Cooperatives in IT sector: theoretical and practical aspects
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Date
2019-08
Authors
Honcharenko V.
Panteleimonenko A.
Pozhar A.
Stetsenko V.
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Information technologies are developing rapidly. The number of people
envolved in IT sector is also growing fast. Users, freelancers, software
developers, IT companies create various formal and non-formal interest
groups: community, hackathons, co-workings, hackerspaces, IT-clusters, and
others. IT-cooperative is one of these new, very promising, but yet littleknown forms. The article reveals the features of cooperative as a unique form
of business based on solidarity and ethical principles. The article shows the
reasons of cooperatives emergence, their types and varieties, features and
extent of development in the world and in separate sectors of economy of
different countries. The basic cooperative principles, which make coops
unique and distinguish them from other forms of business activity, are
analyzed. The experience and activity of individual IT-cooperatives in
different countries are generalized. The emphasis is made on the benefits
cooperative business model can provide the IT specialists with. Several
possible promising models of IT-cooperatives are developed. There is not
information about existence of such models yet, but they can be created
potentially
Keywords
Cooperatives, IT-cooperatives, Co-operative models, Information Technologies