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'PARTICIPATION AND CHANGE IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY'
University of Bristol, UK
26th - 28th June 1998
Why attend
The bi-annual IAFEP conferences provide an international
forum for the presentation and debate of current research and scholarship
on the economics of participation. The major themes of the 1998 conference
will be:
Employee ownership and the transition to a market economy.
Employee participation in transnational corporations
The stakeholder economy: participation, trust
and social inclusion
Presentations in the following areas are welcome :
worker participation
self-management
employee ownership
economic and industrial democracy
labour-managed firms
co-operatives
profit sharing
inter-firm cooperation and networks
social enterprises in welfare services
Call for papers
Submissions are invited from all relevant fields of study
including industrial economics, comparative economic systems, organisational
studies, management studies, economic sociology, institutional economics,
evolutionary economics, development economics, and studies of economies
in transition.
Abstract submission deadline
The deadline for the receipt of proposals for papers to
be presented at the conference in the form of an abstract of up to 400
words is 15th April 1998. Abstracts of up to 300 words should include full
details of institutional affiliation and a mailing address. The conference
organisers will arrange for the reproduction of 30 copies of each paper,
which should be up to 8,000 words in length, and submitted by 26th May.
Abstracts should be sent to Will Bartlett, School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, Rodney Lodge, Grange Rd, Bristol BS8 4EA, UK
Tel: +44-117-9741117; Fax: +44-117-9737308; e-mail:
Will.Bartlett@bristol.ac.uk
Papers have so far been proposed by:
Carlo Borzaga, University of Trento, Italy
Gayle Broad, University of Bristol, UK
Danny Burns, University of Bristol, UK
Bernard Casey, European Institute, London School of Economics UK
Alessandra del Bocca, Faculty of Economics, Brescia, Italy
Bruno du Vivier, CICOP Asia Programme
Felix Fitzroy, University of St. Andrews, Scotland
Vojmir Franicevic, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Michael Gold, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Christopher Gunn, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, USA
Branko Horvat, Institute for Advanced Studies, Zagreb, Croatia
Amir Helman, Ruppin Institute, Israel
Derek Jones, Hamilton College, USA
Milena Jovicic, Institute of Economic Science, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Michael Keren, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Mark Klinedinst, University of Southern Mississippi, USA
Marc Labie, University of Mons Hainault, Belgium
Lyle Mitchell,
E.A.Musa, University of Magdeburg, Germany
Mario Nuti, London Business School, UK
Rosa Maria Pinon, National University of Mexico
Janez Prasnikar, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Luis Moura Ramos, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Joel Sandonis, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain
Stephen C. Smith, George Washington University, USA
Jan Svejnar, University of Michigan, USA
Milica Uvalic, University of Perugia, Italy
Daniel Vaughan Whitehead, ILO-CEET, Hungary
Belkacem Zairi, Universite d'Oran, Algeria
Conference location
Bristol is a major cultural and economic centre for Southwest
England, situated close to the historic town of Bath, one hundred miles
west of London. There are good rail and road links from London and Heathrow
airport, while Bristol airport connects directly with several major European
cities including Paris and Amsterdam. The conference will be held at Clifton
Hill House, a conference centre for Bristol University. Clifton Hill House
is an imposing semi-rural mansion built in 1747 by the Bristol merchant
and shipowner Paul Fisher, and is situated in the heart of Bristol close
to the University.
Conference fee
The full conference fee is GBP 240. This includes three
nights accommodation at Clifton Hill House from 25th-27th June, and all
meals. The fee also includes membership of IAFEP for one year and a free
subscription to the Association's journal "Economic Analysis: Journal of
Enterprise and Participation", a copy of the book of abstracts of all papers
presented at the conference, reproduction of 30 copies of each paper, and
participation at the conference dinner.
