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Co–Operative Management Journal Cover+spine Aug 2014_Layout 1 10/11/2014 10:24 Page 1 ISSN 1741 –4814 The INTerNATIoNAl JoUrNAl of T H E I N T Co –operative E R N A T I O N ManageMent A L J O U VOLUME 7 NUMBER 1 AUGUST 2014 R N A L O F C O - O P E R A T I V E M A N A G E M E N T Future Issues: Service Sector Co-operatives Worker Co-operatives V O L THIS ISSUE: Sustainability: Co-operative initiation U M E GOVERNANCE, ACCOUNTING AND ACCOUNTABILITY The UK Co-operative decline: Can it be reversed? 7 AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES Trade Union Co-operative relation: Short term or strategic? EFEREED APERS: EW PPROACHES O GOVERNANCE N ORKER O- PERATIVES. R P N A T I W C O Developing themes: N Character, attitudes and values: Developing the Co-operative Manager U THE UK CO- OPERATIVE GROUP CRISIS AND- GOVERNANCE FAILURES. M Strategies for globalisation B CO- OPERATIVE BOARD PERFORMANCE. ECONOMETRIC MODELLING FOR E R PERFORMANCE AND GOVERNANCE IN AGRICULTURAL CO- OPERATIVES. Resource depletion and climate change: The Co-operative response 1 MULTI STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT IN CO- OPERATIVES. EXECUTIVE OPINION: INTEGRATED ACCOUNTING AND REPORTING AT VANCITY. A U G GOVERNANCE AND SUSTAINABILITY IN TIMES OF RAPID CHANGE IN THE U S CO- OPERATIVE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR. CO- OPERATIVES UK CODES OF CONDUCT. T 2 GOVERNANCE CHALLENGES FOR CO- OPERATIVE BANKING FROM AFRENCH 0 1 4 PERSPECTIVE Co-Operative Management_Journal_aug.2014 (alis dyanna's conflicted copy 2014-09-02)_Layout 1 29/10/2014 19:05 Page 3 International Journal of Co-operative Management Editor Dr. Peter Davis, Director, Unit for Membership Based Organisations, School of Management, University of Leicester Guest Editor Prof Sonja Novkovic, Sobey School of Business, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Canada Associate Editors Dr Yiorgos Alexopoulos, Department of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural University of Athens Prof. Samuel M. Natale, Chair, Department of Management, Adelphi University, New York Commissioning Editor Robby Tulus, Consultant Editorial Consultant John Donaldson, Foundation Member, New Harmony Press Ltd Editorial Advisory Board Sister Helen Alford, O.P. Angelicum Prof. Pilar Alguacil, Professor of Tax Law, University of Valencia, Spain Prof. Dr Johann Brazda, Department of Business Administration – Co-operative Studies, University of Vienna Prof. Suleman Chambo, Former Principal, University College of Co-operative and Business Studies, Moshi Prof. Elba Echevarría Díaz, MPA, Cateddrática Auxiliar, Instituto de Co-operativismo, Facultad d Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Puerto Rico Mr John Harvey, Former Chief Executive, Co-op Atlantic, Canada Dr Tapani Köppä, Ruralia Institute Mikkeli, University of Helsinki Mr Akiria Kurimoto, Acting Director, Consumer Co-operative Institute of Japan Mr Mario Mazzoleni, MBA Director, Masters Division, dell’ Universitá Bocconi Prof. Costas Papageorgiou, Dept of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural University of Athens Prof. Sigismundo Bialoskorski Neto, Department of Economics, University of Sao Paulo Dr Panayiotis Kaldis, Dept of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural University, Athens Prof Ghislain Paradis, Université de Sherbrook Dr K. Ramesha, National Institute of Bank Management, India Mr Ian Snaith, Department of Law, University of Leicester Prof Gustavo Lejarriaga Perez de las Vacas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid Prof. Steve Worthington, Department of Marketing, Monash University Madam HJH Armi Zainudin, General Manager, Koperasi JCP Merchantile, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Former Director of the Co-operative College of Malaysia Address for correspondence (for submission of manuscripts, see inside back cover) Dr. Peter Davis, Chartered FCIPD, AHEA Unit for Membership Based Organisations, School of Management, Ken Edwards Building, University of Leicester, University Road,Leicester, LE1 7RH.United Kingdom. Designed by design&print co | www.designandprintco.com © New Harmony Press Ltd 2014 ISSN 1741-4814 Co-Operative Management_Journal_aug.2014 (alis dyanna's conflicted copy 2014-09-02)_Layout 1 29/10/2014 19:05 Page 4 cOnTEnTS INTerNATIoNAl JourNAl of Co-operATIVe MANAgeMeNT VOLUME 7NUMBER 1 AUGUST 2014 Contents Notes on Contributors..........................................................................................................................4 A Note From The Guest Editor .......................................................................................................7 Refereed Papers: Common Meritocracy Challenge. How members of the Mexican co-operative “Pascual” tack between oligarchy and democracy. Ryszard Stoki.......................................................................................................................................9 