Cooperative entrepreneurship in Morocco: How is it like and where is it heading?

Abstract

The cooperative sector has developed remarkably over the last few decades and now plays a key role in society, combining economic efficiency with social benefits. Moreover, entrepreneurship is seen worldwide as the driving force behind development, creating value, jobs and other socio-economic benefits through market activities at both national and international level. Thus, cooperative entrepreneurship aims to respond to unmet societal needs through the creation of economic projects whose social purpose is, among other things, to combat poverty and unemployment, contribute to territorial development and promote the position of women and their independence. The aim of this article is to identify the challenges and impact of cooperative entrepreneurship in a purely Moroccan context.

We will begin our narrative documentary study with a review of the literature on entrepreneurship and its historical evolution, the social and solidarity economy and cooperative entrepreneurship in the Moroccan context, its characteristics and the challenges it faces.