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Competitive pressure can push the cooperative toward conventional practices, requiring continuing negotiated tradeoffs.

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Erik FormanCo-Founder · The Drivers CooperativeLinkedIn ↗

Competitive pressure can push the cooperative toward conventional practices, requiring continuing negotiated tradeoffs.

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Attributed contributors: Erik Forman. “Competitive pressure can push the cooperative toward conventional practices, requiring continuing negotiated tradeoffs..” Lessons from The Drivers Cooperative: Can Technology Ventures Really Work with Democratic Governance?. ECOSYSTEM Summit, Barcelona, 17 September 2026. Session time 12:42–13:26. https://cs-ecosystem.commonshare.workers.dev/evidence/E-48bdfd36f034

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Competitive pressure can push the cooperative toward conventional practices, requiring continuing negotiated tradeoffs.

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Erik FormanCo-Founder · The Drivers CooperativeLinkedIn ↗

Proposed mechanism: Market survival pressures organisational form and stakeholder commitments.

Limit: The speaker does not conclude that scaling is impossible.

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