ICA Cooperative Research Conference - Theme 1. Examining Our Cooperative Identity

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1. Examining Our Cooperative Identity

Manifestation of cooperative identity

• The Cooperative Identity at US Credit Unions (Jordan van Rijn, CUNA, University of Wisconsin-Madison, US)
• The effect of a crisis context on French wine exports: Comparison of independent wineries and wine cooperatives (Foued Cheriet, Institut Agro Montpellier, France / Carole Maurel, Université de Montpellier, France / Hervé Hannin, Institut Agro Montpellier, France)
• From principles to actions: Conceptualizing and Implementing Kibbutz Cooperative Identity (Anat Marle Heffetz, Ayelet Glass, Merav Niv, Kibbutz Movement, Israel)
• Understanding Cooperative Orientation in the Cooperative Banking Context (Svenja Damberg, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany)

[Panel session] Operationalizing Cooperative Identity

• Chair - Sonja Novkovic and Karen Miner (Saint Mary's University, Canada)
• Erbin Crowell (Neighboring Food Co-op Association, US)
• Fred Freundlich (Mondragon University, Spain)
• Balasubramanian Iyer (ICA AP)
• Sonja Novkovic (Saint Mary's University, Canada)
• Karen Miner (Saint Mary's University, Canada)

Cooperative identity and challenges

• How does institutional change emerge? The case study of Korean consumer cooperatives' Fair Trade practices (KIM Sunhwa, Sungkonghoe University, Korea)
• "Indexing Shared Struggle: A pattern language for realistic co-op development" (Daniel Spitzberg, Turning Basin Labs / CU Boulder, US)

• The Future of Multi-purpose Agricultural Cooperatives and Identity Problems in Korea (PARK Seong-jae, GSnJ Institute, Korea)
• Individualization of society and changing role of Japanese consumer cooperatives - Challenges of cooperative principles and identity in Japan (TANAKA Iruma and HANZAWA Akihiro, Seikatsu Club Kanagawa, Japan)
• The Trust Crisis of Current Democracies and the (potential) Cooperative Solution - Waiving the Cooperative Alternative to Capitalism (Yifat Solel, OFEK Credit Union / Haifa University, Israel)
• A Theoretical Study on Cooperative Identity through the lessons from the experience of Japanese Co-op Movement and Yugoslavia's workers' self-management (MUKAI Kiyoshi, Nagoya City University, Japan)

Cooperative values

• Decolonising co-operatives and the co-operative identity (Tlotlan Osiame Molefe, University of Johannesburg, South Africa)
• Teoría de Juegos y Principios y Valores Cooperativos (Bogdan Radu Mahelka and Carmen Marcuello Servós, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain)
• The cooperative organization: solidarity, trust, and trustworthiness as ethical means of housing development (Billy Ndengeyingoma, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK)
• Ética Discursiva de Responsabilidad Social Cooperativa. Su Identidad. (Ramón Santelices Tello, CONAVICOOP, Chile)

Diverse philosophical foundations

• Reflections on cooperativism as a transformative way of being human: perspectives from the Korean philosophical movement of Donghak (Eastern Learning) (Jonathan Dolley, University of Sussex, UK)
• The Authentic Cooperative Identity: Cooperation as Anarchist Philosophy (Emily M Lippold Cheney, Independent researcher, US)
• On Confucian Understanding of Co-operative Thought (JEON Hyeong-Soo, Daegu University, Korea)
• Shifting Meanings of the Cooperative Identity - The importance of the anthropological approach in the cooperative development discourse (Camilla Carabini (Università Milano Bicocca, Italy)

Cooperative advantage - how and for what

• What's in a Word: Co-operatives, Imperfect Information, Signals, Deception, and Constructing the Co-operative Advantage - The Example of the Health & Fitness Industry (Hannah Altman, Queensland University of Technology, Australia, Morris Altman, University of Dundee, UK)
• Do cooperatives drive social change? A relational analysis of a dairy cooperative of Gujarat, India (Shyam Singh, Institute of Rural Management Anand, India)
• How (not) to build strong cooperative entrepreneurial networks: Deepening autonomy and organizational learning in (worker) cooperatives (Orestis Varkarolis (Nottingham Trent University, UK)

[Panel session] Statistics on the social and solidarity economy (SSE): cooperative and SSE identity

• Chair - YI Ilcheong (UNRISD)
• Marie J. Bouchard (Université du Québec à Montéral, Canada / CIRIEC International Scientific Commission on Social and Cooperative economy) and Gabriel Salathé-Beaulieu (TIESS, Canada)
• Rafael Chaves (Universitat de Valencia and GECES, Spain)
• EUM Hyungsik (ICA)
• CHOI Dongil (ILO Coop Unit)
• Barbara Sak, Coline Compère and Jérôme Schoenmaeckers (CIRIEC International)

