Publication: Compensating international mobility in a workers' cooperative: an interpretative study
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2020-08-01
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This study uses an interpretive research design to analyze how worker-members in cooperatives understand and
handle the challenge of designing a compensation system for their international workforce. The empirical study,
conducted in a cooperative belonging to the Mondragon Corporation, reveals how such a challenge is understood
as one of finding a system that combines international business performance with the need to uphold and
maintain the cooperative’s identity. Drawing on that understanding, the cooperative adopts a number of management
decisions and criteria for the distribution of rewards and the justification of unequal working conditions
among its international assignees that are very different to the mainstream ones in conventional firms. The
study’s findings are an invitation to question many of the traditional theoretical assumptions and practices
involved in global compensation, prompting the need to develop theories and research initiatives in this field
that are more in keeping with the needs and characteristics of social enterprises.
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Social enterprises, Expatriation, International compensation, Interpretive studies, Workers' cooperatives
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Bonache, J., & Zárraga-Oberty, C. (2020). Compensating international mobility in a workers’ cooperative: An interpretive study. Journal of World Business, 55 (5), p. 100975.