Cheney, George2026-03-042026-03-042002-09Cheney, G. E. (2002). Sustainable community economic development: What lessons can the Tongan Vision Project of Aotearoa/New Zealand learn from the Mondragon Experience? Journal of Maori and Pacific Development: He Puna Korero, 3(2), 2-13.1175-3099https://hdl.handle.net/10289/18020This 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.enAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Pacific economic developmentTongan community initiativesTongan diasporaNew Zealand Pacific communitiesJournal Article10.15663/K10.140413021-5668