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The Journal of Entrepreneurial and Organizational Diversity (JEOD)
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Journal of Entrepreneurial and Organizational Diversity (JEOD) launches a call for
papers for a special issue on:
“The Cooperative Advantage for Community Development”
Guest editors:
Marcelo Vieta (
marcelo.vieta@euricse.eu
) and Doug Lionais (
doug_lionais@cbu.ca
)
Deadline for submissions: February 1, 2014.
While some theorists have minimalized cooperatives as “transitional” firms or “inefficient”
organizations with “incentive” issues (e.g., Furubotn & Pejovich, 1970; Hansmann, 1996;
Jensen & Meckling, 1979), empirical evidence has shown that coops are diverse
organizations that efficaciously address a plurality of socio-economic needs (e.g., Borzaga &
Galera, 2012; Perotín, 2012; Zamagni & Zamagni, 2010). Cooperation seems to actually be
effective in provisioning for myriad life needs, and cooperatives do so in more egalitarian
and sustainable ways than investor-owned firms. Cooperatives, in a nutshell, embody what
has been called “the cooperative advantage” (Birchall, 2003; Novkovic, 2007). This includes
their horizontal structures, their tight links to local communities, the principles and values of
Call for Papers
“The Cooperative Advantage for
Community Development”
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mutual aid and self-help that drive them, their counter-cyclical trends in times of crises, and
the overall “associative intelligence” they promote amongst members (Macpherson, 2002).
Coops have historically highlighted the “cooperative advantage” in how they have responded
to situations of socio-economic shortcomings or distress. In times of austerity especially,
coops (re)emerge to prominence as community development organizations. More than
simply a coping mechanism, however, coops are used to construct alternative economic
spaces (Leyshon, Lee, & Williams, 2003). For instance, the cooperative sector has played a
key role in the social, cultural, and economic revival of regions such as the Basque Country,
Trentino, and Kerala. In response to more recent austere times, Cleveland has set out on a
path of rebuilding community wealth through worker cooperatives. These and other
examples demonstrate the potential for cooperatives to stabilize, repair, build and shift
community economies. Indeed, cooperatives have proven to be highly effective firms for a
new type of community development—for
another development different to the one offered
by advocates of the neoliberal, “trickle-down” model.
The Journal of Entrepreneurial and Organizational Diversity (JEOD) invites researchers to
submit theoretical, empirical, or historical papers or case studies that analyze, demonstrate
or critique the cooperative advantage for community development. We encourage papers
from the perspectives of organizational, management, development, environmental, or
cooperative studies, or from the broader fields of economics, sociology, geography,
anthropology, or other social sciences. Papers must have a sound analytical base. We are
open to different research methodologies, as long as they are relevant to the topic and
employed rigorously.
Possible methodologies include, for example, empirical studies,
experiments, surveys, theoretical models, meta-analyses, and case studies. In empirical
work, it is important that relevant results are statistically or economically significant.
Case studies must be treated rigorously, and require any theoretical proposition to be
supported by econometric tests or solid historical and circumstantial evidence.
Literature reviews that integrate findings from many studies are also welcome, but they
should synthesize the literature in a useful manner and provide a substantial contribution to
the debate.
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Research questions that could be taken up include, but are certainly not limited, to the
following:
1.
Is there a cooperative advantage in community development?
2.
What promising cooperative experiments or movements exist today, or existed in
the past, that contribute or contributed to (an alternative?) community
development?
3.
How do the International Cooperative Alliances’ principles and values facilitate (or
hinder) the cooperative advantage for community development?
4.
Do cooperatives contribute to poverty reduction, socio-economic inclusion, social
cohesion, social justice, or peace?
5.
Do cooperatives contribute to the formation of social norms of trust, reciprocity,
and cooperation?
6.
How can the cooperative advantage be theorized in regards to community
development?
7.
How can the cooperative advantage respond to the need for more environmentally
sustainable economic realities?
8.
Can the cooperative advantage help reconfigure social, political, or economic
dimensions in more sustainable and more equitable directions?
9.
How is the cooperative advantage being deployed today in the global North or
South, and in particular in the former Eastern Bloc’s “transition economies,” or
within otherwise marginalized communities?
10.
How do cooperatives relate to other progressive forms of economic alterity,
particularly those of the solidarity and social economies
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Submission
Submission
Submission
Submission Procedure
Procedure
Procedure
Procedure
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Submissions can be made via the journal website at:
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indicate clearly that you are submitting for the “Cooperative Advantage for
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Community Development” issue. Information on the submission process and
formatting requirements are available on the site.
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Deadline for submissions: February 1, 2014.
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Please direct any further inquiries to the issue’s guest-editors:
Marcelo Vieta (
marcelo.vieta@euricse.eu
) or Doug Lionais (
doug_lionais@cbu.ca
), or to
Ilana Gotz, JEOD Managing Editor (
liana.gotz@euricse.eu
).
References
References
References
References
Birchall, J. R. (2003).
Rediscovering the co-operative advantage: Poverty reduction through self-help
.
Geneva: International Labour Organization.
Borzaga, C., & Galera, G. (2012). Promoting the understanding of cooperatives for a better world: Euricse's
contribution to the International Year of Cooperatives.
http://www.euricse.eu/en/euricse-
contribution-IYC
Furubotn, E. G., & Pejovich, S. (1970). Property rights and the behaviour of the firm in a socialist state: The
example of Yugoslavia.
Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie, 30
(3-4), 431-454.
Hansmann, H. (1996).
The ownership of enterprise
. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard
University Press.
Jensen, M. C., & Meckling, W. H. (1976). Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and
ownership structure.
Journal of Financial Economics, 3
(4), 305-360.
Leyshon, A., Lee, R., & Williams, C. C. (2003).
Alternative economic spaces
. London: Sage.
MacPherson, I. (2002). Encouraging associative intelligence: Co-operatives, shared learning and responsible
citizenship.
Journal of Co-operative Studies, 35
(2), 86-98.
Novkovic, S. (2008). Defining the co-operative difference.
Journal of Socio-Economics, 37
(6), 2168-2177.
Pérotin, V. (2012, March 15-16).
Workers' cooperatives: Good, sustainable jobs in the community
. Paper
presented at the Promoting the Understanding of Cooperatives for a Better World. San Servolo,
Venice, Italy.
Zamagni, S., & Zamagni, V. (2010).
Cooperative enterprise: Facing the challenge of globalization
.
Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
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