Through the comparison of conventional firms (CFs) with worker cooperatives (WCs), which are a type of collective enterprise with significant experience in cooperation, this research aims to analyse the influence of external cooperation on the two most prominent factors for the success of enterprises: entrepreneurship and innovation. To this end, a research model is proposed based on contributions from the stakeholders’ perspective of the resource-based view of the firm and tested with data from a survey conducted on WCs and CFs located in two Spanish regions with a long tradition in the cooperative movement. The results highlight that the influence of external cooperation on innovation performance is more relevant for WCs and demonstrate that these collective firms are not disadvantaged in innovation compared to CFs. Furthermore, the results suggest that WCs have a more remarkable ability to compete and cooperate simultaneously, that is, to coopete, due to their participative nature.

通过对传统企业（CF）和工人合作社（WC）（一种具有丰富合作经验的集体企业类型）的比较，本研究旨在分析外部合作对企业成功的两个最重要因素的影响：创业创新。为此，根据利益相关者对公司资源基础观点的贡献提出了一个研究模型，并使用对位于西班牙两个具有合作社悠久传统的地区的WC和CF进行的调查数据进行了测试。移动。结果强调，外部合作对创新绩效的影响与集体企业更为相关，并表明与集体企业相比，这些集体企业在创新方面并不处于劣势。此外，结果表明，由于WC的参与性，它们具有更显着的同时竞争和合作的能力，即合作。