Cooperatives vs nonprofit Franchises vs Flexible Business Networks

[Davi Leal]

After reading your posts I think the text below shows two different cases:
  * Best Western
  * Mondragón Cooperative Corporation (MCC)


I worth noting the troubles at MCC. Any way, it seems they are two successful 
big organizations.
  "Backlash
     The huge size of MCC has caused tensions between ..."


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Davi



Laurent GUERBY wrote:
> FYI, not really a small business, but a cooperative:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondrag%F3n_Cooperative_Corporation
> <<
> Mondragón Cooperative Corporation (MCC) is a group of manufacturing and
> retail companies based in the Basque Country and extended over the rest
> of Spain and abroad. It is the world's largest worker cooperative.
> [...]
> In the 1980s, the various companies responded to pressures of
> globalisation by joining together as the Mondragón Cooperative
> Corporation . The MCC is now the Basque Country's largest corporation,
> the seventh largest in Spain. It is considered the world's largest
> worker co-operative. In 2002 the MCC contributed 3.7% towards the total
> GDP of the Basque Country. It has 38 industrial plants abroad, and this
> figure is expected to rise to 60 plants by 2005.
> [...]
>
>
> Laurent
>
> On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 18:41 -0700, Derek Neighbors wrote:
> > I think it is worth investigating how Best Western (the largest hotel
> > chain in the world) operates.  It is non-profit franchise that could
> > best be described as the worlds largest co-op.
> >
> > http://www.answers.com/topic/best-western
> >
> > Worth debating at least.