Call
for Papers
Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory and Labor-Managed
Firms, Volume 10
Advances in the Economic
Analysis of Participatory and Labor-Managed Firms is an edited annual volume of original
international research on the issue of participatory and labor-managed
organizations. Past volumes are representative of the best theoretical and
empirical research being carried out on the economic analysis of participatory
and labor-managed firms. Typical areas of research include employee-ownership,
co-operatives, labor-management decision-making, co-determination,
profit-sharing, and economic democracy. The table of contents of the previous volumes can be
viewed at: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bookseriesdescription.cws_home/BS_PLMF/description
For the 10th Volume of ‘Advances’ the
editors invite submissions from all fields of theoretical and empirical
research into co-operative firms.
Surveys are also welcome. We also welcome papers about co-operatives that
address, but are not restricted to, the following themes:
1. Economic analysis of different types of
cooperatives, their viability, their economic objectives and prevalence;
2. Factors
affecting co-operatives’ entry and exit;
3. Empirical evidence on the different factors
explaining the performance of co-operative firms (e.g. market structure,
internal organisational structure, financial structure, institutional setting,
and so on);
4. Comparative
co-operative systems, including studies on co-operatives in transition and
developing countries;
5. Demutualization rates, causes and prevention;
Submissions are invited from all relevant fields of study including
industrial economics, comparative economic systems, institutional economics,
evolutionary economics, development economics and organizational studies.
To be considered for publication
manuscripts must be received by September 1, 2005 and should include your institutional affiliation
and mailing address, plus a short list of keywords. The journal's policy is to
have an efficient refereeing system that minimizes the submission-publication
lag.
The preferred way to send the manuscript is by email attachment. Please
submit your manuscript to both of the volume editors. Alternatively, you may submit 3
paper copies of your manuscript to one of the editors, along with a covering
letter noting your postal address, email address and telephone number.
Editors:
Sonja Novkovic
Department of Economics
Saint Mary’s University
Halifax, NS, B3H3C3
Canada
Vania Sena
Aston Business School
Aston University
Aston Triangle
Birmingham, B4 7ET
UK
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