Research Catalog

Title

Co-operative membership and globalization : new directions in research and practice / edited by Brett Fairbairn and Nora Russell.

Publication

Saskatoon : Centre for the Study of Co-operatives, University of Saskatchewan, c2004.

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Additional Authors

• Fairbairn, Brett, 1959-
• Russell, Nora
• University of Saskatchewan. Centre for the Study of Co-operatives

Description

vii, 312 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

Eighteen essays in three parts on critical issues in co-operative research.

Subject

• Cooperation > Canada
• Cooperative societies > Canada
• Coopération > Canada
• Coopératives > Canada

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Globalization and co-operatives / William D. Coleman -- Cohesion, adhesion, and identities in co-operatives / Brett Fairbairn -- Social cohesion and deliberative democracy : a challenge for co-operatives in building the common good / Benoit Levesque, Patrick de Bortoli, and Jean-Pierre Girard -- The challenges of co-operative membership, social cohesion, and globalization / Karen Philp -- Membership and public relations : an examination of Arctic Co-operatives Limited / Chris McCarville -- Co-operative social responsibility : a natural advantage? / Andrea Harris -- Co-operative membership : issues and challenges / Bill Turner -- Co-operative membership as a complex and dynamic social process / Michael Gertler -- Revisiting the role of values and principles : do they act to include or exclude? / Lou Hammond Ketilson -- Remapping co-operative studies : re-imagining postcolonial co-operative futures / Isobel M. Findlay -- Cognitive processes and co-operative business strategy / Murray Fulton and Julie Gibbings -- Innovations in co-operative marketing and communications / Leslie Brown -- Leadership and representational diversity : theory, operationalization, and measurement -- Respectful research in Aboriginal communities and institutions in Canada / Warren Weir and Wanda Wuttunee -- The issues and challenges facing a co-operative in search of new cohesion : the case of Agropur / Daniel Cote -- Forestry co-operatives in Quebec : social cohesion and economic ties / Mario Carrier -- The solidarity co-operative in Quebec and social cohesion : measuring and understanding the impact / Jean-Pierre Girard and Patrick de Bortoli -- Setting new directions / Brett Fairbairn.

ISBN

0888804911 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2005362340

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library