All Outputs (2)

From cooperative practice to research and back: Learning from the emotional experience of ethnography with two social enterprises (2017)
Journal Article
Langmead, K. (2017). From cooperative practice to research and back: Learning from the emotional experience of ethnography with two social enterprises. Social enterprise journal, 13(2), 194-212. https://doi.org/10.1108/sej-07-2016-0028

Purpose This paper aims to explore how experiences and emotions arising from the performance of ethnography shape the construction of knowledge about democratic practice in two social enterprises. It argues that ethnographers can develop a more nuan... Read More about From cooperative practice to research and back: Learning from the emotional experience of ethnography with two social enterprises.

Challenging the Degeneration Thesis: the Role of Democracy in Worker Cooperatives? (2016)
Journal Article
Langmead, K. (2016). Challenging the Degeneration Thesis: the Role of Democracy in Worker Cooperatives?. The Journal of Entrepreneurial and Organizational Diversity, 5(1), 79-98. https://doi.org/10.5947/jeod.2016.005

This paper uses data collected through written narratives, focus groups and participant observation in three small UK worker cooperatives to investigate the role of democracy in maintaining cooperatives’ dual social-economic characteristic and resist... Read More about Challenging the Degeneration Thesis: the Role of Democracy in Worker Cooperatives?.