TY - JOUR
T1 - The resurrection of earlier imprints post mortem
T2 - Explaining the Turkish agricultural cooperative movement with an imprinting theory lens, 1888–1937
AU - Soydemir, Cemil Ozan
AU - Erçek, Mehmet
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Edgard Milhaud Foundation.
PY - 2023/12
Y1 - 2023/12
N2 - This study aims to extend the cooperative lifecycle theory, which builds on consecutive degeneration and regeneration of ideal cooperative values such as democracy, self-help, and solidarity by offering a new regenerative mechanism. In this respect, the study imports multilevel imprinting theory from the organizational ecology domain to explicate the punctuated evolutionary pattern of Turkish agricultural credit cooperatives, which displayed significantly different characteristics from Raiffeisen cooperatives that cooperative discourse in Türkiye used for a long as a benchmark. The archival research undertaken in the study asserts that the imprints of Ottoman Memleket Sandiks (OMS) have stamped agricultural credit cooperatives of the Republican era long after their erosion. The resurrection of imprints was enabled by Ziraat Bank, which acted as an intermediary organization and took over the remnants of OMSs. Our analyses also suggest that the State's polity and policy transformations culminate in selective activation of past imprints within the Ziraat Bank, which, in turn, shaped the Turkish agricultural cooperative field.
AB - This study aims to extend the cooperative lifecycle theory, which builds on consecutive degeneration and regeneration of ideal cooperative values such as democracy, self-help, and solidarity by offering a new regenerative mechanism. In this respect, the study imports multilevel imprinting theory from the organizational ecology domain to explicate the punctuated evolutionary pattern of Turkish agricultural credit cooperatives, which displayed significantly different characteristics from Raiffeisen cooperatives that cooperative discourse in Türkiye used for a long as a benchmark. The archival research undertaken in the study asserts that the imprints of Ottoman Memleket Sandiks (OMS) have stamped agricultural credit cooperatives of the Republican era long after their erosion. The resurrection of imprints was enabled by Ziraat Bank, which acted as an intermediary organization and took over the remnants of OMSs. Our analyses also suggest that the State's polity and policy transformations culminate in selective activation of past imprints within the Ziraat Bank, which, in turn, shaped the Turkish agricultural cooperative field.
KW - agricultural credit cooperatives
KW - hermeneutical discourse analysis
KW - imprinting
KW - life cycle theory
KW - regeneration
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U2 - 10.1111/apce.12398
DO - 10.1111/apce.12398
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85142301272
SN - 1370-4788
VL - 94
SP - 1199
EP - 1232
JO - Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics
JF - Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics
IS - 4
ER -