1.1 Through a Strong Cooperative Brand

Cooperative Branding

• Maintaining the Cooperative Identity in Times of COVID - Reinventing and Communicating the Co-operative Brand (Emmanuel Munyarukumbuzi, African Leadership University, Rwanda and Sidsel Grimstad, University of Newcastle, Australia)
• Participatory action research and documentary filmmaking to investigate and disseminate about cooperative identity: the case of the aroundtheworld.coop project (Sara Vicari, Roma Tre University / aroundtheworld.coop, Italy, Andrea Mancori, aroundtheworld.coop, Italy, Cécile Berranger, Roma Tre University / aroundtheworld.coop / Manchester Metropolitan University, Italy, Giorgia Amato, Roma Tre University, aroundtheworld.coop, Italy)
• Developing cooperative understanding in cooperative organizations (Gurli Jakobsen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark)

• Cooperative Identity and Brand Recognition in Consumer Cooperatives (Rodrigo Gouveia, Manuel Mariño and Jorge Cabrera, PromoCoop)
• "C Day": the movement that states the power of cooperatives (Alexandre Gatti Lages, Sistema OCB, Brazil)
• CONSUMER-BRAND RELATIONSHIPS (CBR): An empirical study from an integrative model about internships in a financial cooperative in Brazil (Fabrício Henrique de Figueiredo, OCB / Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)

1.2. Through Inclusive Governance

Cooperative governance

• The Influence of Diversity of Boards of Directors on the Performance of Cooperatives: The Mediating Effect of Conflict (KANG Hyun-ju, Osan Social Economy Support Center, Korea, LEE Sun-Hee, Sungkonghoe University, Korea, LEE Sang-Youn, Sungkonghoe University, Korea)
• Cooperative identity and humanistic governance (Sonja Novkovic and Cian McMahon, Saint Mary's University, Canada)
• Assessing the linkages between democratic governance and members' participation in cooperatives (Neha Christie, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India)

• Inclusive governance and enterprise sustainability: developing new tools for member participation (Riccardo Bodini, EURICSE, Italy, Michele Pasinetti, CAUTO Social cooperative, Italy, Elena Rocca, CAUTO Social cooperative, Italy and Silvia Sacchetti, University of Trento, Italy)
• Measuring Control Mechanisms for Good Governance in Selected Multi-purpose Cooperative Societies Affiliated to Robi Barga Cooperative Union, West Shoa Zone, Oromia Regional State of Ethiopia (M. Karthikeyan, Wollo University, Ethiopia and Mekonnen Tolessa Edossa, Oromia Regional Cooperative Agency, Ethiopia)
• Governance codes for hybrid organizations: the case of cooperative enterprises (Jozef Cossey, KU Leuven & UCLouvain, Belgium, Adrien Billiet, KU Leuven, Belgium, Frédéric Dufays, KU Leuven & University of Liège, Belgium and Johan Bruneel, KU Leuven & IESEG School of Management, Belgium)

Members' participation

• Members' Participation in Governance of Agricultural Cooperatives: A Qualitative Analysis in Punjab, Pakistan (Munib ur Rehman, Cooperative Societies Department, Government of Punjab, Pakistan)
• A Study on Participation and Behavior of the Member of Korean Consumer Cooperative - Focused on the role of member's self-efficacy and psychological ownership (LEE Yena, HBM Social cooperative, Korea)
• "Driving Recovery Through Cooperative Enterprises" (Fred Sitati, Cooperative consultant, Kenya)
• Coops are cool. Yet youths don't get it! (Marcelina Kornelia Zjawińska, Foundation Splot Społeczny, Poland)

Gender equality

• Gender Participation for Deepening Cooperative Identity - Cooperative Perspectives in India (Sudha Kornginnaya, Besant Women's College, India)
• La participación femenina en el cooperativismo brasileño y mundial (Suzane Grimm and Dimas de Oliveira Estevam, Universidade do extreme Sul Catarinense, Brazil)
• Rôle de l’économie sociale et solidaire dans l’empowerment de la femme : Cas l’Union des Coopératives des Femmes pour la production et la commercialisation de l’huile d’Argan (UCFA)-Maroc (Aicha Ahnach and Lahoussine Rachidi, Université Ibn Zohr Agadir, Morocco)
• The Role of the Cooperative Identity as a Driver of SDG 5 (Vera Lucia de Oliveira, Cooperada, Brazil and Cristina Arzabe, EMBRAPA, Brazil)

[Panel session] Aportes de la investigación para el abordaje de una perspectiva de género en las organizaciones cooperativas y de la Economía Social y Solidaria

• Chair - Violeta Boronat Pont (Instituto Universitario de la Cooperación, Argentina)
• Valeria Mutuberría Lazarini (Instituto Universitario de la Cooperación, Argentina)
• Anabel Rieiro Castañeira (Universidad de la República, Uruguay)
• Beatriz Schwenck (Universidad Nacional de Campinas, Brazil)
• Nadia Eslinda Castillo Romero (Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla, México)
• Claudia de Lisio (Instituto Universitario de la Cooperación, Argentina / Instituto Nacional del Cooperativismo, Uruguay)