This year's annual conference of the UK Society for Co-operative Studies will focus on worker-owned businesses and will be held at Cardiff School of Management, in Llandaff, Cardiff..
For further information or to receive a printed booking form contact: Richard Bickle (Secretary), UK Society for Co-operative Studies, Holyoake House, Hanover Street, Manchester, M60 0AS. An electronic version of the booking form will be available soon.
Members may be interested in the launch of a new journal as a possible outlet for their published writings. The Journal of Entrepreneurial and Organizational Diversity (JEOD) focuses on the subject of entrepreneurial diversity, encompassing therefore all enterprise types and models. JEOD seeks to serve as the principal outlet for theoretical and empirical research on the entrepreneurial phenomenon in its myriad of forms. We place strong emphasis on the determinants and the effects of entrepreneurial diversity as well as on comparisons between different types of enterprise and their aims. Further, JEOD welcomes research on diversity within particular forms (e.g., different ownership and governance models, companies organized to take social responsibility into account, entrepreneurial networks) as well as studies on new forms, such as social enterprises.
http://www.euricse.eu/journals/online-journal
A conference to be held at UCL in London on 29th June 2011. In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis and the subsequent recession, co-operatives have been widely debated as a potential strategy for coping with hard times, and have thus become the focus of political debate. Co-operatives have also been cited approvingly by Conservative politicians, including the Prime Minister, as part of the ‘big society’. At the same time, political commentators on the left of centre have argued the ‘rediscovery’ of the co-operative and mutualist tradition is also crucial to the renewal of social democracy. This seminar, organised by UCL with the support of the Co-operative College, brings together co-operative activists, advocates and academics to explore the question of how the current interest in co-operation can be translated into practice. With approximately a billion members worldwide the co-operative movement is flourishing, but how can it continue to do so, and what role can or should governments play in this process? Details can be found here.
