Organization for the good life. Case study of organizations in the cooperative sector in the province Azuay in Ecuador, and his contributions to the good life of the populations and their territories [Organización para el buen vivir. Estudio de caso de organizaciones del sector cooperativo en la provincia del Azuay (Ecuador) y sus aportes al buen vivir de las poblaciones y sus territorios]

Abstract

Cooperative organizations are defined as voluntary associations of people united to achieve a purpose or satisfy a common need, under firm principles and ethical values, participation, continuing education, and commitment to nature, being these constituent elements of the ideal of the Good Living/Sumak Kawsay, this study begins by establishing a critical reading of the ideological stands that restrict the possibilities of expansion of the social organization and suggest the key elements that justify the existence of the social organization as part of a process very linked to the generation of new paradigms of development, concluding by way of illustration, with an approach to certain organizations of this type in the province of Azuay, locate its pillars of organizational performance through monitoring of its history and its future prospects.