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Multistakeholder and Platform Cooperatives resources

A core concept of Platform Cooperatives [ http://platformcoop.net/ ] isn't new— the idea that a cooperative enterprise maybe should not be entirely owned and controlled by only workers or only consumers. This kind of cooperative has been called hybrid, solidarity, or multi-stakeholder:

http://www.co-oplaw.org/2014/09/multi-stakeholder-cooperatives/

But i'm finding very few resources on how best to structure cooperatives in this more established concept, let alone for platform cooperatives.

(As far as defining a Platform Cooperative, i don't think it need necessarily be a hybrid cooperative, but i think it must distinguish itself from a consumer coop on-line by requiring that workers have democratic self-management, whether they are formally stakeholders in a multi-stakeholder cooperative or not.)

Interested in the what-is-a-coop question which transcends any particular jurisdictions legal rules, but especially looking for specific legal types and bylaws for now.


Another definition of hybrid cooperative, which is not a cooperative at all, insamuch as it's not one person (or even entity) one vote, but giving more weight to investors putting in more money
http://newstartmag.co.uk/features/the-hybrid-cooperative/

Looks pretty awesome:
http://www.uwcc.wisc.edu/pdf/multistakeholder%20coop%20manual.pdf

A hypothetical example:
http://msue.anr.msu.edu/news/multi_stakeholder_cooperatives_a_community_example

http://www.smu.ca/webfiles/HybridCooperatives.pdf

http://www.cicopa.coop/IMG/pdf/Solidarity_Co-op_Qc_JPGirard_2002.pdf

Tagged with the term multi-stakeholder cooperative (seems rather loosely...)
http://www.geo.coop/taxonomy/term/157

Oklahoma Food Cooperative (Hybrid Cooperative) [from a Ukranian perspective]
http://www.academia.edu/1623621/Oklahoma_Food_Cooperative_Hybrid_Cooperative_

Searched words: 
multistakeholder, hybrid, or solidarity cooperative

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