A Study on the Degree of Development of a Social Co-operative – A Case Study of Taiwanfarmer Co-operative

• Main Authors: Tseng, wei-ping, 曾維平
• Other Authors: 鄭勝分博士
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/67572142319384489982

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 社會教育學系 === 101 === A social co-operative is a new type of co-operative and springs up in 1970s which influences positively the development of co-operatives and society. An approach of a social co-operative has been followed for many years abroad, especially in Europe, however in Taiwan the academics and practitioners in recent years also start to find out and explore a social co-operative, but not yet have had the specific and specialized approach. Taiwanfarmer Co-operative is a case study of this research. The research method is the qualitative research adopted depth interview, and the employees of the organization and some stakeholders of local communities are interviewed. The objectives of this study focus on finding out the conditions of development, and the issues and challenges of processes of development of a social co-operative, and that contributes to references and consultations of development of social co-operatives in future. According to the literatures a social co-operative has some important conditions of development, including the integral public interest, the non-governmental characters, the governance structure of multi-stakeholders, the substantial representative of worker members, and the limited distribution of surplus. From the results of the qualitative research of depth interview, there are the conditions of the integral public interest, the non-governmental characters and the limited distribution of surplus, but are deficient in the governance structure of multi-stakeholders and substantial representative of worker members for Taiwanfarmer Co-operative. Furthermore, Taiwanfarmer Co-operative has the issues of the integral public interest, the governance structure of multi-stakeholders and the substantial representative of worker members, and even more than others that the issues of the integral public interest are more and more complicated. And that trust is the core theme of the development of social co-operatives.