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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Mondragon: Re: BILBAO MONDRAGON 2002
Title: Re: BILBAO MONDRAGON 2002 Dear Race, As you know, we are organising the 4th European Meeting of Employee Share Ownership. This year it will be held in Spain, in Bilbao and Mondragon, focusing on two points: - the followings of the ENRON affair; - EO in Spain = mainly Mondragon and SALs. You will find the provisional announcement of the meeting attached to this message. Friday the 22d is entirely dedicated to the discussion on Mondragon, and visiting the place. We think that your COG Mondragon Group could make a very useful contribution and we would like it to be actively involved and closely associated to the event. What do you think? I'm looking forward to your reply. With best regards Marc Mathieu Marc Mathieu Attachment converted: Macintosh HD:BILBAO MONDRAGON 2002 EN 1.doc (WDBN/MSWD) (0003AFB5) Dear Marc Mathieu
Thank you for your message. Needless to say, I wish your Bilbao
conference every success, but unfortunately it is premature at this
stage to refer to the Mondragon page within the COG web site as in any
sense constituting a group, or being in a position to take up your
kind invitation to be actively involved in the organisation and
proceedings of the conference.
The present position is that COG created the Mondragon page in
part in response to a call for the establishment of an International
Mondragon Studies Association that I included in my 1999 book 'Jobs of
Our Own; Building a Stakeholder Society' and have repeated at every
subsequent opportunity, including at conferences last year in
Mondragon and at Kent State. COG further invited me to make available
a draft paper about Mondragon for the page (now available in English
and Spanish in the COG library) and moderate discussion of it there,
leading up to the preparation of a revised version for presentation at
a COG conference in Washington in October.
It was COG's hope - and mine - that these measures would have the
effect of bringing in touch with one another people from a wide range
of disciplines and backgrounds who are interested in Mondragon,
including Mondragon co-operative members, and thereby give rise to the
establishment of the Association. However,to date only very limited
interest in the overall project has been evident, and, while I remain
passionately convinced of the need for the Association, whether it
will prove to be feasible remains to be seen.
Thanks again for your message, and again every good wish for the
success of your conference and the European Federation of Employee
Ownership, Race
Mathews.
-- Dr Race Mathews, Senior Research Fellow, Government and Governance Unit, Faculty of Business and Economics Monash University. Postal Address: 123 Alexandra Avenue, South Yarra, Vic, 3141, Australia. Phone/Fax: (03) 9826 0104.
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