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Scaling in a post-growth era: Learning from Social Agricultural Cooperatives.

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العنوان: Scaling in a post-growth era: Learning from Social Agricultural Cooperatives.
المؤلفون: Colombo, Laura A, Bailey, Adrian R, Gomes, Marcus VP
المصدر: Organization; Sep2024, Vol. 31 Issue 6, p907-928, 22p
مصطلحات موضوعية: CULTURE diffusion, COOPERATIVE agriculture, ORGANIZATIONAL growth, ORGANIZATION management, CORPORATE culture
مستخلص: It has become normative in organization and management studies literature to consider scaling as a synonym for organizational growth. Scaling is typically understood as scaling-up. This article demonstrates that, in the context of post-growth organizations, scaling involves a more complex set of dynamics. Directing scholarly attention to scaling in the context of Italian Social Agricultural Cooperatives (i.e. organizations that hold a different rationale and modus operandi from the capitalist enterprise), this research contributes to the literature on scaling the impact of post-growth organizations by identifying nine different scaling routes: organizational growth (vertical and horizontal); organizational downscaling; impact on policies; multiplication; impact on organizational culture; impact on societal culture; aggregation; and diffusion. This article demonstrates that post-growth scaling: (1) requires the synergistic interaction of different strategies; (2) focuses on impacting societal culture; (3) does not necessarily require organizational growth; and (4) is a relational process, embedded in socio-ecological systems. The typology presented in this article empowers post-growth organizations to become more aware of different available scaling routes, unlocking their transformative potential and supporting the transition towards a post-growth future, in which the goal of economics is the pursuit of human and ecological flourishing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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قاعدة البيانات: Complementary Index
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تدمد:13505084
DOI:10.1177/13505084221147480