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2019 ACE Institute – Montréal
Hourly Schedule
Monday, May 27 2019
- 10:00am - 4:00pm
- Youth Programming
- 6:00pm - 9:00pm
- Opening Reception
Tuesday, May 28 2019
- 7:15am - 8:15am
- Registration
- 8:15am - 8:30am
- Welcome note and logistics
- 8:30am - 8:45am
- Transportation
- 8:45am - 10:15am
- Educación para el emprendimiento solidario y la Innovación Social
- Colombia Perez Muñoz, Hans Cediel Morales and Edna Esteban R.
- 8:45am - 10:15am
- El reforzamiento de la identidad cooperativa: un elemento a considerar por el movimiento cooperativo
- Gonzalo Martínez Etxeberria
- 8:45am - 10:15am
- Factores y Motivaciones que inciden en la Vida y Trayectoria y Permanencia de un/a Administrador Exitoso (Lideres Voluntarios) en una Empresa de Naturaleza Social
- Dra. Elba Echevarria Diaz
- 8:45am - 10:15am
- El aprendizaje-servicio como estrategia metodológica para promover el emprendimiento social entre los jóvenes
- Josune López Rodríguez
- 8:45am - 10:15am
- Worker cooperatives and their contribution to local development. Proposals to materialize their potential
- Camila Piñeiro Harnecker
- 8:45am - 10:15am
- Role Of Savings And Credit Cooperative Societies In Wealth Creation In Limuru Sub-County
- David Gichuhi Warwathe
- 8:45am - 10:15am
- Human Development Management: how to get aid to develop Brazilian cooperatives through vocational training and employees' and associates' social deployment
- Guilherme José Cabral Gonçalves
- 8:45am - 10:15am
- The implementation of Integrated Co-operative Development Projects (ICDP) in India
- Mr. Rajeev Yadav and Dr. K. Anbumani
- 8:45am - 10:15am
- Of broken business models, co-operative innovations and the digital age: An opening for journalism’s democratic reconstruction?
- Mitch Diamantopoulos
- 8:45am - 10:15am
- Community Views on the Need for Platform Cooperatives in the Platform Labour Market: A 3-stage Delphi Study
- Morshed Mannan
- 8:45am - 10:15am
- Digital Maturity for Co-operatives: finding the path forward
- Dr. Gregory J Fleet
- 8:45am - 10:15am
- Innovation manageriale
- Xavir Chenu, Matthieu Piegay and Maia Poulin
- 10:15am - 10:45am
- Break
- 10:45am - 12:15pm
- Collective Entrepreneurship, P6 and Regional Economic Development. The Case of Norandino
- Darryl Reed
- 10:45am - 12:15pm
- Rural versus urban – A comparison of the perception of credit cooperatives operating in different environments
- Gregor Rabong
- 10:45am - 12:15pm
- Effect Of Cooperative Membership On The Savings And Borrowing Attitude Among Staffs Of Public Universities In Ekiti State
- Ajayi Ibidolapo Ezekiel
- 10:45am - 12:15pm
- Employee-Ownership Integration at County Level Economic Development in the United States
- Frank Cetera
- 10:45am - 12:15pm
- Social innovation: Is there a co-operative advantage?
- Morris Altman
- 10:45am - 12:15pm
- Classification of Cooperatives: Between National Relevancy and International Comparability
- Hyungsik Eum, Chirar Carini and Marie J. Bouchard
- 10:45am - 12:15pm
- The challenge of Cooperative Multinationalisation: A Comparative Study of the French ‘Up Group’ and the Mondragon ‘Fagor Ederlan Group’
- Anjel Errasti, Ignacio Bretos and Carmen Marcuello
- 10:45am - 12:15pm
- Compensation in Co-operatives: Values-Based Philosophies
- Karen Miner and Dr. Sonja Novkovic
- 10:45am - 12:15pm
- “It’s just a logo!”, really? Exploring the role of branding artifacts in the strategy-identity tensions of a consumer co-op
- Valérie Michaud and Marcos Barros
- 10:45am - 12:15pm
- The relationship between Corporate Governance and Strategic Alignment in Credit Coops
- Thaciane Aranda Sutecas, Gustavo Abib and Tomas Sparano Martins
- 10:45am - 12:15pm
- Result of the application of a proposed procedure for financial planning in the cooperative La Concha of the City of Santa Clara
- Erik Muñoz Maribona and Zulma María Ledezma
- 10:45am - 12:15pm
- Legal Form as a Determinant of ESG Outcomes in Direct Offering Retail-Level Impact Investments: A comparative analysis of co-operative, not-for-profit, and private corporations in Ontario
- Sean Cambell
- 10:45am - 12:15pm
- The Co-operative Performance Indicators as seen by Canadian Bicycle Co-ops, Coop Vélo-Cité, Coop Roue-Libre and La Bikery
- Eric M. Gosselin
- 10:45am - 12:15pm
- Crafting a Co-operative Environment: Microbreweries Co-operating in Manitoba
- Chris Sones and Simon Berge
- 10:45am - 12:15pm
- What Is A Co-operative? The Importance Of Orientations
- Annie Gaillard
- 10:45am - 12:15pm
- Market, justice, and the cooperative as a political institution?
