Trends in the development of economic and production management in kibbutzim are examined in a general comparative framework of productive cooperation and self-management. The influence of such internal processes on the single SM enterprise's ability of survival in and coping with a capitalist economic environment is studied with reference to the concept of 'degeneration of cooperatives'. (Webb, 1899)
Bad organization can often mean defeat. This is a truism. More interesting,however,is the fact that good organization can also lead to defeat, i.e., for the purposes, goals and interests which were the original reasons that the grouporganized. (Abrahamsson, 1977: 227)
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