State and transforming institutional logics: the emergence and demise of Ottoman cooperatives as hybrid organizational forms, 1861-1888


Soydemir C. O., Erçek M.

BUSINESS HISTORY, 2020 (SSCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası:
  • Basım Tarihi: 2020
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1080/00076791.2020.1802429
  • Dergi Adı: BUSINESS HISTORY
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, IBZ Online, International Bibliography of Social Sciences, ABI/INFORM, American History and Life, Business Source Elite, Business Source Premier, EconLit, Geobase, Historical Abstracts, PAIS International, Public Affairs Index, Sociological abstracts
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Institutional logics, organizational form, hybrid organizing, cooperative, the Ottoman State, CREDIT COOPERATIVES, HISTORICAL RESEARCH, SELF-HELP, RAIFFEISEN, MOVEMENT, BANKING, COMMUNITY, GERMANY, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, GOVERNANCE
  • İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

This study demonstrates the emergence, subsequent diffusion, and early demise of Ottoman agricultural credit cooperatives, called Memleket Sandiks (OMSs), as they represent unique hybrid forms that blend state, community, and market logics in a single organizational configuration. The study narrates how changes in the Ottoman Empire's institutional order during the Tanzimat era enabled conditions that led to the emergence of OMSs. Subsequently, the practices of the form transformed, especially after the Russian-Ottoman War, concomitant with further changes in Ottoman society's institutional order. Although OMSs initially enjoyed legitimacy granted by the Ottoman State, the shift towards dominating state logic in the Hamidian era led to the erosion of practices animated by market and community logics. The form was discontinued as the increasingly autocratic state levied taxes and preyed upon the accumulated surplus, which disabled agglomerative capacity of sandiks and diminished the solidarity among cooperative members.