The principle of open and voluntary membership. Legal and enforcing economic consequences practice, in the Costa Rican cooperative movement

  • Ligia Roxana Sánchez Boza National University of Costa Rica
Keywords: cooperatives, general cooperative principles, the right to cooperative membership, the principle of voluntary membership, socio-economic effects of the membership

Abstract

The basis of the cooperative principle of free adhesion or voluntary adherence is found in the constitutional rules, which define the Right of Association. The legal and regulatory development of these rules is done through cooperative laws, acts of constitution and other rules of affiliation and disaffiliation of cooperatives. The application of the principle in the study must be interdependent with the rest of the Cooperative Principles as well as the Values of the Cooperatives, in order to ensure adequate protection for both the associate and the associated cooperative. In this paper of the principle in the study is made through the election of a cooperative, in most cases, credit unions. These cooperatives, for reasons of their economic activity, have more legal and regulatory regulations compared to the other types of cooperatives, according the effects of affiliation and disaffiliation.

Received: 01 June 2017
Accepted: 14 October 2017
Published online: 22 December 2017

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Author Biography

Ligia Roxana Sánchez Boza, National University of Costa Rica
Catedrática de la Universidad de Costa Rica
Published
2017-12-22
How to Cite
Sánchez Boza, Ligia Roxana. 2017. “The Principle of Open and Voluntary Membership. Legal and Enforcing Economic Consequences Practice, in the Costa Rican Cooperative Movement”. International Association of Cooperative Law Journal, no. 51 (December), 45-61. https://doi.org/10.18543/baidc-51-2017pp45-61.