- Dominic Martin, Michel Séguin and Marie-Claude Beaudin
- 10:45am - 12:15pm
- L’intercoopération comme vecteur d’innovation en éducation coopérative au Québec
- Myriam Michaud, Johanne Lavoie, Jérôme Gagné and Alain Blanchette
- 12:15pm - 1:15pm
- Lunch
- 1:15pm - 1:45pm
- Keynote
- Bruno Roelents
- 1:45pm - 2:00pm
- Transport
- 2:00pm - 3:30pm
- L'autobiographie raisonnée, un accompagnement du sociétariat coopératif
- Jean-François Draperi
- 2:00pm - 3:30pm
- Ethique et valeurs coopératives en entreprenariat
- Khady Fall Diop
- 2:00pm - 3:30pm
- Humanistic management in the co-operative context
- Sonja Novkovic
- 2:00pm - 3:30pm
- Engaging the members in the context of a New Cooperative Paradigm (NCP): A key success factor to address market transformation
- Daniel Côté
- 2:00pm - 3:30pm
- Federalization at Innovation Credit Union: Understanding Decision-Making through Prospect Theory
- Joshua Noble
- 2:00pm - 3:30pm
- Cooperative Entrepreneurship in a Federation
- Michel Lafleur and Alain Leclerc
- 2:00pm - 3:30pm
- The Impact and Value-Add of Co-operative Associations in Canada and the United States
- Adam Trott
- 2:00pm - 3:30pm
- The Futures of Federations of Co-operatives: when Threat of Exit & Asset Specificity Concur
- Declerck, F., Cadot, J. Cook, M. Doit
- 2:00pm - 3:30pm
- Fraud in labour cooperatives: the non-compliance of two fundamental principles
- Héctor Nicolás Jacquet
- 2:00pm - 3:30pm
- Biolabour and Enactive Cognition Theory: Worker-Owned Co-operatives as Enactively Therapeutic
- Sharry Taylor
- 2:00pm - 3:30pm
- An Analysis of the Trends in Co-operatives and “Teal” Organizations
- Rebecca Fisher-McGinty
- 2:00pm - 3:30pm
- Worker Cooperatives: Creating Default Alternatives to Predatory United States Capitalism: From Worker Succession Policies to Implementing Eminent Domain
- Peter Ranis
- 2:00pm - 3:30pm
- Un Institut de recherche universitaire au service de l'entrepreneuriat coopératif
- Anne-Marie Merrien, Josée Charbonneau and Jocelyne Champagne Racine
- 2:00pm - 3:30pm
- L'expérience de transfert d'entreprise en coopérative de travail
- Antoine Trussart, Alain Bridault and Serge Kirouac
- 3:30pm - 4:00pm
- Break
- 4:00pm - 5:30pm
- Analyse du modele d’innovation des coopératives de santé
- Jimmy Peixe McIntyre & Emanuel Sanpaio Silva
- 4:00pm - 5:30pm
- Les nouvelles coopératives de travail au Québec : une analyse actuelle
- Erika Gaudreault
- 4:00pm - 5:30pm
- Le Fonds Coop Accès Proprio : une innovation pour du logement abordable
- Jocelyne Rouleau
- 4:00pm - 5:30pm
- Limites et potentiel de l’entrepreneuriat collectif : retour sur expérience
- Thomas Boisvert St-Arnaud
- 4:00pm - 5:30pm
- Measuring cooperative employment and entrepreneurship according to new statistical guidelines
- Theo Sparreboom
- 4:00pm - 5:30pm
- Financing Cooperatives in Asymmetric Information
- Julien Cadot and Arnaud Feral
- 4:00pm - 5:30pm
- Measuring the Co-operative Difference: A Conceptual Framework for Co-operative Accounting Standards
- Maureen McCulloch and Daphne Rixon
- 4:00pm - 5:30pm
- L’appropriation, par les acteurs, du modèle économique hybride : cas de la Coopérative Bancaire Française
- Mariam Konate
- 4:00pm - 5:30pm
- Se transformer et préparer la relève : le double défi de la SADEL, coopérative de consommateurs devenue coopérative de production
- Billaudeau Valérie and Moysan Patrice
- 4:00pm - 5:30pm
- Construire un partenariat d'affaire
- Maia Poulin and Matthieu Piegay
- 4:00pm - 5:30pm
- Coopérative et acteurs du territoire : quelles formes de coordination ? -cas des coopératives du territoire de Settat-Maroc
