Journée d’étude au Palais du Luxembourg (salle Monnerville), organisé par le Pôle de ressources pour l’histoire sociale, mutualiste et coopérative de Limoges et du Limousin, en partenariat avec la Recma.
Le Réseau Interuniversitaire de l’ESS – RIUESS - organise son XIIIe colloque à Angers les 5-7 juin 2013 sur le thème "Penser et faire l’ESS aujourd’hui. Valeurs, Statuts, Projets?". L'appel à communications est ouvert jusqu'au 18 mars 2013.
This symposium of the United nations Research Institute for Social Development seeks to: (i) understand the conditions and contexts that enable social and solidarity economy (SSE) to expand; and (ii) assess the implications of such processes and interactions with external actors and institutions for realizing the potential of SSE as a distinctive approach to development. What sort of enabling environment is needed for SSE realize its potential and sustain itself over the long term?
The 8th ISTR Asia Pacific Regional Conference. The third sector in the Asia Pacific region is very large and dynamic − it is claimed that China and India have 1+ million third sector organizations. The major growth in the third sector in Asia had been in the 1970s and 1980s – during the prodemocracy movements. The third sector activities and organizations, in the recent past, have also been influenced by many tax laws e.g. in Australia, Japan, Korea. Sadly democratization and recent extremist activities have prompted new legislations constricting the third sector in many countries. Laws affecting the third sector in the Asia Pacific region having been in existence for about 150 years have grown rapidly in the last two decades. Is this development for better or for worse? Call for paper until 31th March
The Third Sector - 'broadly defined as the voluntary, charitable, co-operative, religious, health and educational organisations which sit outside the confines of the private (‘profit’) and public sectors - is facing a rapidly changing environment which challenges its efficient management and continuation. This research workshop seeks to examine current influences on the effective operation of these non-profit organisations. We are interested in high quality research papers which address the managerial challenges facing this sector. The organisers are particularly interested in the results of managerial, economic and inter-disciplinary approaches. This workshop organised by the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM), will be of interest to researchers active in this area but also to policy-makers, senior managers and practitioners from all disciplines.
Microfinance has become a large banking segment as well as a widely practiced development tool. The present microfinance industry is confronted with a broad range of dilemmas and unsolved problems, and the debate about the development effect of microfinance continues. This provides our motivation for the invitation to researchers from all disciplines within social sciences and economics.The aim of the European Research Conference on Microfinance is to be the World’s most important meeting place of academics involved in microfinance research. The two former conferences organized by the Centre for European Research in Microfinance (CERMi) at the University Libre De Brussels, and by University of Groningen in the Netherlands have seen the turnout of several hundred researchers, as well as many practitioners interested in academic research, from across the globe. The upcoming conference is organized by the University of Agder in cooperation with the European Microfinance Platform (http://www.e-mfp.eu/), CERMi (www.cermi.eu) and University of Groningen (www.rug.nl/gsg) .
Le colloque 2013 du CIRIEC-Canada (colloque 458) se tiendra dans le cadre du 81 e Congrès de l’Association francophone pour le savoir. Date limite de remise des propositions de communication: 25 janvier 2013. Thème : Peut-on naviguer sans gouvernail? La gouvernance et les indicateurs d’évaluation dans les entreprises publiques et d’économie sociale
L’objet de ce colloque organisé par France business school (FBS) à l'Escem de Tours est de s’enquérir des travaux déjà existants dans d’autres disciplines des sciences humaines et sociales portant sur la responsabilité de manière générique. Il s’agira de voir comment ces travaux peuvent éclairer, mettre en perspective et même remettre en cause les différentes théories de la responsabilité sociale de l’entreprise dans ces différents aspects, qu’il s’agisse de la théorie des parties prenantes, de la gouvernance d’entreprise, etc. Etant donné que le spectre des disciplines labellisées comme sciences humaines et sociales est étendu, les disciplines suivantes ont été retenues eu égard à la fréquence de leur usage sur le thème de la responsabilité : la philosophie, la théologie, la sociologie, la psychanalyse, l’écologie et le droit.
For some centuries, in the North as well in the South, social economy has unfolded in various forms. The institutions of the social economy (cooperatives, mutuals, nonprofit organizations, etc.) have experienced periods of growth and recession, of both success and failure, in the supporting, complementing and/or counteracting roles in relation to the dominant economic model in place. This 4th CIRIEC International Research Conference on the Social Economy aims in particular at discussing the place of social economy in modern society and its current role when facing potentially heavy structural transformations and new regulatory frameworks. Thanks to the more or less permanent dynamic features of this field in society, social economy initiatives and enterprises foster bottom up changes which in turn favour structural changes and in many cases are the agents of change in regulation. This includes for example regulation centred on non-market values, cooperative regulation, next to administrative and competitive regulation.
The ICA global conference for 2013 hosted at the European University of Cyprus aims to bring together the academia and industry in the crucial sector of cooperatives and social economy. We are now in a long period of crisis, financial crisis at the beginning, but economic and social crisis thereafter. This crisis has several aspects and consequences, such as failure of enterprises, unemployment, even risk of failure for countries. We need to examine, therefore, the consequences for the cooperative and social economy entities; how they have behaved so far, which changes took place, and how they will emerge from the crisis.
