MDRGN Inaugural Message

[RaceM <race@netspace.net.au>]

Dear Colleagues

Thank you for agreeing to participate in COG's new International 
Mondragon Studies Association working group. As you will note, the 
name of the group begs a question, in that as yet there is no 
Association, but simply a conviction on my part that one is required. 
It is my hope that the group will have the effect of drawing together 
a sufficient number of people with an interest in Mondragon for 
critical mass to be achieved and an organisation to be formalised.

Meanwhile, at the invitation of the people at the Kent State 
University Capital Ownership Association, I have posted as a possible 
basis for discussion the draft of a paper about Mondragon which I am 
to deliver at their conference in Washington in October. COG's idea 
is that the draft should remain available for scrutiny, comment, 
queries and suggestion until - say - the end of July, when a revised 
version would be prepared. Needless to say, it is not intended that 
this process should in any way limit discussion. Other group members 
may have completely unrelated lines of thought about Mondragon which 
they wish to pursue, and should feel free to do so.

Meanwhile, I should add by way of apology that the draft paper in the 
form in which it currently appears on the site has lost much of its 
formatting in transmission - as will be seen from the differing type 
sizes and lack of indentation - and COG expects to upload an rtf 
version which I have now sent them shortly.

COG has also agreed to have a  Spanish version of the draft paper 
posted shortly, although, given that my only language is English, 
discussion will need to be in English, at least until an 
appropriately multi-lingual replacement for me as moderator can be 
obtained.

Thanks again, and all good wishes, Race Mathews.
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Dr Race Mathews,
Senior Research Fellow,
Government and Governance Unit,
Faculty of Business and Economics
Monash University.

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