Sustainable community economic development: What lessons can the Tongan Vision Project of Aotearoa/New Zealand learn from the Mondragon Experience?

Abstract

This paper provides readers with information about the Mondragón cooperatives, two corporate groups of worker-owned-and-governed co-ops, located in the middle of the Basque Country, Spain. It draws a number of lessons from the experience of these co-operatives and discusses these lessons in the context of the Tongan Vision Project (TVP) of Aotearoa/New Zealand, a sustainable community economic development project established in January 2000.