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Congress 2007 – Tuesday Schedule

Last Updated on September 19th, 2008
 

TUESDAY, MAY 29

CONGRESS 2007 WOMEN’S THEME DAY

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8:30 AM – 8:45 AM

Researching the Social Economy and Social Cohesion
Chad Gaffield, President
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)

8:45 AM – 9:30 AM

Co-operative Innovation: Influencing the Social Economy
Brett Fairbairn, Professor and Head
U of S Department of History

9:30 AM – 10:30 AM
Session 1A – Co-operatives and Innovation
Ian MacPherson, chair



    

  1. Leslie Brown and Elizabeth Hicks
    

    
A Co-operative Retail Grocery Store? Customers’ Community Co-operative and Stakeholder Views of the “Co-operative Difference”
    2. 

  2. Akira Kurimoto
    
 
    
Co-opertaive Innovation in Business Models: From Joint Buying to Individual Home Delivery
    3. 

  3. Janice Sanford-Beck and Tammy Clarke
    
 
    
Good Food Junction Co-operative Grocery Store: The Challenge of Member Engagement at an Inner-City Consumer Co-operative
    4. 



Session 1B – Panel: Co-operative Development

Lou Hammond Ketilson, chair




    

  1. Christina Clamp
    
Worker Co-operative Development in the US
    2. 

  2. Chuck Hotchkiss 
    

    3. 

  3. Jessica Gordon Nembhard
    4. 



Session 1C – Co-operatives in India: The Changing Environment

Getu Hailu, chair




Session Cancelled







11:00 AM – 12:00 PM






Session 2A – Historical Perspectives

Leslie Brown, chair




    

  1. Rita Rhodes 
    

    
Recording Co-operative Innovation: The Role of the Historian
    2. 

  2. Ian MacPherson
    
Entrepreneurship, Fear and Pressure: Innovation in the English-Canadian Credit Union Movement in the 1980s
    3. 

  3. Mark McCulloch 
    

    
Collaborators or Resisters: The Consumer Co-operative Movement in Communist East Germany – 1945 to 1955
    4. 



Session 2B – Panel: Effective Practices in Co-operative Development

Jorge Sousa, chair




    

  1. Joy Emmanuel
    2. 

  2. Lynn Hannley
    3. 



Session 2C – The Financial Sector

Ellen Goddard, chair




    

  1. Geeta Sharma and Ganesh Kawadia
    

    
Evaluating and Mapping the Indian Urban Co-operative Banking Sector for Better Survival
    2. 

  2. Brent Hueth and Reka Sundaram-Stukel
    
 
    
Credit Union and Competition in Banking Services: A Special Analysis
    3. 

  3. Sudha K.
    
 
    
A Quest for Innovations in Member Development Paradigms in Primary Co-operatives in India
    4. 









2:15 PM – 3:15 PM






Session 3A – Governance

Tom Webb, chair




    

  1. Christina Salvosa 
    

    
Assessing Governance Performance of Selected Primary Co-opertaives in the Philippines
    2. 

  2. Dwayne Pattison
    
Delegates and Branches as Co-operative Responces to Rual Restructuring in Northern Saskatchewan
    3. 



Session 3B – Alternative Applications of the Co-operative Model

Catherine Laviten-Reid, chair




    

  1. Joy Emmanuel
    
Co-operatives and the Pursuit of Peace
    2. 

  2. Andrew McLeod 
    

    
The Potential Christian Co-operative Movement
    3. 



Session 3C – Members and Attitudes

Michael Gertler, chair




    

  1. Cristine de Clercy and Juanita Bacsu
    
 
    
Co-operative Membership and Globalization
    2. 

  2. Zhao Jun
    
 
    
Farmer-controlled Organizations in China: Pushed Forward of Taking-off? An Assessment Against International Experience
    3. 









3:45 PM – 4:45 PM






Session 4A – Social Responsibility

Jessica Gordon Nembhard, chair




    

  1. John Anderson
    
Responsible Consumerism: Implications for Co-operatives and the Social Economy
    2. 

  2. Nancy Allan 
    

    
Civilizing Commerce: The Unfinished Business of Fair Trade and Co-operatives
    3. 

  3. Thomas Gray
    
Countervailing Power Still a Relevant Social-Economic Innovation – re: rBGH, Monsanto and the Tillamook Dairy Co-operative
    4. 



Session 4B – Evaluation

Sonja Novkovic, chair




    

  1. John Maddocks 
    

    
Co-operative Identity in Financial Reporting: Developing the Co-operative Accounting Framework
    2. 

  2. Gerrard Perron 
    

    
Evaluating Co-operative Life
    3. 

  3. Vrajlal Sapovadia 
    

    
Evaluating Effectiveness among Co-operatives vis-a-vis other Social Institutes: A Case Study of NABARD’s Rual Innovation Fund
    4. 



Session 4C – Community Economic Development

Monica Juarez Adeler, chair




Session Cancelled







4:45 PM – 5:45 PM






Session 5A – Co-operatives and Health Care

April Bourgeois, chair




    

  1. Catherine Leviten-Reid and Ann Hoyt
    
Who Should Deliver Home Care? A Comparison of Co-operatives and Non-profit Home Care Agencies in Canada
    2. 

  2. Jessica Gordon Nembhard
    
Understanding Education as an Economic Resource in Worker Co-operatives in the USA
    3. 



No Session
Session 5C – Co-operative Development

Lena Soots, chair




    

  1. Bangaru Tamilmani
    
Towards Harnessing the Opportunities for Growth: Some Innovative Co-operative Experiments in South India
    2. 

  2. Evgeniy Yakushkin 
    

    
The Economic Mechanism of Consumer’s Co-operative: The Missed Competitive Advantages
    3. 

  3. Nasser Mirsepassi 
    

    
Type II Co-operatives: A Strategy for Expanding Co-operatives Share of the Economy in Iran
    4.