Institucionalización de la economía popular y solidaria : arraigo político y lógicas de acción en tensión en el Ecuador y en Bolivia
(2019)
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- Lemaître, Andreia
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- In Ecuador and Bolivia, the notion of economic pluralism has been formally included in the public policy of “Buen vivir” of Correa’s and Morales’ governments. However, the operationalization of its content is played out in a wide field of tensions between the logics underpinning the programs that promote the solidarity-based economy and the ways organizations operate. Through an inductive approach (grounded theory) and in the light of the notion of political embeddedness, inspired by Polanyi's work, this thesis examines the historical processes of solidarity economy institutionalization in both geographical contexts. I question, on the one hand, the effects of an emblematic program on the practices of production, exchange, management and governance of the target organizations and, on the other hand, the collective action that the latter deploys to tackle the pressures of government intervention. The results from in-depth case studies with organizations suggest that those programs tend to overestimate the solidarity economy inscription in the market —through imperatives of technification, professionalization, among others, according to a formal conception of the economy— to the detriment of other logics such as reciprocity and householding. Hence the tendency of organizations to homogenize their behavior (institutional isomorphism), which leads to the erosion of substantive economic practices (e.g., specialization vs. diversification of production, capital increase at the expense of work remuneration and social protection). To cope with these tensions, organizations engage in strategies of adaptation, inter-cooperation, or resistance to the current public policy. Organizations thus can no longer be regarded as passive receptors of institutional prescriptions: they are likely to interpret and challenge the formal institutions by their enrollment in public action. By combining macro-institutional and micro-social analysis, this research aims to contribute to the debates on the institutionalization of economic pluralism, in particular by highlighting a long-term dynamic of mutual influence between solidarity economy and state action in Latin America.
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Ruiz Rivera, M. J. (2019). Institucionalización de la economía popular y solidaria : arraigo político y lógicas de acción en tensión en el Ecuador y en Bolivia. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/239931