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A searchable directory of platform cooperatives, cooperative ecosystem organizations, and people working in the field.
The directory turns an abstract model into a set of organizations and people that readers can inspect by name, description, and tags.
Founders, researchers, and organizers looking for examples or potential peers after learning the basic platform-cooperative model.
Heirloom Library entries are summaries and wayfinding notes. The original source is the best place to read the full resource.
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arXiv
A research paper reviewing data cooperatives as democratic models for collectively managing and benefiting from data.
arXiv
An academic paper examining whether peer production projects become more oligarchic as they grow.
Aspen Institute
A Rutgers and Aspen Institute research brief summarizing recent evidence on employee ownership, ESOP participation, wealth, job quality, and firm outcomes.
The Platform Co-op Directory is a free discovery tool for finding cooperatives and other participants in the platform-cooperative community. It is maintained in partnership with the Platform Cooperativism Consortium and the Inclusive Design Research Centre.
Use it after an introductory model explainer, when concrete examples or contacts are more valuable than another definition. Entries are submitted by organizations and individuals or carried over from earlier surveys, so inclusion is not independent verification; confirm current ownership, activity, and claims directly before treating an entry as a case study or partner lead.