Accommodation is in single rooms. For those requiring
double rooms or hotel facilities, accommodation can be arranged in local
hotels on a payment of the appropriate supplement. A limited number of
bursaries of GBP 120 each are available for participants on low incomes
who lack institutional backing to attend the conference. Participants from
eastern Europe, low income countries and post-graduate students will be
favoured in allocation of the bursaries.
How to register
Please complete the attached booking form and send together
with payment to Katharine Green at the address below. Payment details are
provided on the booking form. Registrations will be confirmed once payment
has been received. If you are applying for a bursary please support your
application with a letter confirming your status.
Deadline for registration
The deadline for receipt of registration forms and payment
is Tuesday 26th May.
Address for correspondence
Administrative and booking enquiries should be sent to Katharine Green, Course and Conference Co-ordinator, SPS, Rodney Lodge, Grange Rd, Bristol, BS8 4EA,
Tel: +44-117-9741117; fax: +44-117-9737308; e-mail: k.a.green@bris.ac.uk
Scientific Committee of the conference
Will Bartlett (University of Bristol, UK), Danny Burns
(University of Bristol, UK), Felix Fitzroy (St Saviour's College, Scotland,
Branko Horvat (Institute for Advanced Studies, Croatia), Mark Klinedinst
(University ofSouthern Mississippi, USA, Mario Nuti (London Business School,
UK), Milena Jovicic (Faculty of Economics, Yugoslavia), Janez Prasnikar
(Faculty of Economics, Slovenia), Stephen C. Smith (George Washington University,
USA), Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead (ILO-CEET, Budapest, Hungary).
SESSION A: PARTICIPATION AND COOPERATION
A1. THEORY OF LABOUR MANAGED FIRMS AND COOPERATIVES
Michael Byalski, Michael Keren & David Levhari (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
"The Kibbutz as a Labor Managed Club: Public and Private Goods, Incentives and Social Control"
Felix Fitzroy and K.Kraft (St Salvator's College, St. Andrews, Scotland)
"Firm performance and Codetermination"
Marco Marini (University of Urbino)
"Labour-Capital Producer Co-operatives: Theory and
Practice"
A2. COOPERATIVE FUTURES
Jaroslav Vanek (Cornell University)
"Forty Years of Work with Economic Democracy: a Tour d'Horizon"
J.L.Montero de Burgos (Madrid)
"A New Social Alternative: Basis of a Third Social Way"
David Guinness (Bristol University)
"Management by Consent"
A3. INTER-FIRM COOPERATION AND NETWORKS
Will Bartlett & Vojmir Franicevic (SPS, Bristol &University of Zagreb, Croatia)
"Policy Support for SME Networking"
Richard Sweetnam (CEL, Edinburgh)
"The Role of Relationships/Networks in the Cross Border Trade of Micro-Enterprises: The Case of El Paso/Jurez"
Tea Petrin (University of Ljubljana)
"KONOLES - an Attempt to Build a Network Hub in Slovenia"
A4. INTER-FIRM COOPERATION AND ALLIANCES
Joel Sandonis (Universidad del Pais Vasco/EHU)
"Unilateral Commitments in Research Joint Ventures: When are they Rational?"
Rafael Chaves (Universitat de Valencia)
"Inter-firm Co-operation and Industrial Policy: The
Valencian Worker Managed Firm Case"
A5. THE STAKEHOLDER ECONOMY
Bernard Casey & Michael Gold (European Institute, LSE & Royal Holloway College)
"Social Dialogue and the Management of Economic and Demographic Change in European Union Countries: Conditions for Success"
Leonie Jennings (Southern Cross University, Australia)
"A Critical Analysis of the New Jobs Networks in Australia"
A6. SOCIAL ENTERPRISES
Lyle Mitchell & Alan Thomas (Open University)
"The Financial Needs of Social Economy Enterprises: Institutional Innovations in the UK: the Examples of RSN, ART and NAMGS"
Roger Spear (Open University)
"Models of Entrepreneurship"
A7. CREDIT COOPERATIVES AND MUTUAL FUNDS
Marc Labie (Universite de Mons Hainaut, Mons, Belgium)
"Peer group Pressure Credit and Institutional Environment"
Stephen C. Smith and Sanjay Jain (George Washington University)
"Village banking and Maternal and Child Health: Theory and preliminary Evidence from Honduras and Ecuador"
Chiara Tufarelli (Enterprise Consulting, Rome)
"Social Capital and Decentralised Investment Policies"
SESSION B: PARTICIPATION AND EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP
B1. EMPLOYEE SHARE OWNERSHIP I
Luis Moura Ramos (University of Coimbra)
"Employee Ownership, Isn't it Risky?"
