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Loose Change and Governance Cleveland’s Evergreen Worker Owned Cooperative Initiative

Loose Change and Governance Cleveland’s Evergreen Worker Owned Cooperative Initiative. Nicholas C. Zingale, PhD – Cleveland State University Aritree Samanta , PhD Candidate – Cleveland State University Deborah Riemann, Planner Esther West, Graduate Student – Cleveland State University

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Loose Change and Governance Cleveland’s Evergreen Worker Owned Cooperative Initiative

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  1. Loose Change and GovernanceCleveland’s Evergreen Worker Owned Cooperative Initiative Nicholas C. Zingale, PhD – Cleveland State University AritreeSamanta, PhD Candidate – Cleveland State University Deborah Riemann, Planner Esther West, Graduate Student – Cleveland State University Cleveland State University College of urban affairs College conference August 21, 2014

  2. Authorizing Environment New Governance • Social Entrepreneurship • Loose networks of accountability • Reduced executive power • Reliance on diplomacy • Enabling/Technology Skills • Principal-Agent • Legal accountability • Lines of authority • Reliance on performance objectives • Relational and Contracting Skills Constrained Loose • Administrative Bureaucrat • Hierarchical accountability • High level of executive power • Reliance on rules • Mgmt. and Organizational Skills • Street Level Bureaucrat • Individual accountability • Limited executive power • Reliance on experience • Discretionary Skills Direct Government Adapted from Rush and Zingale 2014 - Permission Granted

  3. Social Entrepreneurship and Bricolage Evergreen Coop Process: social entrepreneurship and bricolage within loosely structured networks. • Social Entrepreneurship • Mission focus • Areas with neglect by government, market • Blurred lines between business, social enterprises. • Can be private, socially-driven enterprises. • Operation has some differences from traditional market operating norms. • Bricolage • Making do with what is on hand. • Combination of resources for new purposes. • Using the resources at hand – Often in a low resource environment • Multiplex Ties

  4. Realm of New Ideas Describes the Openness to New Ideas Adaptation Freedom within the Rules Existing Elements Examples: Eds and Meds in Cleveland New niche in existing ecosystem Transformation Freedom to play around with rules New elements Examples: Advent of the Internet New ecosystems Realm of Rules Describes the constraints in society in the form of formal and informal rules • Disruption/Situational • Rules no longer make sense • Element Chaos/Breakdown • Examples: • De-industrialization • Disaster that wipes out ecosystem Status Quo Rules determine discourse Element Maintenance Examples: Steel industry in Cleveland Maintain existing ecosystem niche

  5. How did a worker cooperative in Cleveland establish and authorizing environment in the absence of policy and direct governmental involvement? Cleveland Evergreen Cooperative ??????

  6. EVERGREENCOOPERATIVEINITIATIVE Generate Wealth For Residents Stabilize Neighborhoods Create Jobs BUILDING COMMUNITY WEALTH TO TRANSFORM CLEVELAND AND CHANGE LIVES

  7. Evergreen Organizational Structure This is a test box Test box As Sadf asdf Test text

  8. Method Observations Interviews Document Review Literature

  9. Findings (So Far) - Loose Change Legacy City and Loose Space (Context) Informal Networks and Loose Governance (Process) Change of Doxa New Ideas Bricolage (Imagination -Freedom) Change Unconstrained by Rule (People -bricoleurs)

  10. There is money involved, but not entirely the kind we normally think of…more like loose change Cleveland Evergreen Cooperative Social Entrepreneurship Loose space Loose governance New Elements Making Do Bricolage Tinkering Playing with rules Authorizing Environment

  11. What this means • Looseness tends to create crawling space • Openings for new ideas – less resistance • Resiliency implies a condition toward stability (often associated with control and structure). Resiliency might actually require loosening • Democratized wealth for stabilizing communities • Democratized power for learning and working out interests • Social Entrepreneurship and Bricolage is capable of leveraging resources across a diverse set of loosely connected networks to create the conditions of a high resource initiative within a low resource context. • Anchors institutions tell part of the story (flashlight in a cave) • Shedding light on societal doxa to see what is around (lantern in a cave) • It is accomplished as loose change – informal processes involving networks and reduced executive power (governance), diplomacy (politics/enabling), imagination (new ideas)

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