Innovation in the governance of large co-operative businesses: the alarming case of UK Co-operative Group Johnston Birchall ...............................................................................................................................22 Unique Expectations of Co-operative Boards: taking on the challenges of the democratic enterprise Arthur Sherwood and Keith Taylor....................................................................................................29 The Relationship between Performance and Governance in Agricultural Co-operatives. A structural equation modelling approach See Yang and Fabio R. Chaddad........................................................................................................43 Multi-stakeholder Governance. A social enterprise case study Silvia Sacchetti and Ermanno Tortia..................................................................................................58 Case Study: Co-operative Accountability. Vancity integrated reporting model Joanne Westwood...............................................................................................................................73 Executive Opinion: SAOS Ltd Working with Agricultural Co-operatives to Deliver Strategies for Growth and Resilience in Uncertain Times Bob Yuill.............................................................................................................................................79 Co-operative Governance Codes in the UK Ed Mayo.............................................................................................................................................84 Heirs and annuitants of co-operative banks –three principles for securing the long-term future of co-operative governance Jean-Louis Bancel and Olivier Boned................................................................................................90 Recognition of International Journal of Co-operative Management The Journal is listed in Cabells Management Directory, the premier journal listing agency in the USA. International Journal of Co-operative Management • Volume 7 • Number 1 • August 2014 3 Co-Operative Management_Journal_aug.2014 (alis dyanna's conflicted copy 2014-09-02)_Layout 1 29/10/2014 19:05 Page 5 nOTES On THE cOnTRIBUTORS co-operative federations, the UK government and UN Notes on the Contributors agencies, and written ten books on these subjects (with translations into nine other languages), including Special Issue guest editor People-centred Businesses: Co-operatives, Mutual’s and the Idea of Membership (Palgrave Macmillan, Sonja Novkovic is a Professor of Economics at 2010) and Finance in an Age of Austerity: the Power Saint Mary's University, and Academic of Customer-owned Banks (Edward Elgar, 2013). co-director in the Co-operative Management Education program. Her research interests are in the 4S14 Colin Bell Building, University of Stirling field of co-operative and labour-managed firms, Stirling, FK9 4LA, United Kingdom social economy, and comparative economic systems. Currently, she is the Chair of the International Co- He can be contacted at: [email protected] operative Alliance Research Committee and Phone: 01786 467981 Academic co-lead of the Measuring the Co-operative Fax: 01786 466299 Difference Research Networkin collaboration with Co-operatives and Mutual’s Canada. Prof. Novkovic is past president of the International Association for Olivier Boned • Corresponding author. the Economics of Participation (IAFEP) and Vice Chair the French association of Young Leaders in President of the Canadian Association for Studies in social economy from 2012. He is also project manager Co-operation (CASC). Her publications include of the International Co-operative Banking Association Advances in the Economics of Participatory and and Associate Professor at the University of Le Mans Labour Managed Firms. Co-operative Firms in in France. He was involved in several Mutual’s and Global Markets: Incidence, Viability and Economic co-operative banks during the last 15 years. Performance (co-edited with Vania Sena, Elsevier Science, Amsterdam 2007), A tlantic Canada’s Social Economy: Communities, Economies, and Solidarity He can be contacted at: [email protected] (co-edited with Leslie Brown, CBU Press 2012) and Co-operative Innovations in China and the West ( co- Fabio R. Chaddad • Corresponding author. edited with Caroline Gijselinckx and Associate Professor of Agribusiness Economics at Li Zhao, Palgrave MacMillan 2014). the Division of Applied Social Sciences, University of Missouri and Insper Business School in São Paulo, Author’s Brazil. He currently teaches strategic management, corporate governance and organizational economics Jean-Louis Bancel. Chair of the International at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He is also Co-operative Banking Association.
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