Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Cooperative Responses to Global Challenges

Wednesday, March 21

from 11:00          Registration: Conference Office

Opening

14:00 - 15:00      Plenary Session I: Welcome   |   Chair: Markus Hanisch
                            (Will be simultaneously translated into German)

• Markus Hanisch, Chair of the conference, Humboldt University Berlin
• Jan-Hendrik Olbertz, President of Humboldt University Berlin
• Knut Nevermann, State Secretary of Education and Science, Berlin
• Christoph Linzbach, Federal Ministry of Senior Citizens, Youth and Family Affaires, Berlin
  

• Eckhard Ott, Chairman of the Board of Directors, German Cooperative and Raiffeisen Confederation

15:00 - 15:30         Coffee Break

15:30 - 17:00      Plenary Session II: Key Notes     |   Chair: Markus Hanisch

                            (Will be simultaneously translated into German)

• Global challenges and the International Year of Cooperatives
  Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Ass. Secretary General, United Nations DESA, New York

• Rural producer organizations in the 21st century
  Marie-Hélène Collion, Lead Agriculturist, World Bank, Washington D.C.
  

17:00                  Opening of the Conference Exhibitions and Poster Sessions

• Posters Session, Cooperative History, Best Practice Cooperative Enterprises 

• Cooperative museums, historical exhibitions, selection of cooperative enterprises, and research poster will be presented.

                                                               

19:00                   Conference Dinner      Hotel Radisson Blue

Thursday, March 22

• Coordination in cooperatives versus IOFs
  Li Feng; George Hendrikse
  

• Can cooperatives compete with privately owned firms regarding product quality and reputation?
  Guenter Schamel
  

• Customer commitment: comparing cooperatives and IOFs in farm supplies
  Jos Bijman; Frans Verhees
  

• The efficiency of cooperatives and investor-owned companies: an application to Polish dairy sector
  Katarzyna Aleksandra Gradziuk
  

9:00 - 10:30      Parallel Session I b: Linking producers and consumers    |   Chair: Markus Hanisch

• Consumer-producer alliance in the food value chain: rationales and evolution of Sanchoku
  Akira Kurimoto
  

• The role of producer-consumer cooperative federation to tackle the problem of market failure in agriculture: a case study from Hyderabad, India
  Zakir Hussain Shaik
  

• Community-supported agriculture and consumer cooperatives in India
  Nina Osswald; Markus Hanisch
  

• Korea's consumer cooperatives and SCM (Supply Chain Management): Using system dynamics simulation
  Dasom Kim, Sang Sun Park, Seungkwon Jang
  

9:00 - 10:30      Parallel Session I c: Cooperative provision of services    |   Chair: Larry Haiven (requested)

• An alternative to state or private delivery of public utilities: the role of cooperatives in Canada’s rural areas
  Larry Haiven
  

• A new database on financial services cooperatives: description and first result
  Jean Roy
  

• The revival of cooperative coffee marketing services in Uganda
  Nana Afranaa Kwapong; Ephraim Nkonya
  

9:00 - 10:30      Parallel Session I d: Managing the dairy market I   |   Chair: Martin Odening

• Determinants of milk quality and productivity among dairy cooperative members and non-members in Ethiopia
  Clarietta Chagwiza
  

• Prices paid and value for members: dairy processing and marketing cooperatives in three Italian provinces
  Chiara Cazzuffi
  

• Strategies and effects of milk producers´ organisations in the Czech Republic
  Tomas Ratinger; Iveta Boskova; Miluse Abrahamova
  

• Cooperatives and producer prices - evidence from analyzing the European dairy sectors
  Markus Hanisch; Malte Müller; Jens Rommel
  

 
9:00 - 10:30      Parallel Session I e: Policies towards cooperatives   |   Chair: Juhani Laurinkari

• Public policy support for agricultural cooperatives: an organizational economics approach
  Constantine Iliopoulos
  

