Changing the Mindset: Cooperatives and Complexity—Looking into the Future

The chapter highlights the nature of the cooperative enterprise model, its inherent feature to form purpose-driven complex networks, and its potential to impact the socio-economic transformation required for a sustainable system. We revisit the sources of unsustainability identified in the 1970s and explore what role cooperatives can play in setting the stage for the needed transformation. The cooperative model offers the radical imagination required for system transformation—a different mindset placing the enterprise firmly in the social sphere of influence and concern.