- Hicham Jekki and Zineb El Gasmi
- 4:00pm - 5:30pm
- The Co-op Convert Project, Year 1: Mapping the Potential of Converting Workplaces and Community Spaces to Co-operatives
- Marcelo Vieta, Lisa Mychalyuk, Ashish Krishna Pillai, Josée Charbonneau, Claude-André Guillotte and Roy Messing
- 5:30pm - 5:45pm
- Transport
- 5:45pm - 6:45pm
- CASC AGM
Wednesday, May 29 2019
- 8:30am - 10:00am
- Changements organisationnels et technologiques du coopérativisme agricole au milieu de la concurrence et de la sophistication des processus de production
- Maria Luiza Lins and Silva Pires
- 8:30am - 10:00am
- Blockchain: Opportunités pour le mouvement coopératif et les entreprises d'économie sociale
- Pascal Ngu Cho
- 8:30am - 10:00am
- Technological Platforms as a Means to Increase Engagement in the Co-operative Sector
- Kendall Ashcroft and Simon Berge
- 8:30am - 10:00am
- Community Solar Cooperatives in Developing Countries
- Émile Nadeau
- 8:30am - 10:00am
- Increase of the productivity and improvement of the financial status of pharmacy dropping retailers, through technical training of business skills with cooperative and collaborative approach. Case of Foundation of Coopidrogas for education and technical advice - Fundecopi - Colombia
- Darío Castillo Sandoval
- 8:30am - 10:00am
- Do bank ownership and governance structures matter for diversity in banking?
- Hans Groeneveld
- 8:30am - 10:00am
- The Imperativeness of Co-Operative Ethics And Values In Entrepreneurship In Nigeria
- Jonathan Chidebere Egesi
- 8:30am - 10:00am
- The role of the cooperatives in sustainable development
- Nazik Beishenaly
- 8:30am - 10:00am
- Cooperatives Longevity and Sustainable Development Goals: Case Study from The Co-operators
- Manchuna Shanmuganathan
- 8:30am - 10:00am
- Wealth, Social Enterprise and the FairShares Model
- Dr Rory Ridley-Duff, Dr David Wren & Maureen McCulloch
- 8:30am - 10:00am
- Credit Cooperatives and Private Banks: goals for sustainable development
- Davi Rogério de Moura Costa, Marcos Vinicius de Azevedo Fabbri and Ricardo Theodoro
- 8:30am - 10:00am
- Higher Education as a Site of Co-operative Entrepreneurship and Training
- Darryl Reed, Madison Hooper, Corey Walters, Tristan Laing, Claude-Andre Guillotte, Adam Trott, J.J. McMurtry, Azad Ahmed, Cheryl Collerette, Martine Vézina and François Hastir
- 8:30am - 10:00am
- Economies of Scale Amongst Coffee Co-operatives in Papua New Guinea
- Hannah Altman, Morris Altman and Louise Lamontagne
- 10:00am - 10:30am
- Credit Unions’ Women Leadership Development for Co-operative International Cooperation: The Case of Women’s Mentorship Program of CDF Canada
- Sumi Cho, Jean Roxas and Seungkwon Jang
- 10:00am - 10:30am
- Roles of African American Women in Co-op Education and Development
- Jessica Gordon-Nembhard
- 10:30am - 12:00pm
- Contribution de l’entreprenariat coopératif au bien-être familiale au Burkina Faso: cas de la coopérative de production artisanale des femmes de Ouagadougou (COPAFO)
- Lucie Ouedraogo, Youssoufou Traoré and Halidou Sinare
- 10:30am - 12:00pm
- Femmes et Coopératives d’habitat au Burkina Faso
- Siaka Ouédraogo and Tièfa Somé
- 10:30am - 12:00pm
- The Co-operative Difference? Exploring the Labour and Co-operative Party relationship in Britain 1997-2010
- Sean Kippin
- 10:30am - 12:00pm
- Management challenges for purpose-driven co-operatives - The case of Union: Sustainable Development Co-operative
- Sean Campbell and Aleksandra Szaflarska
- 10:30am - 12:00pm
- Co-operative Sustainability Performance Measurement: Connecting the Principles and the SDGs
