How do Directors Contribute to the Implementation of a Democratic and Strategic Governance in Agricultural Cooperatives? the Limagrain Experience
Based on a research of four years inside the agricultural cooperative Limagrain, this article shows how directors tackle major governance issues that these economic structures usually face: involvement of cooperators, formulation of a sustainable strategy and control of executives. Our results document what directors do inside but also outside governance structures to solve governance issues. Doing so we propose new theoretical insights regarding the governance as practice research stream in organizational contexts characterized by economic democracy.