includes

Who is included in ownership or member benefits and who is excluded.

Where the boundary lies

Aggregate employee counts do not establish membership rights.

How speakers put it.

EXPLICIT RELATED FORMULATION · Worker membership
Likely speaker
Ander Etxeberria OtaduiHead of Cooperative Dissemination · MONDRAGON CorporationLinkedIn ↗
In the case of Monogon, if I am member of the cooperative, if I'm proprietor of the cooperative, I work in the cooperative. What we put together is not grape, is not soja, is not olives. What we put together is work.

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Ander describes the connection between work and cooperative membership. This is a case-specific rule, not a universal definition of membership.

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Ideology vs. Practice in Building the World’s Largest Federation of Cooperatives

Evidence in practice.

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Analyst applies. Artisanal mining combines a small supply share with substantial livelihood dependence and human-rights scrutiny.

Qualifies the boundary. Aggregate employee counts do not establish membership rights.

Differences and limits.

No event-wide agreement is inferred from coding. Compare the attributed examples and boundaries; co-occurrence is not evidence of agreement.

Aggregate employee counts do not establish membership rights.

Related concepts.

related · ANALYST INTERPRETATION

ownership model →

Membership determines who falls inside the rights and benefits of an ownership arrangement.

Codes that occur in the same passages

Co-occurrence describes coding, not equivalence, causation or agreement.