IAFEP 2006

XIIIth Conference of the

International Association for the Economics of Participation

 

Expanding Democratic Firms,
Broadening Economic Democracy

 

Faculty of Business Studies - Mondragon University (Basque Country, Spain)

13-15 July, 2006 (study visit to Mondragon cooperatives 12 July)

Castellano Euskara

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Background

 

This is the Web site for the the 2006 Conference of the International Association for the Economics of Participation (IAFEP), to be hosted by the Faculty of Business Studies (ETEO) of Mondragon University, 13-15 July, 2006 (with presentations on/study visit to the Mondragon cooperatives, 12 July).

 

The International Association for the Economics of Participation (IAFEP) is dedicated to exploring the economics of democratic and participatory economic organizations, such as labour-managed firms, cooperatives and firms with broad-based employee share-ownership, profit-sharing and worker participation schemes, as well as democratic nonprofit, community and social enterprises. The IAFEP Conferences, which take place every two years, provide an international forum for the presentation and debate of current research and scholarship on the economics of participation.

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Scope of the Conference

The major themes of the 2006 conference will be:

  • The incidence of democratic economic organizations in industrialised, transition and developing economies
  • The creation, growth and survival of employee-owned firms
  • Strategies for supporting the expansion of economic democracy
  • Issues facing expanding and transnational employee-owned firms
  • Participation and discriminated or marginalised groups
  • The evolution of employee ownership in transition economies
  • The development and (in)stability of employee share ownership in conventional firms
  • Financial instruments for cooperatives and employee-owned firms
  • The potential benefits of applied research for cooperative and employee-owned firms.

As in past IAFEP conferences, presentations in the following areas are welcome:

  • Worker participation
  • Self-management, labour-managed firms
  • Employee ownership
  • Co-determination
  • Cooperatives
  • Economic and industrial democracy
  • Profit sharing and stock options
  • Community and social enterprises.

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The official language of the conference will be English, though simultaneous translation (Spanish-English / English-Spanish) will be provided for the study tour on 12 July and 13 July, the first day of the conference.