Shared-Services Platform Cooperatives
= "a cooperatively-governed technological infrastructure for shared use among cooperatives in their network, using the resources contributed by those cooperatives".
Description
Morshed Mannan:
"a cooperatively-governed technological infrastructure for shared use among cooperatives in their network, using the resources contributed by those cooperatives. In the particular context of the platform economy, this includes the co-development and co-ownership of software applications for online matchmaking platforms by several (loosely) connected businesses. As such, these organizations bear a resemblance to time-tested supply and shared-services cooperatives in the agricultural and retail sectors, thereby showing how the past continues to offer lessons for contemporary businesses, including those developing ‘disruptive’ technologies. These businesses, ‘The Mobility Factory’ [TMF]2 , ‘Eva’, and others like them, will be referred to as shared-services platform cooperatives. This study shows that shared-services platform cooperatives have begun to emerge from another set of cooperatives, known as platform cooperatives (Scholz, 2017, 2014), in a bid to share costs as well as to achieve scale."
(https://ia801707.us.archive.org/9/items/morshed-mannan-single-web/Morshed%20Mannan_single_web.pdf)
Source
- Report: Everything Old is New Again: Evaluating the Legal and Governance Structures of Shared-Services Platform Cooperatives. Morshed Mannan. Institute for the Digital Cooperative Economy, Platform Cooperativism Consortium,
URL = https://ia801707.us.archive.org/9/items/morshed-mannan-single-web/Morshed%20Mannan_single_web.pdf