A Worker-consumer hybrid cooperative is, as the name implies, a mix of the two more common forms of cooperatives, the
worker cooperative and the
consumer cooperative. In this type of cooperative the power is divided between the workers and consumers. This could for example the cooperative's board of directors, where the consumers and workers would elect a given number of people to the board each.
An example of such a cooperative is
Eroski, a part of the Spanish
Mondragon Corporation
The Mondragon Corporation is a corporation and federation of worker cooperatives based in the Basque region of Spain.
It was founded in the town of Mondragon in 1956 by José María Arizmendiarrieta and a group of his students at a technical ...
group which operates supermarkets and petrol stations around the whole nation and in particular in the Basque country from where the company originates.
Worker-consumer cooperatives are forms of
multi-stakeholder cooperatives
A cooperative (also known as co-operative, co-op, or coop) is "an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly owned and democratically-control ...
.
[Multi-stakeholder cooperatives on Cultivate.Coop http://cultivate.coop/wiki/Multi-stakeholder_cooperatives#Worker_Consumer_Hybrid]
References
Cooperatives
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