Cooperatives—saviours or gravediggers of capitalism? Critical performativity and the John Lewis Partnership
研究了英国员工所有制零售商约翰·刘易斯的治理结构，从批判性表演性视角分析其合作制元素在实现民主控制、经济参与和自主独立原则时面临的问题。
The structures of ownership and governance at John Lewis, a major UK employee-owned retailer, have been commended by those who wish to recuperate capitalism and by those who seek to transform it. From a perspective of ‘critical performativity’, John Lewis is of special interest since it is celebrated as a successful organization and heralded as an alternative to more typical forms of capitalist enterprise. By examining the cooperative elements of the John Lewis structures of ownership and governance, we illuminate a number of issues faced in realizing the principles ascribed to employee-owned cooperatives—notably, with regard to ‘democratic member control’, ‘member economic participation’ and ‘autonomy and independence’.