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Grocery Cooperatives as Governing Institutions in Neighborhood Commercial Corridors
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Grocery Cooperatives as Governing Institutions in Neighborhood Commercial Corridors

Andrew Zitcer and Richardson Dilworth
Urban affairs review (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), v 55(2), pp 558-590
01 Mar 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1078087417709999
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Abstract

Social Sciences Urban Studies
We explore cooperatives' potential to play governing roles in neighborhood commercial corridors (NCCs) by examining one grocery cooperative in Philadelphia that has had stores on three NCCs in the city. We distinguish between an anchor institution role, where one organization provides collective goods for the corridor, and governance, where multiple corridor stakeholders collectively provide goods. We conclude that a cooperative will more likely play a governance role if it enters an NCC at a point when there are no other potential corridor-governing organizations, and when the NCC itself is at an early stage of development or redevelopment. What this suggests more generally about NCCs is that the organizations present at their founding or at a critical juncture have a large impact on their future developmental trajectories. We argue further that a cooperative is more likely to play a governance role when it was created by neighborhood stakeholders and it thus reflects the distinct social norms of the neighborhood.

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