Panu Kalmi (CEES, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark)
"Employment and Share Trade Under Insider Ownership"
B2. EMPLOYEE SHARE OWNERSHIP Ii
Avner Ben-Ner, Greg Dow and Louis Putterman
Paper on employee ownership
Anthony Jensen (Surrey)
Choice of titles: "Barriers to Employee Buyouts" or
" A theoretical model to Analyse the Effectiveness of Employee Buyouts"
B3. EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP IN TRANSITION ECONOMIES I
Janez Prasnikar, M. Grobelnik & M. Kommon (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
"Is There an Appropriation of Social Ownership by Managers of Slovenian Firms?"
Bela Galgoczi (Research Institute for Privatisation Studies, Budapest)
"The Role of Employee Ownership in Privatisation and its Future prospects for Hungary"
Sonja Novkovic (Saint Mary's University, Canada)
"Transition from self-Management to Employee Ownership:
Impact of Croatian Privatization on Economic Democracy"
B4. EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP IN TRANSITION ECONOMIES II
Derek Jones & Niels Mygind (Copenhagen Business School)
"Ownership and Productivity in Estonian Enterprises"
Derek Jones & Niels Mygind (Copenhagen Business School
"Ownership Patterns and Dynamics in Estonian Enterprises"
Larisa Lisogor (Institute of Economics of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)
"Employee Ownership and Labour Market in Ukraine"
B5. EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP IN TRANSITION ECONOMIES III
Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead (ILO, Budapest)
"Economic Democracy in Albania: A Missing Part"
El Khidir Ali Musa (University of Magdeburg, Germany)
"Workers' Participation in Ghana: a case Study of a State-Owned Enterprise in Transition to Privatisation"
Bruno Roelants du Vivier (CICOPA)
(No title) on:privatisation to cooperatives in China
B6. PRIVATISATION AND EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP IN SOUTH EAST
EUROPE
Milena Jovicic (Department of Economics, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia)
"Ownership Structure and Workers' Fluctuations in Yugoslav Industries"
Derek Jones, Charlie Rock & Mark Kleindinst (Hamilton College, New York, USA)
"Restructuring in Transition: the Bulgarian Experience"
Natalija Nikolovska (Faculty of Economics, Skopje)
"Privatization and Status of Employees in the Transition
period"
B7 PRESENTATION OF ILO STUDY ON EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP
IN EASTERN EUROPE
Round Table: Felix Fitzroy, Derek Jones, Mark Klinedinst,
Niels Mygind, Mario Nuti, Charles Rock, Milica Uvalic, Daniel Vaughn-Whitehead
B8 PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH METHODS
Gayle Broad (SPS, Bristol)
"Employee Participation and Employee Ownership in a Canadian Steel Company: Participative Action Research Methods"
Vera Vratusa-Zunjic (University of Belgrade)
"Participatory Research and Obstacles to its Implementation
in Former European 'Real-Socialist' Societies"
SESSION C: PARTICIPATION IN ACTION
C1 PARTICIPATION AND CAPITALIST ECONOMIES
Chistopher Gunn (Hobart and William Smith Colleges)
"Participation as Control"
Anne Androuais (University of Paris X)
"Japanese Participation in the Global Economy"
Veselin Djurdjevac
"Limits of Participation in Contemporary Capitalist
Societies"
C2 PARTICIPATION AND THE FIRM
Ales Vahcic (University of Ljubljana)
"Workers Participation and the Modern Firm"
Jonathan Michie (Birkbeck College, London)
