Dr. Korten describes his vision of the future as a network of locally and cooperatively owned businesses.
Mondragon was built on the firm belief that the only way to understand and experience democracy was through the creation of cooperatively-organized business.
Community land trusts, farmers markets, local currencies and time banking, micro-energy installations, shared cars and bicycles, cooperatively owned businesses are among the innovations that give people the means to live well on less and build community.
While we always prefer to work cooperatively with businesses, on occasion even years of dialogue can yield no benefit for animals and it becomes necessary to publicly call on a company to do the right thing.
From that humble beginning, Mondragon has grown so that today it has more than 80,000 people employed in an integrated group of over 280 cooperatively owned businesses, subsidiaries and affiliated organizations, sales of more than 14 billion euros, and 100 production centers around the world.
The manufacturers are working more cooperatively with such businesses as a result.
Researchers, governments and businesses must cooperatively develop ethical guidelines that help to ensure a responsible use of AI to the benefit of all.
It is all a far cry from their 1997 manifesto pledge: "Our fundamental purpose is simple but hugely important: to restore the NHS as a public service working cooperatively for patients not a commercial business driven by competition".
Hanna believed, like many conservative businessmen of his time, that labor, business, and government should work together cooperatively for the benefit of society.
Talking may have taken place at the dinner board, but since family members likely worked cooperatively on a farm or in a family business, catching up was not so important.
