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Congress 2007 – Wednesday Schedule

Last Updated on September 19th, 2008
 

WEDNESDAY, MAY 30

CONGRESS 2007 ABORIGINAL PEOPLE’S THEME DAY

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8:30 AM – 9:30 AM

Argentinean Work Co-operatives
Sergio Ballario
Ministry of Co-operatives, Province of Santa Fe, Argentina

9:30 AM – 10:30 AM
Session 6A – The Paradigm
Jorge Sousa, chair



    

  1. Jason Heit
    
Co-operatives: Imagining a Way to Help Ourselves
    2. 

  2. Molly Hurd and Sonja Novkovic
    
Measuring Performance in the Social Economy
    3. 



Session 6B – Agency Theory 1

Christina Clamp, chair




    

  1. Kathy Lang 
    

    
Dominant Logic and Agency Theory: A Saskatchewan Wheat Pool Case Study
    2. 

  2. George Hendrikse and Ruud Smit 
    
On the Evolution of Product Portfolio Coherence of Co-operatives versus Corporations: An Agent-Based Analysis of the Single Origin Constraint
    3. 

  3. Jessica Gordon Nembhard 
    
Sustainable Growth and Capital Constraints: The Case of Canadian Agricultural Co-operatives
    4. 



Session 6C – Sustainable Development

Nora Russell, chair




    

  1. Michel Lafleur
    
  
    
La pensee cooperative et celle du developpement durable: l’apport de l’um et de l’autre pour une nouvelle conception du developpement
    2. 

  2. Marietta Buchelli
    
  
    
La construction d’um modele de developpement emergent en Colombie: Les co-operatives et les associations paysannes dans le developpement
    3. 









11:00 AM – 12:00 PM






Session 7A – Co-operatives in the Americas

Jason Heit, chair




    

  1. Ann Hoyt
    
Research on the Economi Impact of U.S. Co-operatives
    2. 

  2. Monica Juarez Adeler
    
Redefining a Co-operative Model through Social Cohesion: Lessons from the Argentinean Case of “Recovered Factories”
    3. 

  3. Gerard Perron 
    

    
The Organization of Co-operative Development in Quebec
    4. 



Session 7B – Agency Theory 2

Murray Fulton, chair




    

  1. Brent Hueth and Philippe Marcoul 
    
The Co-operative Firm as Monitored Credit? The Case of West Liberty Foods
    2. 

  2. Samuli Skurnik and Lee Egerstrom 
    

    
The Evolving Finnish Economic Model: How Co-operatives Serve as “Globalization Insurance”
    3. 

  3. Getu Hailu, Ellen Goddard, and Scott Jeffreys 
    
Measuring and Managing Costs of Conflict of Interest: A Comparative Case Study
    4. 



Session 7C – Resources 1

Leslie Mead, chair




    

  1. Amita Yadwadkar
    
 
    
Co-operatives in the Area if Canal Water Distribution for Irrigation: Lessons from an Innovative Experiment in India
    2. 

  2. Khalial Withen
    
 
    
Reverberations of the 1952 Revolution in Bolivia: Co-operatives as a Solution to the Global Water Crisis
    3. 









1:30 PM – 2:15 PM








Innovation at Concentra Financial 

David Smith

Senior Vice-President and Chief Marketing Officer, Concentra Financial








2:15 PM – 3:15 PM






Session 8A – Demutualization

Ann Hoyt, chair




    

  1. Roger Herman and Jorge Sousa 
    

    
Factors Influencing Demutualizing and Mutualizing Conversions of the Co-operative Organizational Form
    2. 

  2. John McNamara 
    

    
Co-operative Potential in the Global Arena: Progress Based on Principles
    3. 



Session 8B – Behavioural Models

Getu Hailu, chair




    

  1. Morris Altman
    
Experiments in Consumer Co-operatives: Economic and Social Variables as Determinants of Demand
    2. 

  2. Lampros Lamprinakis and Murray Fulton
    
Co-operatives and Local Communities: An Economic Psychological Approach
    3. 



Session 8C – Resources 2

Karen Timoshuk, chair




    

  1. Fiona Duguid
    
 
    
Developing Sustainable Energy using Co-operatives
    2. 

  2. Patrick Gingras
    
 
    
Les co-operatives forestieres et le developpement des regions peripheriques du Quebec: Entre innovation et cohesion sociale
    3. 









3:45 PM – 4:45 PM






Session 9A – Case Studies

Cathy Statz, chair




    

  1. Katie Harris
    
LEAP: A Case Study of the Trials of a Grassroots Co-operative
    2. 

  2. Brendan Reimer
    
Community Economic Development, Co-operatives, and Social Enterprises in Immigrant and Refugee Communities in Canada
    3. 



Session 9B – Labour and Social Learning

Louise Clarke, chair




    

  1. Judy Haiven and Larry Haiven
    
The Fogo Island Fishing Co-operative and Its Workers: Lessons from the Fishery
    2. 

  2. April Bourgeois
    
A Tale of Two Movements: The Case of the Prairie Labour-Worker Co-op Council
    3. 

  3. Judith Harris, Inonge Aliaga, and Joan Hay
    
Social Learning and an Emerging Research Co-operative
    4. 



Session 9C – Innovative Institutions 1

Fiona Duguid, chair




    

  1. Lena Soots and Stewart Perry
    
 
    
Supporting Innovative Co-operative Development in Canada: The Case of the Nova Scotia Co-operative Development System
    2. 

  2. Mitch Diamantopoulos
    
 
    
Case Study of the West-Coast Development Co-operative (Devco): A “Bootstrap” Co-op Support Organization in a “Hostile Environment”
    3. 









4:45 PM – 5:45 PM






Session 10A – The Service Sector 

William Nelson, chair




    

  1. Roderick Bugador and Yasunaga Wakabayashi 
    

    
Organizational Orientation and Performance in Japanese Consumer Co-operatives
    2. 

  2. Stacey Corriveau 
    

    
InsideArt Co-operative: Co-operation and Commerce within Prison Walls
    3. 



Session 10B – Innovative Institutions 2

John Anderson, chair




    

  1. John Chamard and Tom Webb 
    

    
Centre of Excellence in Accounting for Co-operatives
    2. 

  2. Joy Emmanuel
    
Co-operative Lessons in Innovation: Responding to Changes in the “New Economy”
    3. 

  3. April Bourgeois
    
Why Do We Need the World Declaration on Worker Co-operatives?
    4. 



Session 10C – 

Isobel Findlay, chair




    

  1. Andre Martin
    
 
    
Le paradigme co-operatif: mouvement educatif entre un ideal a reconquerir et une pratique a revaloriser
    2. 

  2. Michael Gertler
    
 
    
Co-operatives and the Knowledge Nexus: From Education and Training to Brokering Knowledgeable Economics
    3.