• Cooperatives and producers’ organizations in Polish agricultural: legal and economic aspects
  Aneta Suchoń
  

• Selective award of a public privilege: an analytical evaluation of an obstacle to the growth of credit unions in the UK
  Richard A Werner
  

11:00 - 12:30      Parallel Session II a: Access to finance   |   Chair: Nathanael Diba Ojong

• The role of no frills accounts in financial inclusion: evidence from Hooghly, India
  Chirodip Majumdar
  

• Taking them seriously: credit unions as vehicles for microfinance delivery in Cameroon
  Nathanael Diba Ojong
  

• Agriculture cooperative financial institutions: the Portuguese case
  Maria de Fátima Ferreiro; Sérgio Lagoa

• Microfinance lending program of cooperatives in Cebu, Philippines: Realities, benefits and women’s participation
  Fedinand Tesado Abocejo

11:00 - 12:30      Parallel Session II b: Cooperative performance and management in financial crisis   |   Chair: Bouke de Vries

• How much and for how long? The growth and the dynamics of Italian cooperative banks from 2004 to 2009
  Ivana Catturani; Maria Lucia Stefani
  

• Performance of European cooperative banks in the recent financial and economic crisis
  Nicole Smolders; Ian Koetsier; Bouke de Vries
  

• Cooperative banking in crisis and transition: credit unions in Ireland
  Robert Bruce Graha
  

• Performance of German cooperative banks during the financial crisis
  Andreas Bley
  

11: 00 - 12:30      Parallel Session II c: Central and Eastern Europe Country Session  |   Chair: Ivan Boevsky

• Values, social dimensions and results from the development of worker producers cooperatives in Bulgaria
  Julia Markova Doitchinova; Albena Todorova Miteva; Ivan Stoykov Kanchev
  

• Visions on the modernization of consumer co-operatives and the increase of its impact upon the socio-economic development of the republic of Moldova
  Larisa Savga
  

• Factors influencing farmers' willingness to organize for collective marketing in Slovenia
  Andrej Udovc
  

11:00 - 12:30      Parallel Session II d: Theorizing the cooperative idea   |   Chair: Vladislav Valentinov   

• Understanding the rural third sector: insights from Veblen and Bogdanov
  Vladislav Valentinov
  

• Member involvement in small and large farm supply cooperatives
  Jerker Nilsson; Li Feng; Anna Friis
  

• On the survival of agricultural cooperatives: evidence from an econometric study of age dependence in organizational mortality
  Damien Rousselière; Iragaël Joly
  

• The renewed case for farmers’ cooperatives: diagnostics and implications from Ghana
  Gian Nicola Francesconi; Fleur Wouterse

14:00 - 15:30      Plenary Session III

• One hundred years of academic output in peer reviewed journals: the evolution of cooperative research and the way ahead
  Michael Cook, University of Missouri, USA

Subsequent

• Award ceremony: OIKOCREDIT Young researchers award
  
• Showcase: Conference events in the International Year 2012
  

16:15 - 17:45      Parallel Session III a: Cooperative management of natural resources    |   Chair: Konrad Hagedorn

• The increasing importance of cooperative institutions for sustainable natural resource governance
  Konrad Hagedorn
  

• Community-based cooperation for transition towards clean cooking fuel
  Bibhu P. Nayak; Veena Aggarwal; Christine Werthmann
  

• Collective environmental governance as key instrument of climate change adaptation with landscape approach
  Stefanie Christmann; Aden Aw-Hassan
  

16:15 - 17:45      Parallel Session III b: Managing the dairy market II   |   Chair: Reiner Doluschitz

• Cooperative responses to changes in the institutional and economic environment
  Lampros Lamprinakis
  

• New York dairy farms' adoption of management tactics during economic slowdown
  Pei Xu
  

• Role of cooperatives in enhancing long-term competitiveness of farmers: evidence from dairy sector in Uttarakhand state of India
  Dwaipayan Bardhan; M.L. Sharma
  

