Governance and movement-building for the social economy in Canada

Comparative analysis of the state of governance of the SE within Canada supports the contention that unifying and coherent models of cooperation and development are important to both the strength of component actors or sub sectors of the SE (e.g. [...] This paper provides a brief overview of some of this discourse and research evidence, examines some of the most researched models within Canada, and suggests a continuum in the state of management and governance of the SE across regions and at the national level. [...] While development and governance structures and models have not been an explicit focus of most of this research, discourse by actors in the SE in the course of events associated with the research, and aspects of research papers, have dealt with this subject, may 2010 / mai 2010 . governance and movement-Building for the Social economy in canada particularly in the context of organizing to strengt [...] Adeler (2009), in a comparative study of cooperative development in several countries done for the Prairies/Northern Ontario CSERP node concluded that “the level of development that the sector achieves is directly correlated to the nature of the supportive environment, the strength of the sector infrastructure, and government commitment toward enabling the development of this environment and infra [...] At the supranational level networks of SE organizations and practitioners have also been formed to promote a global vision and agenda that build on continental and national networks including the Intercontinental Network for the Promotion of the Social Solidarity Economy (RIPESS) and the Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and Solidarity Economy (ALOE).