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A shameless plug for our Montreal-based multistakeholder food delivery coop: Radish Cooperative (https://radish.coop https://radish.coop).

• jtr1 4y ago
  I’m fascinated by multistakeholder cooperatives, but can’t seem to find much reading material on the mechanics of them. Any recommendations?
  • michaelthompson 4y ago
    what does multistakeholder cooperative mean?
    • qrush 4y ago
      Multi-stakeholder co-operatives are co-ops with more than one "owner" class. For example, a multi-stakeholder food co-op could be owned by both consumers of the store, and the workers of the store. The co-op's by-laws determines how the groups differ and how the equity share (and patronage dividends) work out.
    • jtr1 4y ago
      My understanding: there are a lot of varieties of coops, consumer coops (REI, the Green Bay Packers, in some respects) are primarily owned by their customers, purchasing coops like ACE Hardware are owned by a group of businesses to increase buying power, and most relevant to this thread, worker coops are where workers own the enterprise. Multi-stakeholder cooperatives blend multiple forms of ownership to try to align the incentives of the enterprise with everyone who has a stake in its success. To me, it sounds really hard to get right, but also transformative if you can, so I’m very interested to learn more!
      • missedthecue 4y ago
        Credit unions are also examples of customer owned cooperatives