16:15 - 17:45      Parallel Session III c: Coops in poverty alleviation   |   Chair: Hans-H. Münkner

• Cooperatives for development policy – concepts and misconceptions
  Hans-H.Münkner
  

• The effects of coffee marketing cooperative performance on member household characteristics in Ethiopia: the case of coffee cooperatives in Sidama Zone
  Amsaya Anteneh Woubie
  

• What do we know about cooperatives and poverty reduction? A literature review
  Nana Afranaa Kwapong; Markus Hanisch
  

• Searching for viable sustainable income-generating alternatives: the case of coffee cooperatives in Los Tuxtlas Biosphere Reserve, Veracruz, Mexico
  Anne Cristina de la Vega-Leinert; Ludger Brenner; Christoph Schaller; Juliane Strubel
  

16:15 - 17:45      Parallel Session III d: Globalization of markets   |   Chair: Petri Ollila

• The international development of French cooperative groups: the influence of territorial constraint
  Maryline Filippi; Olivier Frey; Stéphanie Peres
  

• About the importance of Hungarian co-operative law in the globalization
  Mária Réti
  

• Farmer’s solidarity and the process of producer cooperatives’ internationalization
  Petri L.A. Ollila; Jerker Nilsson
  

16:15 - 17:45      Parallel Session III e: The status and inclusion of women    |   Chair: Ingrid Schmale

• Impact of micro-finance on the development of women self-help group members
  Bhavya Venkatesh Kodigehalli; Saikumar C. Bharamappanavara; Umesh K.B

• Does participation in microcredit cooperatives improve the value of women´s time use? Evidence from India
  P. Mahendra Varman

• Women Self-Help Groups as cooperative ventures for generating social capital and targeting poverty in rural Rajasthan
  Asutosh Pradhan

Side event: Podium discussion

(in German language)

• 19:00 – 21.00    Genossenschaften – Ein Gewinn für Alle   |   Chair: Andreas Wieg

Friday, March 23

8:45 - 10:15   Parallel Session IV a: Governing the reform of the energy sector   |   Chair: Lars Holstenkamp

• Role of multipliers in German energy cooperatives
  Richard Robert Volz
  

• Is electricity from a cooperative more worth? On the willingness to pay for electricity from cooperative enterprises
  Jakob Robert Müller; Jens Rommel; Julian Sagebiel
  

• Governance and financing of German energy cooperatives
  Jakob Robert Müller; Lars Holstenkamp
  

• Cooperation in infrastructure governance: overcoming coordination failures and conflicts in power provision for irrigation in Andhra Pradesh, India
  Christian Kimmich

8:45 - 10:15   Parallel Session IV  b: Cooperative Democracy: The formation of Social Capital   |   Chair: Jennifer Meyer-Ueding

• Members` organizations? The difficult proportion of Hyderabad’s co-operatives and RWAs to participative governance and the consequential waste of potentials
  Jennifer Meyer-Ueding
  

• Enhancing cooperatives with the ethics of social capital
  Patricia Illingworth
  

• Self Help Groups (SHGs) ontogenesis and urban poor access to service deliveries in municipal areas
  Saikumar C. Bharamappanavara

8:45 - 10:15   Parallel Session IV c: Studies in the foundations of cooperatives   |   Chair: Philipp Degens

• Social capital, firm size and the pattern of service outsourcing in Italy
  Matthias Bürker; Gaetano Alfredo Minerva
  

• Heterogeneous firms and corporate social responsibility: an analysis in times of crisis
  Marcella Mulino; Luisa Giallonardo
  

• Success factors of co-operative founding processes
  Philipp Degens; Johannes Blome-Drees
  

8:45 - 10:15   Parallel Session IV d: New developments in cooperative organization   |   Chair: Nicole Göler von Ravensburg

• Pupils‘ cooperatives and the acquisition of competences for sustainable development
  Nicole Göler von Ravensburg; Winfried Köppler; Felix Schulz-Stahlbaum
  

