Teorías de entrepreneurship y cooperativismo de trabajo asociado. Fundamentos teóricos y evidencias empíricas en la creación de CTA.

Based on a review of the different theoretical arguments and main empirical works related to the creation of companies, this work aims to identify the theories that best explain the genesis and development of worker's cooperatives, which in Spain are called associated labour cooperatives, and determine the main attributes of this type of cooperative from the perspective of independent entrepreneurs. The main propositions that emerge from this work are based on empirical argument from a study conducted in 44 associated labour cooperatives and 44 traditional capitalist firms in the region of Valencia (Spain), the latter serving as a control group. The findings suggest that some of the theories of what is known as the sociocultural approach to entrepreneurship provide the best explanation for the workers' cooperative ventures and that the cooperative entrepreneur is characterized by attributes corresponding to the collective entrepreneur, networking entrepreneur and, in some respects, the informal entrepreneur. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]