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Lou Hammond Ketilson

Director, Centre for the Study of Co-operatives
Associate Professor, Department of Management and Marketing, Edwards School of Business
Fellow in Co-operative Leadership
Centre for the Study of Co-operatives
University of Saskatchewan
101 Diefenbaker Place
Saskatoon, SK
S7N 5B8

ph: 306.966.5844
fax: 306.966.8517
email: hammondk@edwards.usask.ca


Designations

  • PhD, University Saskatchewan
  • MBA, University of Saskatchewan
  • BA Honours, University of Saskatchewan
Lou came to the centre in 1985 and also holds an appointment in the Department of Management and Marketing, Edwards School of Business. Her research interests include management in co-operatives and other democratic organizations, community development, women in co-operatives, Aboriginal co-op development, and diversity on co-op boards and governance bodies. After serving a five-year term as associate dean in the College of Commerce, Lou became acting director of the centre in July 2004 and assumed the formal directorship in April 2005.

Publications by Lou Hammond Ketilson with the Centre for the Study of Co-operatives are:
  • The Impact of Retail Co-operative Amalgamations in Western Canada. Lou Hammond Ketilson, Roger Herman, and Dwayne Pattison (100 p., Occasional Paper), 2011.
  • Models for Effective Credit Union Governance: Maintaining Community Connections following a Merger. Lou Hammond Ketilson and Kimberly Brown (82 p., Occasional Paper), 2011.
  • Financing Aboriginal Enterprise Development: The Potential of Using Co-operative Models. Lou Hammond Ketilson and Kimberly Brown (104 p., Occasional Paper), 2009.
  • Revisiting the Role of Co-operative Values and Principles: Do They Act to Include or Exclude? Lou Hammond Ketilson (22 p.), 2006.
  • A Report on Aboriginal Co-operatives in Canada: Current Situation and Potential for Growth. Lou Hammond Ketilson and Ian MacPherson (400 p.), 2002.
  • The Social and Economic Importance of the Co-operative Sector in Saskatchewan. Lou Hammond Ketilson, Michael Gertler, Murray Fulton, Roy Dobson, and Leslie Polsom (244 p.), 1998.
  • Credit Unions and Community Economic Development. Brett Fairbairn, Lou Hammond Ketilson, and Peter Krebs (32 p.), 1997.
  • Research for Action: Women in Co-operatives. Leona Theis and Lou Hammond Ketilson (98 p.), 1994.
  • The Co-operative Sector in Saskatchewan: A Statistical Overview. Louise Simbandumwe, Murray Fulton, and Lou Hammond Ketilson (54 p., Occasional Paper), 1991.
  • Community-Based Models of Health Care: A Bibliography. Lou Hammond Ketilson and Michael Quennell (66 p., Occasional Paper), 1990.
  • The Management of Co-operatives: A Bibliography. Lou Hammond Ketilson, Bonnie Korthuis, and Colin Boyd (144 p., Occasional Paper), 1987.

A Featured Publication by Lou Hammond Ketilson

Resilience of the Cooperative Model in Times of Crisis. Johnston Birchall and Lou Hammond Ketilson ; International Labour Office, Sustainable Enterprise Programme. Geneva: ILO, 2009.

The financial and ensuing economic crisis has had negative impacts on the majority of enterprises; however, co-operative enterprises around the world are showing resilience to the crisis. This report provides historical evidence and current empirical evidence that proves that the co-operative model of enterprise survives crisis, but more importantly that it is a sustainable form of enterprise able to withstand crisis, maintaining the livelihoods of the communities in which they operate. It further suggest ways in which the ILO can strengthen its activity in the promotion of co-operatives as a means to address the current economic crisis and avert future crisis.

Full Report (PDF)