Abstract
It is increasingly common to establish co-operatives not only for business purposes but also for the purpose of teaching collaboration practices in business. This chapter investigates and compares traditional business co-operatives and educational co-operatives as the environments of entrepreneurial learning communities. The data, which consists of interviews with members of both types of co-operatives, have been analyzed through a content analysis. The main outcomes show that in both types of co-operatives, a sense of community and creativity are manifested as parts of the learning process. When examining the development of collective creativity and if the learning processes were manifested as single- and double-loop learning, some differences were observed between educational co-operatives and business co-operatives.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Collective Creativity for Responsible and Sustainable Business Practice |
Editors | Ziska Fields |
Place of Publication | Hershey |
Publisher | IGI Global |
Pages | 242-259 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781522518242 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781522518235 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Dec 2016 |
MoEC publication type | A3 Part of a book or another research book |
Keywords
- collective creativity
- business co-operative
- educational co-operative
- entrepreneurial learning process
- single- and double-loop learning
Field of science
- Business and management
- General education