Foundations for the evaluation of the administration in cooperative companies

Abstract

It has been observed with concern the limitations that cooperatives present, so much to be carried out as a competitive managerial movement, as well as to develop their social action.

In this context one of the big challenges of the cooperative movement has consisted on demonstrating that can be combined the social cooperative philosophy with the competitiveness, the managerial excellence and the success in the productive activities. 

To establish the general elements that should be contained in a system analysis that allows evaluating the cooperative integral administration that includes in their action fields the productive economic administration and the social responsibility, is the objective of this work.  

In consequence with the mentioned above, this work approached the theoretical and methodological foundations that sustain the integrated evaluation of the administration of cooperative companies, in of the economic and environmental dimensions and in quality life.

The main used methods were: documental analysis, historical method, dialectical method and systemic method, that allowed toestablish the fundamental categories to evaluate the administration of the cooperatives, being this the main obtained result.