"HRM Practices, R&D Expenditure and Innovative Investment: Evidence From the British Workforce Industrial Relations Survey"
Jan Erik Askildsen (University of Bergen)
"Union Membership and Wage Formation"
C3. PROFIT SHARING I
Alessandra del Boca & Elisabetta Capaiuolo (University of Perugia, Italy)
"Why Do Firms Introduce Financial Participation? Evidence from a Sample of Italian Manufacturing Companies"
Jim Sesil (LSE)
"Broad Based Employee Stock Option Plan and Communication
Programme at a UK Firm"
C4. PROFIT SHARING II
Jeff Pliskin & Derek Jones (Hamilton College, USA)
"Determinants of the Incidence of Merit Pay and Group Incentives: Evidence from Canada"
Virginie Perotin (ILO Geneva)
C5. PARTICIPATION AND TRADE UNIONS
Norman Watson (Wales Co-operative Centre, Cardiff)
"The Involvement of Trade Unions in the UK: Promotion and Development of Large Cooperatives"
Arturo Pacheco Espejel (Politecnico Nacional de Mexico)
"Productivity as a Base of Political Worker Participation"
Bart D. Finzel (University of Minnesota)
"Worker Participation in Unionized Firms"
DRAFT PROGRAMME 9TH CONFERENCE IAFEP
26TH-28TH JUNE 1998
FRIDAY 26TH JUNE
9.00-10.30 REGISTRATION
10.30-11.00 COFFEE
11.00-12.30 SESSION A1 & B1 &C1
1.00-2.00 LUNCH
2.00-3.30 SESSION A2 & B2 & C2
3.30-4.00 TEA
4.00-5.30 SESSION A3 & B3 &C3
5.30-7.00 KEYNOTE LECTURE 1
8.00 CONFERENCE DINNER
SATURDAY 27TH JUNE
9.00-10.30 SESSION A4 & B4
10.30-11.00 COFFEE
11.00-12.30 SESSION A5 & B5
1.00-2.00 LUNCH
2.00-3.30 SESSION A6 & B6 & C4
3.30-4.00 TEA
4.00-5.30 KEYNOTE LECTURE 2
5.30-7.00 GENERAL MEETING IAFEP
8.00-9.00 DINNER
SUNDAY 28TH JUNE
9.00-10.30 SESSION B7 &C5
10.30-11.00
11.00-12.30 SESSION A7 & B8
1.00-2.00 LUNCH AND DEPART
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CALL FOR PAPERS/FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT
The bi-annual IAFEP conferences provide an international forum for the presentation and debate of current research and scholarship on the economics of participation. The major themes of the 1998 conference will be:
Employee ownership and the transition to a market economy.
Employee participation in transnational corporations
The stakeholder economy: participation, trust and social inclusion
However, as at previous conferences, presentations in all areas of:
worker participation
self-management
employee ownership
economic and industrial democracy
labour-managed firms
cooperatives
profit sharing
are welcome as are papers covering new areas such as:
inter-firm cooperation and networks social enterprises in welfare services
Submissions are invited from all relevant fields of study including industrial economics, comparative economic systems, organisational studies, management studies, economic sociology, institutional economics, evolutionary economics, development economics, and studies of economies in transition.
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE
The deadline for the receipt of proposals for papers to be presented at the conference in the form of an abstract of up to 400 words is 15th March 1998, although authors are invited to submit their abstracts as soon as possible. Abstracts should include full details of institutional affiliation and a mailing address. Authors will be notified of acceptance of papers in April. The conference organisers will arrange for the reproduction of 50 copies of each paper, which should be up to 8,000 words in length, and submitted by 26th May.
