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Abstract
Organizational charts of membership structures can be useful tools for monitoring
member control when they accurately depict a concept of control grounded in context
and theory. This paper develops the concept "member control" by placing it within
cooperative principles and democratic theory. From this perspective, members control
their organization when, through a democratic process of decision making, they are able
to keep the cooperative a cooperative, a condition we call "containment." With this
conceptual development, a containment method of member control charting is developed
and illustrative examples given.