Expanded A first approach to the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals in industrial cooperatives in Catalonia

There is an abundance of literature linking cooperatives as organizations whose praxis contributes to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The basis of the argument focuses on the principles in which cooperativism is framed and the purpose of these business organizations. This article seeks, in a very introductory and exploratory way, to contrast the extent to which cooperatives have internalized the will to contribute to sustainable development and to what extent they apply it in practice. To this end, a survey has been carried out that has been answered by 75 of the 236 active industrial cooperatives in Catalonia and a comparative analysis has been carried out with capitalist-based companies. The results, which are indicative given the size of the sample, indicate that there is a clear conceptual alignment but that there is still a clear path to travel in practice.