Visualising Organisations Over Time and Space - The Visual Atlas of the Australian Cooperatives

Patmore, G; Balnave, N; Marjanovic, O

Visualising Organisations Over Time and Space - The Visual Atlas of the Australian Cooperatives

Patmore, G Balnave, N Marjanovic, O

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Citation:: Contemporary Issues in Work and Organisations Actors and Institutions, 2020, pp. 143-156
Issue Date:: 2020

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dc.contributor.author	Balnave, N
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dc.identifier.citation	Contemporary Issues in Work and Organisations Actors and Institutions, 2020, pp. 143-156
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dc.description.abstract	The International Co-operative Alliance (ICA, 2018a)–the international umbrella organisation of member-owned co-operatives–defines a co-operative as‘an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly-owned and democratically-controlled enterprise’. Five broad types, or traditions, of co-operative activity have developed internationally since the mid-nineteenth century: retail (or consumer);financial (orbanking); agricultural (including fishing, marketing, processing and supply); worker;and services. While co-operatives are governed by a set of principles, which were originally inspired by the Rochdale consumer co-operative movement, these have changed over time. The seven current principles include‘voluntary and open membership’,‘democratic member control’and‘concern for community’(ICA, 2018a). In an inter-national context, the ICA has 313 member organisations from 109 countries and co-operatives have an estimated 1.2 billion members and generate 280 million part- and full-time jobs worldwide (ICA, 2018b). There are an estimated 2,000 co-operative and mutual businesses operating in Australia with total memberships of 14.8 million (Busi-ness Council of Co-operatives and Mutuals, 2018).This chapter will examine the Visual Atlas of Australian Co-operatives History Project (VAACHP), which tries to map Australian co-operatives over time and space. It combines history with emerging visualisation approaches in information technology and draws upon skills from academics in the two areas.It first examines the background to the project drawing upon the historio-graphical literature on co-operatives particularly regarding Australia and then explores internationally the ideas that explain the formation, growth, decline and survival of co-operatives. The chapter then focuses on the project itself and concludes with some early findings, particularly regarding the dramatic growth in co-operatives following the First World War in Western Australia (WA)..
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dc.title	Visualising Organisations Over Time and Space - The Visual Atlas of the Australian Cooperatives
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Abstract:

The International Co-operative Alliance (ICA, 2018a)–the international umbrella organisation of member-owned co-operatives–defines a co-operative as‘an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly-owned and democratically-controlled enterprise’. Five broad types, or traditions, of co-operative activity have developed internationally since the mid-nineteenth century: retail (or consumer);financial (orbanking); agricultural (including fishing, marketing, processing and supply); worker;and services. While co-operatives are governed by a set of principles, which were originally inspired by the Rochdale consumer co-operative movement, these have changed over time. The seven current principles include‘voluntary and open membership’,‘democratic member control’and‘concern for community’(ICA, 2018a). In an inter-national context, the ICA has 313 member organisations from 109 countries and co-operatives have an estimated 1.2 billion members and generate 280 million part- and full-time jobs worldwide (ICA, 2018b). There are an estimated 2,000 co-operative and mutual businesses operating in Australia with total memberships of 14.8 million (Busi-ness Council of Co-operatives and Mutuals, 2018).This chapter will examine the Visual Atlas of Australian Co-operatives History Project (VAACHP), which tries to map Australian co-operatives over time and space. It combines history with emerging visualisation approaches in information technology and draws upon skills from academics in the two areas.It first examines the background to the project drawing upon the historio-graphical literature on co-operatives particularly regarding Australia and then explores internationally the ideas that explain the formation, growth, decline and survival of co-operatives. The chapter then focuses on the project itself and concludes with some early findings, particularly regarding the dramatic growth in co-operatives following the First World War in Western Australia (WA)..

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