Student Theses: Co-op Collection

The following are theses, dissertations, and postdoctoral research projects that have been completed by students with the Centre for the Study of Co-operatives and students supervised by faculty of the Centre for the Study of Co-operatives.

Note that the Interdisciplinary MA Program with a Concentration in Co-operative Studies only came into existence in Spring, 2004.

Masters

In Process

• Rebecca Zagozewski, Towards Community Sustainability: Housing Co-operatives as Learning Organizations (Department of Sociology)

2010

• Fortunate Mavenga, Economic Impact of Credit Unions on Rural Communities (Department of Bioresource Policy, Business, and Economics)
• Kama Soles, Empowerment Through Co-operation: Disability Inclusion via Multi-stakeholder Co-operative Development (Interdisciplinary MA Program, Concentration in Co-operative Studies)

2009

• Michael Chartier, Adult Education and the Social Economy: Re-thinking the Communitarian Pedagogy of Watson Thomson (Department of Educational Foundations, College of Education)

2008

• Nancy Allan, Adding Values to Commerce: The Complementary Practices of Fair Trade Intermediaries and Co-operatives (Department of Sociology)
• Dwayne Pattison, Governance, Membership, and Community: Developing A Regional Consumer Co-operative In Saskatchewan (Interdisciplinary MA Program, Concentration in Co-operative Studies)
• Tim Zagozewski, (Re)making Bread: Industrial Technologies and the Skills of Food Industry Workers (Department of Sociology)

2007

• Juanita Bacsu, Measuring Citizen Attitudes toward Globalization (Department of Political Studies)
• Kimberly Brown, Co-operative Democracy: Board Diversity and the Representation of Women (Department of Political Studies)
• Jason Heit, Organizational Choice and Behaviour: A Framework for Analyzing Decision-Making in Co-operative Organizations (Interdisciplinary MA Program, Concentration in Co-operative Studies)
• Chipo Kangayi, Measuring and Mapping the Impact of the Social Economy: A Case of Co-operatives in Canada (Bioresource Policy, Business and Economics Department)

2006

• Kathy Lang, Cognition, Agency Theory, and Organizational Failure: A Saskatchewan Wheat Pool Case Study (Department of Agricultural Economics)
• Angela Wagner, Membership Identity and Consumer Behaviour: The Case of Consumer Co-operatives (Department of Geography)

2004

• Julie Gibbings, Becoming Green Citizens and Other Subjects: Community Forests in the Mayan Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala (Department of History)
• Karla Hardcastle, Co-operative and State Ownership in Northern Saskatchewan under the CCF Government (Department of Political Studies)

2000

• Samadanie Kiriwandeniya, Promoting Gender Emancipation through Credit Co-operatives: A Study of the SANASA Movement in Sri Lanka (Department of Sociology)

1996

• Lenore Swystun, Women in Farming: A Social Economy of Multi-Family and Single Family Farms in Saskatchewan (Department of Sociology)

Doctoral

In Process

• Monica Juarez Adeler, E-Commerce Transactions and Co-operative Membership: A Comparative Study of Canada and the European Union (Interdisciplinary PhD program, Concentration in Co-operative Studies)
• Douglas Akhimienmhonan, Analysis of the Group Lending Programs of Vancity Credit Union (Department of Bioresource Policy, Business and Economics)
• Maria Basualdo, Indigenous Women’s Community Development: A Comparison of Canada and Latin America (Interdisciplinary PhD program, Concentration in Co-operative Studies)
• Michael Chartier, A Whiteheadian Approach to Ethical Decision Making: How Could It Facilitate Effective Co-operative Governance? (Interdisciplinary PhD program, Concentration in Co-operative Studies)
• Mitch Diamontopoulos, Globalization, Innovation, and Co-operative Development: The Cases of Saskatchewan and Quebec (Interdisciplinary PhD program, Concentration in Co-operative Studies)
• Robert Dobrohoczki, Re-engaging Citizens: Co-operatives as Public Policy Instruments for Democratic Renewal (Interdisciplinary PhD program, Concentration in Co-operative Studies)
• Patricia Elliot, Measuring the Social Economy of Community Media (Interdisciplinary PhD program, Concentration in Co-operative Studies)
• Annette Johnson, Finding a Way Out: An Investigation into the Amalgamation of Worker Co-ops and Canadian Unions (Interdisciplinary PhD program, Concentration in Co-operative Studies)
• Lampros Laprinakis, Cognitive Dissonance, Mental Frames and the Financial Value of Agricultural Co-operatives (Department of Agricultural Economics)
• Mark McCulloch, “Women’s Groups and Consumer Co-operatives in East Germany, 1949–71 (Department of History)

2010

• Rochelle Smith, The Relationship of Saskatchewan’s Co-operative Community Clinics with the Government of Saskatchewan: Towards a New Understanding (Interdisciplinary PhD program, Concentration in Co-operative Studies)
• Nicoleta Uzea, Co-operation and Co-ordination in the Co-operative Retailing System: Essays on Economic and Identity Strategies (Department of Bioresource Policy, Business, and Economics)
• Wu Hao Tao, An Economic Analysis of Microcredit Lending [Experience from Canada’s Credit Unions] (Bioresource Policy, Business and Economics Department)
• Zhao Jun, The Political Economy of Farmer Co-operative Development in China (Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy)

Post Doctoral

In Process

• Catherine Leviten-Reid, Quality and Human Resource Issues in Child Care in Canada: A Comparison of Co-operative, Non-profit, and For-profit Organizations (Centre for the Study of Co-operatives)