July 31, 2010 :: 8:19 AM
Scope of the Congress
Public, social and cooperative economy enterprises need to reconcile their specific values and missions with those required for efficient, profitable management. The meeting of one and the other logic is a factor for innovation, as is the diversity of economic agents and of their objectives.
Papers for the 27th Congress will address the specific sphere in which public, social and cooperative enterprises respond to the challenges that arise through innovation strategies and the management of change. The challenges are many: an increasingly competitive environment, pressures to water down and homogenise corporate management and governance models, new needs that require responses, technological mutations, the necessity of taking sustainable development into account, etc. The answers of public, social and cooperative enterprises to all these challenges entail determined participation in the knowledge economy and in the application of innovation measures: innovation in products, in markets, in processes, social innovation, organisational innovation, etc.
The contributions of public, social and cooperative enterprises to the different aspects of innovation and their implications in the field of management will be the subject of the different sessions of this Congress.