• The co-operative as a legal form for “liberal professions”? The example of lawyers in Austria
  Elisabeth Reiner
  

• Overcoming the open source dilemma - How cooperatives enhance the internet community to develop open source software for industry and commercial users?
  Andreas Wieg; Dirk Kalmring; Carsten Emde
  

• Reporting shared value on open source developments
  Jesus Garcia-Garcia; Mª Isabel Alonso de Magdaleno 
  

• Cooperatives as social integration instruments in the Basque country
  Itziar Villafañez Perez

8:45 - 10:15      Parallel Session IV e: Cooperative management of natural resources    |   Chair: N.N

• Effect of leasehold forestry in poverty alleviation in Hadikhola VDC, Nepal
  Kanchan Joshi
  

• Understanding policy-related collective action to address farming challenges of European water management
  Andreas Thiel; Laurence Amblard; Esther Blanco; Sergio Villamayor Tomas; Dimitrios Zikos
  

• An instituional analysis of water governance in the Qiyi irrigation district, North China
  Xiaoxi Wang; Ilona Otto-Banaszak
  

• Institutions and the R&D of GM-crops
  Valborg Kvakkestad

 

10:45 - 12:15   Parallel Session V a: Governing the cooperative   |   Chair: George Hendrikse

• Board structure variety in cooperatives
  George W. Hendrikse; Jerker Nilsson
  

• Ownership and control in agricultural cooperatives
  Fabio Chaddad; Constantine Iliopoulos
  

• Analyzing patterns of internal governance in cooperative organizations
  Jos Bijman; Markus Hanisch
  

• Adapting corporate governance schools of thought to the cooperative model
  Michael Cook
• What drives agribusiness co-ops performance over time? A longitudinal survey-based study
  Panagiota Sergaki; Theodoros Benos; Nikolaos Kalogeras

10:45 - 12:15   Parallel Session V b: Mastering demographic change   |   Chair: N.N.

• Living the age
  Axel Viehweger; Alexandra Brylok
  

• Crisis of globalization and rural multipurpose co-operatives in Japan
  Takeshi Murata
  

• Member value in cooperatives
  Peter Suter; Markus Gmuer
  

10:45 - 12:15   Parallel Session V c: Challenges in cooperative practice   |   Chair: N.N.

• The TAZ cooperative
  Konny Gellenbeck
  

• Oikocredit - Cooperative investment in people
  Karl Hildebrandt
  

• Executing the co-operative purpose via acquisition of an IOF: the Pohjola case
  Saila Rosas; Iiro Jussila; Pasi Tuominen
  

• Co-operative enterprise against finance investors
  Mathias Fiedler 
  

10:45 - 12:15   Parallel Session V d: Policies towards cooperative development   |   Chair: Florian Roßwog

• Cooperative response of cotton-growing farmers in Uzbekistan to national cotton policy burden and regional water scarcity
  Nodir Djanibekov; Utkur Djanibekov
  

• Rural credit cooperatives in India: responses to reforms
  Sharad N.; Girish Bansal Thakkar
  

• Opportunities and threats of the new regulation and supervision structure for savings and credit cooperatives in Mexico
  Florian Roßwog; José Manuel Bautista Serrano
  

• Brazilian cooperativism: cooperative act
  Rafael Carvalho Cunha

12:30 - 13:15    Plenary Session IV: Cooperatives responses to global challenges

• Results and outlook

requested: Carlo Borzaga, George Hendrikse, Hans-H. Münkner,  Marie-Hélène Collion, Markus Hanisch, Michael Cook, Eckhard Ott, 
 

13:15            Lunch

14:15            Side Events

• Verband Sächsischer Wohnungsgenossenschaften e.V.: meeting for the foundation of "Global Cooperatives"
  
• EU-Tender „Support for Farmer’s Cooperatives“: internal project workshop