This page lists reports and papers published by the former Australian Center for Cooperative Research and Development (ACCORD). These reports are finished pieces of substantial research, generally undertaken for a client. Papers are shorter and cover a variety of topics and purposes. All publications are available to download in PDF format.

Reports

• ACCORD Report No.1
  Building Sustainable Communities: Co-operative Solutions to Rural Renewal by Jo Barraket, published October 2001
  
  
• ACCORD Report No.2
  Laughing All the Way to the Credit Union - The CreditCare Experience in 'No Bank' Towns by Gary Lewis, published November 2001
  
  
• ACCORD Report No.3
  State of the Sector: New South Wales Co-operatives 1990-2000 by Jayo Wickremarachchi and Andrew Passey, published June 2003
  
  
• ACCORD Report No.4
  Community Development Finance Institutions: Evidence from Overseas and Australia by Kathryn Parker and Mark Lyons, published September 2003
  
  
• ACCORD Report No.5
  Linking Society and Economy Through Membership: Associations in New South Wales by Andrew Passey, published July 2004
  
  
• ACCORD Report No.6
  State of the Sector: New South Wales Co-operatives 2003 by Andrew Passey, published March 2005
  
  

Papers

• ACCORD Paper No. 1
  Cooperatives In Australia - A Background Paper by Mark Lyons, published June 2001
  
  
• ACCORD Paper No. 2
  Successful Co-operatives - The Valencia Experience by Gary Lewis, published August 2000
  
  
• ACCORD Paper No. 3
  Co-operatives in Rural Renewal: The case of Arranmore, Ireland by Gary Lewis, published August 2000
  
  
• ACCORD Paper No. 4
  Community & Economic Development: Towns Shaping Their Destiny by Jill Jordan, published June 2001
  
  
• ACCORD Paper No. 5
  The Missing Link: Mutual Forms of Organisation, Social Capital and Community Regeneration in Regional Australia by Mark Lyons and Meryl McQueen, published June 2001
  
  
• ACCORD Paper No. 6
  Agricultural Co-operatives - An Annotated Bibliography: Theoretical and Empirical Literature and Selected Overseas Case Studies by Branka Krivokapic-Skoko, published January 2002
  
  
• ACCORD Paper No. 7
  Implications for the use of a co-operative structure for business activity in NSW by Tracie Arkley-Smith CA, Ross King Accountants Pty Limited, published April 2002.
  
  
• ACCORD Paper No. 8
  The Concept and Classifications of Agricultural Co-operatives by Branka Krivokapic-Skoko, published November 2002.
  
  
• ACCORD Paper No. 9
  Examining the potential impact of water reforms on agricultural water users. by Kathryn Parker and Edward Oczkowski, published February 2003.



• ACCORD Paper No. 10
  New Co-operatives: Motivations and Barriers by Jayo Wickremarachchi, published June 2003.
  
  
• ACCORD Paper No. 11
  Ethnic Community Capital In Sydney by Walter Lalich, published September 2003.
  
  
• ACCORD Paper No. 12
  Government Initiatives to Develop The UK Social Economy by Andrew Passey and Mark Lyons, published August 2004.
  
  
• ACCORD Paper No. 13
  Nash Bargaining and Agricultural Co-operatives by Edward Oczkowski, published August 2004.
  
  

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