- Nik Rowlston, Fiona Duguid and Daphne Rixon
- 10:30am - 12:00pm
- Sustainable Development And Co-operative Entrepreneurship In Nigeria
- Jonathan Chidebere Egesi
- 10:30am - 12:00pm
- Getting Ontario Ready for the Social Finance Fund
- Denyse Guy
- 10:30am - 12:00pm
- Governance and Representation on Boards: Where Principal-Agent Theories meets Modern Governance Paradigms
- Sean Geobey and Anthony Piscitelli
- 10:30am - 12:00pm
- The Emergence of Co-operative Governance. A psychological game theory approach
- Ermanno Tortia and Lorenzo Sacconi
- 10:30am - 12:00pm
- Towards A Conceptual Governance Framework for Co-Operative Financial Institutions (CFI’s) In South Africa
- Ivan Steenkamp
- 10:30am - 12:00pm
- Entrepreneuriat coopératif : pratiques et facteurs de succès
- Richard Lacasse, Alain Plouffe, Cheryl Gelsthorpe, Daniel Murdoch, Paulossi Weetalutuk and Bob Cohen
- 10:30am - 12:00pm
- “A cure for what ails you. Seizing co-operative identity from the jaws of isomorphism”
- Wayne Schatz, Sandra Dawe and Wendy Carruthers
- 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Lunch
- 1:00pm - 2:00pm
- Roundtable of Young Co-op Entrepreneurs
- 2:00pm - 3:30pm
- Le risque de subjectivité inhérent aux résultats des entreprises sociales: Cas des coopératives d'Agadir
- Kaoutar Erramy
- 2:00pm - 3:30pm
- Impact de la mise en œuvre des principes cooperatifs sur la performance financière et sociale de l’entreprise : cas du rcpb-Burkina Faso
- Oumarou Yaro
- 2:00pm - 3:30pm
- Analyse et representation de la performance globale des cooperatives
- Naoual Mamdouh
- 2:00pm - 3:30pm
- La pratique de la coopération : une véritable dynamique de développement économique et social des entreprises de l’Economie Sociale et Solidaire : cas de l’UCFA (Union des Coopératives de Femmes d’Argane)
- Wafa Affaghrou
- 2:00pm - 3:30pm
- Connections, inclusion and accessibility: Steering co-op development into the 21st Century
- Audra Krueger
- 2:00pm - 3:30pm
- Economic Impact of Co-operatives in Canada (2015)
- Fiona Duguid and George Karaphillis
- 2:00pm - 3:30pm
- Cooperatives and the ICA-EU Partnership: Bridging the Gap Between Youth and the Cooperative Movement with Practitioner Thematic Research on Youth
- Arielle Romenteau and Jeffrey Moxom
- 2:00pm - 3:30pm
- To profit or not to profit? That is the wrong question
- Maureen McCulloch & Professor Rory Ridley-Duff
- 2:00pm - 3:30pm
- Tools for Co-operative Learning: What is Available and What is Needed for a Thriving Co-operative Economy
- Erin Hancock
- 3:30pm - 4:00pm
- Break
- 4:00pm - 5:30pm
- Institutional Analyses of the Modes of Entrepreneurship and Support in the Development of Cooperative Enterprise
- Keith Taylor
- 4:00pm - 5:30pm
- Cooperative Social Entrepreneurship
- Rory Ridley-Duff
- 4:00pm - 5:30pm
- L'éducation coopérative comme outil pour les entreprises cubaines
- Reynaldo Miguel Jiménez Guethón
- 4:00pm - 5:30pm
- Co-operative Food Initiatives By and For Canada’s Indigenous Communities: Geographical and Organizational Trends
- M. Derya Tarhan, Jennifer Sumner and J.J. McMurtry
- 4:00pm - 5:30pm
- "Supporting Enterprise Development in Indigenous Communities: Why a Co-operative Model Makes Sense"
- Dr. Lou Hammond Ketilson
- 4:00pm - 5:30pm
- Upholding Indigenous Economic Relationships
- Priscilla Settee and Shalene Jobin
- 4:00pm - 5:30pm
- COOP Curacao and comparable case situations; viable opportunities and strategies for 'cooperative entrepreneurship' in Curaçao derive from best practices in comparable case situations in time of crises and/or great transitions
