期刊名称:Boletín de la Asociación Internacional de Derecho Cooperativo
印刷版ISSN:1134-993X
出版年度:2010
卷号:44
页码:159-176
出版社:University of Deusto
摘要:Las cooperativas se han querido enfrentar a los desafíos globalesdel mercado a través de estrategias de crecimiento. El presente estudio pretendeponer de relieve como presiona la legislación cooperativa, incentivadapor políticas públicas, para la creación de grupos cooperativos y cooperativasde segundo grado. Con una visión crítica se analizan las disposiciones legalesque incentivan, la mayoría de veces sin éxito, estos mecanismos de agrupacióne integración cooperativa. A su vez se estudia el fenómeno contrario de disgregación,con el estudio del fenómeno de las secciones de cooperativas contraponiéndoloa la creación de filiales típica de las sociedades de capital. El análisisde casos reales en España y en varios países de nuestro entorno económico,ponen de manifiesto diversos recursos para aplicar con éxito políticas de expansiónempresarial.
其他摘要:In confronting global market challenges, cooperatives have oftenfocused on strategies of growth all the while preoccupied about the degreeto which cooperatives principles can be maintained. This paper illustratescooperative legislation´s role in shaping a legal environment in which cooperativescan both utilize necessary competitive strategies and maintain cooperativeprinciples. Given the recent global financial crisis and the resulting lackof confidence in the shareholder model as the overriding paradigm, this taskis even more relevant. We are critical of certain legislative provisions which donot achieve their stated goals and hide economic realities, encouraging cooperativesto «engineer» around such legislation or, alternatively, utilize cooperativelegal mechanisms to find «refuge». Notwithstanding the apparent «pro»cooperative legal environment in Spain, in particular, its emphasis on integration, we argue that the legislation is inadequate: Strategies of integration are often utilized not out of the necessity to pursue a justified economic growth strategy but simply to allow for the subsistence of small cooperatives. In addition, such integration strategies overlook the need for flexibility and differentiation (i.e. mechanisms within cooperative administrations to deal with particularities and distinct objectives). In the case of cooperatives with justified growth needs, the legislation creates limitations for development and expansion within the cooperative framework, thus encouraging resort to ingenious methods to dodge such limitations or change form to an investor owned firm. I argue for a legislative regime that acknowledges the necessity of both growth and differentiation, allowing flexibility so that cooperatives of varying size can continue in a socially valuable framework. I refer to other legislative mechanisms from selected countries as examples of what can be done to complement and make coherent the stated intent of the Spanish legislation and the actual results
关键词:Integración; cooperativas de segundo grado; colaboración;empresarial.
其他关键词:Integration; second degree cooperatives; business partnership.