MONDRAGON ENGLISH RESOURCE LIST

Here is a more extensive resource list. Many of these items are difficult to find, however, I have access to all of them. I will post those that I have in Electronic format. Please let me know if this is useful.
-Dan

Books:

1. Cooperativism and globalization: The Basque Mondragón cooperatives in the face of changing times.
Mondragon Co-operative Experience
José Ramón Fernández
San Sebastián
Editor MCC 2001
2. Forty years of co-operative history: Mondragon corporación corporativa
Arrasate
Mondragón Corporación Cooperativa

3. The economic system of co-operative societies: determining and applying co-operative results.
Joxe Mari Aizega Zubillaga
Donosita
2003

4. We Build the Road as We Travel: Mondragon A Cooperative Social System
Roy Morrison 1997

5. Making Mondragon: The Growth and Dynamics of the Worker Cooperative Complex
William Foote Whyte and Kathleen King Whyte 1991

6. Values at Work Employee Participation Meets Market Pressure at Mondragon
George Cheney 2002

7. From Mondragon to America: Experiments in Community Development
Greg MacLeod 1998

8. The Myth of Mondragon: Cooperative, Politics, and Working-Class Life in a Basque Town
Sharryn Kasmir 1996

9. The Organization of the Future
Frances Hesselbein, Marshall Goldsmith, Richard Beckhard, editors.
1997

10. Cooperation at Work: The Mondragón Experience
Keith Bradley and Alan Gelb
Heinemann Educational Books
1983

11. Irizar, Walking Along Three Centuries (A history of the Irizar Coop)
Irizar S. COOP
2001

Scholarly Articles:

Democracy, cooperation and business success: The case of Mondragon corporacion cooperativa
Forcadell, FJJ BUS ETHICS 56 (3): 255-274 FEB 2005

Cooperativism and globalization the Basque Mondragón cooperatives in the face of changing times
Joseba Azkarraga Etxegibel
Professor of Sociology at Mondragon Unibertsitatea and researcher at
LANKI

THE INTERNATIONALISATION OF COOPERATIVES: THE CASE OF THE MONDRAGON COOPERATIVE CORPORATION
By Anjel Mari ERRASTI, Iñaki HERAS, Baleren BAKAIKOA, Pilar ELGOIBAR

THE FUTURE, DYNAMICS AND FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF GROWTH OF ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY
A four-part paper to be presented to the IAFEP in Mondragon, July 2006 Jaroslav Vanek

Three Themes about Democratic Enterprises: Capital Structure, Education, and Spin-offs
David Ellerman
Visiting Scholar
University of California at Riverside

Texts from Lanki, the University of Mondragón’s Co-operative Studies Institute: These texts can be found at http://www.lanki.coop/
Arizmendiarrietas thinking
Meaning and orientation of the Mondragón Experience
The horizons of self-management
Intercooperation based on solidarity
Participation
Texts dealing with topics concerning the Experience, within the framework of the Testimony Project
Co-operative Education

THE COOPERATIVE CORPORATION AS COUNTERWEIGHT TO GLOBALISM
Greg Macleod
PUBLISHED IN " ECONOMIE ET SOLIDARITE" PRESSE UNIVERSITAIRE DE QUEBEC.. CIRIEC …VOL 3. NO.1,
2002

An Endogenous Group Formation Theory of Cooperative Networks: The Economics of La Lega and Mondragon.
Sumit Joshi
Department of Economics, The George Washington University
Stephen C. Smith
Department of Economics, The George Washington University
July 4, 2004

COOPERATIVES AS MULTINATIONALS: THE MCC CASE
Anjel Errasti Amozarrain .
Agurtzane Begiristain Zubillaga
Baleren Bakaikoa Azurmendi
Institute of Cooperative Law and Social Economy (GEZKI)
University of the Basque Country
2004?

ENABLING ETHICAL ECONOMIES: COOPERATIVISM AND CLASS
J.K. Gibson
Katherine Graham
April 2003
graham@geo.umass.edu
katherine.gibson@anu.edu.au
Critical Sociology
Summer 2003

Innovations in Corporate Governance: The Mondragón experience Shann Turnbull Corporate Governance:
An International Review, 3:3, pp.167-180, July, 1995)

The Mondragón Corporación Cooperativa: An Interview with Juan M. Sinde, Chief Executive Deputy
Charles M. A. Clark
Review of Business
Volume 25, Number 1
Winter 2004
Voluinter 2004

Movies:
Jose Maria Arizmendiarrieta: A project for Social Transformation DVD www.lanki.coop

The Mondragón Experiment
BBC Documentary
1980

Dissertations (Unpublished):

Collaborative Praxis at Work: Transforming Enterprise and Community
David C. Gabriel
2000
University of San Francisco

Finding Meaning by Participating in Decisions Affecting Us, Our Work, Our Lives: Lessons Learned at Mondragón
David Herrera
2004
University of San Diego

Making the social economy work within the global economy: an empirical study of worker co-operatives in Quebec, Emilia-Romagna and Mondragón
Mikel Cid
2006
University of Mondragon

Miscellaneous:
MCC Profile 2005 www.mcc.es

This is a response to a comment posted on my previous post:

Bill,

I posted a response to your comment earlier but the computer got shut off before I could save it.

I am not necessarily in a position to give too much advice on this subject at this point in a very concrete sense.

However I will say this: Your question is one that probably many people who look at MCC from outside and want to apply the model also make. I think nevertheless that is not the right approach. Certainly, there are bits and pieces that would be useful for someone thinking about starting a coop or working in one now. But from my point of view, what is really necessary to look at when studying the coops is looking at the basis of the coops, that is their founding and the development of their values and early institutions.

Many people will tell you that replicating Mondragón is impossible because of the unique cultural of Basques, historic and political situation under Franco and the industrial history of the region etc. I believe thinking about these issues is basically a waste of time when considering applying lessons from the coops. What is significant is that a small group of individuals lead by one dynamic leader (Fr. Jose Maria) founded a school, where they trained scores of young people in the same values and vision and created a community around those ideas. This school was founded 12 or 13 years BEFORE the first coop was started. In addition during this time, students went abroad learned practical skills and engineering, studied other social economic models and businesses. One MCC founder described it as a period of party preparation or formation, in which leaders were developed, values shared and a vision for development clarified.
In my opinion this is by far the most significant lesson of MCC. I am not suggesting that to start a coop it is necessary to found a school for 12 years, but rather that the approach to economic development of this kind starts with a core group of people who have a shared vision and a way of inculcating those values into young people or new comers to the group. The structures that were subsequently created by MCC are a result of the education of the early students and other founders in that school and the leadership of one priest. The subsequent trajectory of MCC is best understood in terms of that period. This is certainly a subject I will be returning to.