Membership Category
- Regular
Institution
- HEC Montréal
Discipline(s)
- Management
Expertises
- Management of collective enterprises
- Resources approach
- Cooperatives
- Strategic management
- Cooperative financial institutions
- Social and organizational innovation
Biography
Martine Vézina (PhD ESSEC, France) is Associate Professor (Management) at HEC Montréal. Her research interests focus on the strategic management of social and collective enterprises (cooperatives, NPOs and mutuals) and management in a context of social innovation. She is particularly interested in the development strategies of large financial and agri-food cooperatives. She is a member and co-leader of the Social and Collective Organizations (OSC) research axis of the CRISES (Centre de recherche sur les innovations sociales) research group. She sits on the boards of TIESS (Territoires innovants en économie sociale et solidaire, liaison and transfer organization) and CIRIEC Canada (Centre de recherche et d'information sur les entreprises collectives, d'économie sociale et publiques). She has served on the boards of several cooperative and social economy organizations. She is currently President of Dynamo, a community mobilization organization. She is a visiting professor at Sc Po Grenoble (France).
Affiliated research axes
Change and Transition Management
Planning Optimization
Resource and Product Maximization
Policy levers
Projects funded by the RRECQ
Democratic and participatory governance models in social economy and sustainability in circular economy
Description
The project aims to identify and acknowledge the democratic and participatory governance models and mechanisms of social economy enterprises (SEEs) that are conducive to sustainability in a circular economy.
Very few empirical studies have focused on the contributions, conditions and modalities of democratic, participatory and inclusive governance as a lever for the implementation of circular systems. Yet, the research conducted over the past few years by Territoires innnovants en économie sociale et solidaire (TIESS) on circular business models in a social economy has increasingly emphasized the need to better understand the democratic and participatory governance models that are at work.
The project is part of an initiative led by TIESS for the past five years and aims to position and deploy the social economy as a partner in a sustainable circular economy. The four team members are also contributing to an international research network on the social economy and circular economy that is currently under development at the initiative of two of the team’s researchers.
Themes
- Action research
- Governance
- Participatory research
- Social and solidarity economy
