Empowering Electricity: Co-operatives, Sustainability, and Power Sector Reform in Canada.

State Power and the Logic of Reform in China’s Electricity Sector

“Our [power] plant no longer needs imported equipment or skills. ...Recalling the past, [veteran machinery maintenance man] Lu said, ‘Under imperialist control, all important technical data was withheld from Chinese workers. ...Today all the technology is in our hands. And we run our plant ten times better than the imperialists!’” “Shanghai’s biggest power plant—then and now,” China Reconstruct...

The reform of electricity power sector in the PR of China

Deregulation was launched as a concept in the United States more than a decade ago; the European Union Commission has also formally announced that electric deregulation must be completed by the end of 2005. Deregulation or reform has already been a popular topic on the Electricity Power Sector. This paper will discuss the restructuring and regulatory reforms in the PR China’s power sector. It b...

Rethinking reform in the electricity sector: Power liberalisation or energy transformation?

Member Value in Co-operatives

Until today there is a research gap considering the question, what motivates a member to enter or leave a co-op, resp. what are the reasons to stay in a co-operative. The majority of studies about this topic mainly focus on economic factors and the rational behavior of the member. However, co-ops also have other purposes not associated with financial goals. The presented paper is proposing a ne...

Measuring Efficiency in Fruit and Vegetable Marketing Co-operatives with Heterogeneous Technologies in Canada