- Sharnon Isenia
- 4:00pm - 5:30pm
- Perceived enterpreunership benefit of marketing cooperative societies in India
- Abadi Teklehaimanot, Ram Bahal, K. Vijayaragavan, C Mathur and V.K. Mahajan
- 4:00pm - 5:30pm
- The Art of Cooperation: Preliminary Findings About Cooperatives in the Visual Arts
- Leanne Unruh
- 4:00pm - 5:30pm
- The City of Minneapolis's Cooperative Technical Assistance Program (CTAP)
- Daniel Bonilla
- 4:00pm - 5:30pm
- Board Perspective: Tools for Measuring Cooperative Performance
- Hannah Scott and Ivory Harlow
- 4:00pm - 5:30pm
- "The Perils and Creative Pleasures of Self-Management in Co-operative Organizations"
- Hélène Brown
- 5:30pm - 7:00pm
- Break
- 7:00pm - 10:00pm
- Banquet
Thursday, May 30th 2019
- 7:30am - 8:30am
- ACE AGM
- 8:30am - 8:45am
- In Transit
- 8:45am - 10:15am
- Travailler avec un développeur de coopératives pour renforcer les connaissances et la création de coopératives dans votre communauté
- Pascal Billard
- 8:45am - 10:15am
- Affirmer sa minorité par la coopération: Analyse des projets coopératifs des communautés francophones de l'Ontario
- Denik Dorval and Jean-François Parent
- 8:45am - 10:15am
- Les pratiques de renouvellement des conseils d'administration des coopératives : Proposition d'une boîte à outils
- Myriam Michaud and Luc K. Audebrand
- 8:45am - 10:15am
- Construction de la méthodologie et de la stratégie d'incubation de coopératives
- Jimmy Peixe McIntyre, Sandra Suely Soares Bergonsi and Emanuel Sampaio Silva
- 8:45am - 10:15am
- Diagnosis of Governance of Brazilian Cooperatives
- Giulianna Fardini, Susan Miyashita Vilela and Karla Tadeu Duarte de Oliveira
- 8:45am - 10:15am
- Participatory Governance in Conservation: Exploring the links to conservation outcomes
- Aleksandra Szaflarska
- 8:45am - 10:15am
- Investing in co-ops without weakening their internal democracy
- Danny Spitzberg
- 8:45am - 10:15am
- Faire de l'éthique un élément de distinction coopérative
- Colette Lebel and Andréa Renaud
- 8:45am - 10:15am
- Tending to Power Dynamics in Your Co-operative Team
- Rebecca Fisher-McGinty and Cecile Green
- 10:15am - 10:45am
- Break
- 10:45am - 12:15pm
- La gestion des synergies dans un contexte de diversification d’activités de la coopérative agro-alimentaire: une approche par les micro-fondations
- Majdi Ben Selma, Martine Vézina, Damien Rousselière and Luc Audebrand
- 10:45am - 12:15pm
- La perception du risque entrepreneurial chez les salariés-associés des Scop
- Gaël Trividic
- 10:45am - 12:15pm
- Contribution de l’entreprenariat coopératif à l’accès des populations aux logements décents au Burkina Faso: cas de la société Coopérative Burkinabè de l’Habitat
- Tiefa Somé, Lucie Ouedraogo and Youssoufou Traoré
- 10:45am - 12:15pm
- Contribution de l’entreprenariat coopératif au développement économique du Burkina Faso: cas de la société coopérative de solidarité commerciale (SOCSOCOM)
- Rock Donatien Nagalo, Lucie Ouedraogo and Youssoufou Traoré
- 10:45am - 12:15pm
- Neoclassical Dismissal of the Collective in Agricultural Cooperatives
- Thomas W. Gray
- 10:45am - 12:15pm
- Socio-economic Analyses of the Sustainability of Cooperative Businesses in Imo State, Nigeria
- Chijioke Nwankwo Okoro (Ph.D), Chioma Grace Chijioke-Okoro and C.J.C Akubuilo
- 10:45am - 12:15pm
- Impact Based on the Co-operative Principles: Data from Co-operative Performance Indicators (CPI)
- Fiona Duguid & Daphne Rixon
- 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Lunch
- 1:15pm - 4:15pm
- Mobile Learning Sessions - Co-op Tours
- 4:15pm - 5:30pm
- ACE Board Meeting