Dr. Ana Maria Peredo, the Director for the Centre of Co-operative and Community-based Economy at the University of Victoria is granted the Craigdarroch Research Award for dissemination. She has served on several committees to organize international conferences and she is also known for many “lunch and learn” events at the Centre where she invites both academics and the community alike. Congratulations Ana Maria!
Ana Maria Peredo from the Gustavson School of Business, Centre for Co-operative and Community Based Economy and University of Victoria would like to invite papers for this special journal edition of the journal Organization.
Examples of key themes for investigation allowing for further international comparisons include:
1. The organizational resources, structures, and dynamics allowing for social as well as economic resilience in worker cooperatives;
2. The changing roles of leadership in worker cooperatives: considering for example the interplay of various forms of leadership from charismatic to collaborative or group-based;
3. The capacity of and obstacles to the reinvention of democracy within cooperatives, including means to manage and solve conflicts between different goals, sectors, and constituencies (for example, concerning the relationship between worker-member-owners and temporary workers);
4. The relationships between cooperatives and organized labour, the state, the community, and the larger financial system;
5. Maintaining cooperative values while facing crises of participation, identity, and shared ownership and decision making within a system undergoing international expansion.
Papers should be no more than 8,000 words, excluding references, and will be blind reviewed following the journal’s standard procedures. Manuscripts should be prepared according to the guidelines published in Organization and on the journal’s website
For more information, contact Ana Maria Peredo aperedo@uvic.ca
Association for NonProfit and Social Economy Research
Nonprofits and the Social Economy @the Edge
Sixth Annual Conference
June 5 to June 7, 2013
University of Victoria
Call for papers
Association de recherche sur les organismes sans but lucratif et l’économie sociale (ARES)
Appel à communications
CONFÉRENCE 2013 ANSER/ARES
Nouvelles perspectives de l’économie sociale et communautaire
Sixième conférence annuelle
5 juin au 7 juin 2013
Université de Victoria
The Institute will explore generally how co-operatives contribute, directly and indirectly, to more peaceful communities through the application of their values and principles, their capacity to include people from different backgrounds and their concentration on specific, achievable objectives. The Institute will be formally established on January 1, 2013.
It will be located in the Centre for Global Studies at the University of Victoria. The Executive Committee consists of: Charles Gould, Executive Director of the International Co-operative Alliance, Yehudah Paz from the Negev Institute for Strategies of Peace and Development, Ian MacPherson, Emeritus Professor of History, the University of Victoria. A fourth person, yet to be appointed, will come from the Centre for Global Studies. An Advisory Board of 14 people, drawn from around the world as well as Victoria, is being appointed.
Please communicate with Ian MacPherson at ianmacphers@gmail.com
Canadian Co-operative Research Network 