PARTICIPATION IN THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY:
NEW OPPORTUNITIES, NEW PERSPECTIVES
University of Trento, Italy
6th - 8th July 2000
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 2000 conference
will be:
Innovative forms of participation
Participation in the age of e-commerce
Employee participation and the management of change
Finance and employee ownership
Employee ownership and economic transition
Participation and reconstruction in South East Europe
Inter-firm cooperation and business alliances
Participation, trust and social inclusion
Mutuality, social enterprise and participation
Presentations dealing with the following topics are also welcome :
worker participation
self-management
employee ownership
economic and industrial democracy
labour-managed firms
co-operatives
profit sharing
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
Abstracts of up to 300 words should include full details
of institutional affiliation, mailing address plus, possibly, a short
list of keywords. The deadline for the receipt of proposals
for papers to be presented at the conference in the form of an abstract
of up to 300 words is 15th February 2000. Authors will be notified
of the acceptance of their paper by 15th March 2000. Final papers
plus extended abstracts should be submitted to the organisers by 10th June
2000. 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: Alberto Zevi, CFI, Via
Vicenza 5A, 00185, Rome, Italy. They could also be sent by Fax to: +39-06-4451766
or by e-mail to A.ZEVI@CFI.IT.
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ECONOMICS OF PARTICIPATION (IAFEP)
The International Association for the Economics of Participation (IAFEP), was established at Portoroz, Slovenia in 1994. Formerly the International Association for the Economics of Workers Management, the academic activity of the new association reflects and analyses the widening scope and importance of employee participation, employee ownership, and alternative and non-hierarchical forms of business organisation in the emerging global economy.
IAFEP also holds a biannual conference. The last conference was held at the University of Bristol, UK, from 26th-28th June 1998. The next conference will be held at the University of Trento, Italy on 6th-8th July 2000.
Why Join?
Membership of the Association is open to all those
who wish to participate in the Association activities, and who have an
interest in the themes of employee participation in the widest sense, employee
ownership, co-operatives, labour-managed firms, codetermination, profit-sharing,
workers councils, non profit and voluntary sector organisations and economic
and business networks, as well as studies covering the topics of trust,
altruism and collaboration in economic life.
Membership fee and registration
Membership of the Association costs GBP 30. Delegates
who register for the IAFEP conference in Arco (Trento) in July 2000 will
receive complimentary membership. The Conference fee (inclusive of accommodation)
is expected around 390€ (about 250GBP/450US$).
Council of the IAFEP
Will Bartlett, President of the IAFEP (Bristol University,
UK), Alberto Zevi (University of Rome, Italy), Juan Espinosa (CIENES, Chile),
Saul Estrin (London Business School, UK), Branko Horvat , Founding President,
(Zagreb, Croatia), Derek Jones (Hamilton College, USA), Milena Jovicic
(Institute of Economic Sciences, Yugoslavia), Niels Mygind (Copenaghen
Business School, Denmark), Sonja Novkovic (Saint Marys University, Halifax,
Canada), Virginie Perotin (International Labour Organization, Geneva, Switzerland),
Stephen C. Smith (George Washington University, USA), Milica Uvalic (University
of Perugia, Italy), Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead (European Commission, Brussels),
Jaroslav Vanek (Cornell University, USA).
Scientific Committee for the 10th IAFEP Conference
in Trento
Will Bartlett (University of Bristol, UK)
Carlo Borzaga, (University of Trento, Italy)
Derek Jones (Hamilton College, USA)
Marco A. Marini (University of Urbino, Italy)
Domenico M. Nuti (London Business School, UK)
Stephen C. Smith (George Washington University, USA)
Milica Uvalic, (University of Perugia, Italy)
Alberto Zevi, (University of Rome, Italy)
Further 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 details about the forthcoming conference,
the Associations journal Economic Analysis: Journal of Enterprise and
Participation, details of sample works by members, and the composition
of the Associations council.
10th Conference of the
International Association for the Economics of Participation
6th-8th July 2000
Arco (Trento, Italy)
PRE-REGISTRATION FORM
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CFI, Via Vicenza 5A, 00185, Rome, Italy
Fax: +39-06-4451766, e-mail: A.ZEVI@CFI.IT
by the 15th of February 2000.