Abstracts should be sent to:
Will Bartlett, School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, Rodney Lodge, Grange Rd, Bristol BS8 4EA, UK (Tel: +44-117-9741117; Fax: +44-117-9738308; e-mail: Will.Bartlett@bristol.ac.uk).
CONFERENCE FEE
The full conference fee covering three nights accommodation at Clifton Hill House from 25th-27th June, and all meals is £230. The conference fee includes membership of IAFEP for one year and a free subscription to the Associations journal Economic Analysis: Journal of Enterprise and Participation, a copy of the book of abstracts of all papers presented at the conference, reproduction of 50 copies of each paper, and participation at the conference dinner. Accommodation at local hotels can be arranged for a small supplement depending upon requirements. A limited number of bursaries of £120 each are available for participants on low incomes who lack institutional backing to attend the conference. Participants from eastern Europe, low income countries and post-graduate students will be favoured in allocation of the bursaries.
LOCATION
Bristol is a major cultural and economic centre for Southwest England, situated close to the historic town of Bath, one hundred miles west of London. There are good rail and road links from London and Heathrow airport, while Bristol airport connects directly with several major European cities including Paris and Amsterdam. The conference will be held at Clifton Hill House, a conference centre for Bristol University. Clifton Hill House is an imposing semi-rural mansion built in 1747 by the Bristol merchant and shipowner Paul Fisher, and is situated in the heart of Bristol close to the University. Accommodation is in single rooms. For those requiring double rooms or hotel facilities, accommodation can be arranged in local hotels on a payment of the appropriate supplement.
INFORMATION ABOUT THE ASSOCIATION
Information about the International Association for the Economics of Participation is available on the IAFEP www home page at http://ocean.st.usm.edu/ ~mklndnst/. This includes information about the last conference, details of sample works by members, and the composition of the Associations council.
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS: JOURNAL OF ENTERPRISE AND PARTICIPATION
The first issue of the new journal of the Association Economic Analysis: Journal of Enterprise and Participation will be published by Carfax publishing company in 1998. Members of IAFEP receive a free one year subscription to the journal upon payment of the membership fee of £25, which should be sent to Will Bartlett, School for Policy Studies at the address above, and made payable to IAFEP.
ADDRESS FOR CORRESPONDENCE
Administrative and booking enquiries should be sent to Fran Boyd, Course and Conference Co-ordinator, SPS, Rodney Lodge, Grange Rd, Bristol, BS8 4EA, (Tel: +44-117-9741117; fax: +44-117-9737308; e-mail: fran.boyd@bris.ac.uk).
The council of the International Association for the Economics of Participation (IAFEP) would like to invite you to the 8th Conference of IAFEP which will be held in Pyramida Hotel, Prague (Czech Republic), on August 22-24, 1996.
The conferences major theme will be Economic Participation and the Transition. Presentations in all areas of workers participation, self-management, and economic and industrial democracy are welcome (economic theory, empirical evidence, institutional and historical studies, experience in eastern and central Europe, developed and developing countries). We welcome topics that range from the theoretical to practical applications.
Although historically most who attend the conference are economists, we welcome geographers, sociologists, planners, labor leaders, etc. Sessions running in parallel will include theory, empirical studies, institutional and historical studies, and workshops for practioners and case studies.
As at our last conference in Slovenia in June 1994, a graduated registration fee will be used (with a maximum of $225, in order to subsidize in part expenses of colleagues from low-income countries and students). A full conference fee for members with over $40,000 in income is a) $175 per person or b) $225 per person in the case of institutional or grant support. A reduced conference fee for members with an income between $15,000 and $40,000 in income is a) $95 per person or b) $155 per person in the case of institutional or grant support. The minimum conference fee for members with incomes below $15,000 is a) $30 per person or b) $50 per person in the case of institutional or grant support.