Open AccessPLATFORM COOPS NOW!: A team entrepreneurship capacity building program to create platform coops
Author(s) -
Liher Pillado Arbide,
Ander Etxeberria Aranburu,
Giovanni Tokarski
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
revista vasca de economía social/revista vasca de economía social
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2444-3107
pISSN - 1698-7446
DOI - 10.1387/gizaekoa.22853
Subject(s) - entrepreneurship , set (abstract data type) , business , knowledge management , engineering , engineering management , management , computer science , economics , finance , programming language
Traditional labour relationships have been disrupted due to the digital platforms based businesses. This article aims on the one hand to share the consequences the sharing economy has generated for workers, and how MONDRAGON’s principles as one of the best examples of worker owned business group in the world, can be applied within the new digital era. On the other hand, this paper provides a literature review on how digital platforms can operate with fairer principles based on the framework that platform coops consist of. Last but not least, Mondragon University and The New School have set up a capacity building program on team entrepreneurship and an online incubation program that aims to support the creation of platform coops, whose results after two editions and future opportunities for research are shared.