Resumen de Governance in Lincolnshire Consumer Cooperative
This chapter begins with a review of various governance theories, building up to humanistic governance, and leading onto the identification of major challenges facing consumer cooperatives, which historically have exhibited clear evidence of failures. It goes on to discuss ways in which these challenges can be addressed, including institutional measures of networked/polycentric developments that are particularly relevant to the UK cooperative scene. Next it examines the governance system of a regional cooperative society. The humanistic governance approach has proven particularly useful in broadening the understanding of cooperative governance to networked and polycentric systems, both within this individual co-op and by linking institutions and organizations in the cooperative ecosystem.
