EMERGENCE OF NEW ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY IN SELECTIVE COLLECTION COOPERATIVES

For Organizational Ecologythe adventof anew populationismarked bya range ofindefinitions,as the parametersofan organizational form. Thepurpose of this studyis bothto identifythe key featuresof theorganizational formof selective collection cooperatives, astheir establishment. The methodologyadoptedisexploratory research.The result of theanalysis showedthepresence ofvarious forms ofselective collection cooperatives, definedby theresource niches, which definethe formal structure(blueprint) of the organization. Identified also thenon-uniformitybetween thepolitical legitimacyandsocial legitimacydrivingforthe no establishmentof this neworganizational form.