ICRC 2012 - International Cooperative Research Conference

International Cooperative Research Conference

Building a Better World: The Role of Cooperatives and Mutuals in Economy and Society

This conference is organised the New Zealand Association for the Study of Cooperatives and Mutuals in conjunction with Victoria University of Wellington and the New Zealand Cooperatives Association. Anyone is welcome to attend the conference, whether you intend to present a paper or not.

Purpose: The United Nations has declared 2012 as the International Year of Cooperatives. This conference is part of a series of activities aimed at understanding and promoting the cooperative business model. In addition, it is intended to identify and promote ongoing research on cooperatives. It will also serve as an initiative to build a community of experts and interested parties for ongoing collaboration, dialogue and research on cooperatives.

Place: Rydges Hotel (75 Featherston Street), located near the Pipitea Campus, Victoria University of Wellington, Lambton Quay, Wellington, New Zealand.

Wellington is the bustling cosmopolitan capital of New Zealand. Located in the North Island, it is the centre of government, business, and the arts, and the home to a vibrant academic community and culture.

Date: 21 ? 23 June 2012.

Submission Information and Deadlines
This is an invitation for papers to be presented at the conference. Potential participants are requested to submit a one page abstract of their conference paper by 21 May 2012 and should attach a CV. All submissions are to be uploaded through our website here.

We welcome submissions from graduate students.

Keynote speakers: (confirmed) Michael L. Cook, Robert D. Partridge Professor of Cooperative Leadership Division of Applied Social Science University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA

Plenary panels:

1. Cooperative Banking in the Context of the Global Finance Crisis

2. The Sustainability of Producer Cooperatives in New Zealand and Beyond

Session length

We invite submission for papers and sessions.

Sessions may be 1.5 hours or 2 hours long. Each paper in a session will be allocated 30 minutes, 20 minutes of which is for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion. If presentations exceed the 20 minute timeframe, presenters will have their allocated discussion time adjusted downwards accordingly.

We also invite proposal for papers that can be presented within a 10 minute time frame. This would be largely for less complex papers and research projects that have not yet reached their final stages of completion.

You are asked to rank order your preference for the 20 and 10 minute presentation slots.

Presentation format

Presentations can be given in a computer assisted format, such as Keynote and PowerPoint. To facilitate the latter, if your paper is accepted we ask that your Keynote or PowerPoint file is uploaded to this website.

The Scientific Committee reserves the right to add a paper to the proposed session so as to create some interdisciplinary dialogue where possible.

Abstracts should be between 300 and 500 words and uploaded using the web form below. Session proposals should be uploaded using the web form below and contain abstracts of all papers.

Important: ALL DOCUMENTS ARE TO BE SUBMITTED IN PDF FORM

The Scientific Committee will review the abstracts.

Review Criteria:
The review criteria are:
? theoretical and practical impact;
? methodological quality;
? clarity of ideas; and
? structure.

The deadline for submissions is 1 April 2012. You will be notified by 15 April 2012 , whether or not your submission has been accepted for presentation.

Full texts of accepted papers will be included on the Conference Proceedings (conference memory stick) if received by 1 May 2012 and the registration fee has been paid.