Board Structure Variety in Agricultural Cooperatives, Conference ‘Cooperative Responses to global Challenges’, Berlin, March 21-23, 2012.

 Coordination in Cooperatives versus Investor Owned Firms, Conference ‘Cooperative Responses to global Challenges’, Berlin, March 21-23, 2012.

 Governance of Cooperatives, Conference ‘Alberta’s New Age Agriculture: Managing Challenges and Opportunities’, Red Deer, Canada, May 2-3, 2012.

 Cognition and Governance Structure, Beijing University.

 Member Heterogeneity and Governance: Core and Common Members in Chinese Farmer Cooperatives, Conference ‘Cooperative Values in Internationalized Operations’, Helsinki, Finland, June 14‐16, 2012.

 Quality Provision and Governance Structure Variety: IOFs versus Cooperatives, Conference ‘Cooperative Values in Internationalized Operations’, Helsinki, Finland, June 14‐16, 2012.

2011

Cognition and Governance Structure, ISNIE, Stanford University, June 16-18.

Cooperatives in China, eRNAC Netherlands 2011, August 19, Rotterdam.

Board Structure Variety in Cooperatives, EAAE, University of Zurich, Sept 2011.

Economics and Managements of Networks, December 1-3, Limassol, Cyprus.

Board Structure Variety in Cooperatives, EMNET 2011, December 1-3, Limassol, Cyprus.

2010

Quality Provision and Governance Structure Variety: Pooling versus Double Markup, IAMO, Germany, Halle, June 2010.

Value Added and Governance Structure: Evidence from the Pear Industry in China’s Zhejiang Province, IAMO, Germany, Halle, june 2010.

Centralized versus Individual: Governance of Farmer Professional Cooperatives in China, IAMO, Germany, Halle, June 2010.

eRNAC session at ISNIE, Scotland, Sterling, June 2010.

Information Partition and the Theory of the Firm, EAAE III Workshop on valuation methods in agro-food and environmental economics, “Decisions and choices under uncertainty in Agro-food and Natural Resources Economics, Barcelona, July 2010.

Cognition and Governance Structure, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, October 2010.

Cooperatives as an Efficient Organizational Form, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, October 2010.

Research regarding Agricultural Cooperatives, Shanghai Jiaotong University, October 2010.

eRNAC Netherlands 2010, dec 3, Rotterdam.

2009

CEO Compensation in Cooperatives versus IOFs, Rural Cooperation in the 21st Century, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 2009.

Incompleteness of Chinese Fruit and Vegetable Contracts, International Society of New Institutional Economics, University of California at Berkeley, USA, 2009.

Value Added Efficiency and Governance Structure: Evidence from the Pear Industry in China’s Zhejiang Province, International Association Agricultural Economics, Bejing, 2009.

Cooperatives, WOTRO lecture, Rotterdam, 2009.

Contractual Incompleteness in Franchising, Economics and Management of NETworks 2009, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2009.

2008

Keynote address ‘Product Portfolio of Cooperatives: Governance and Evolution’ at the XVI-th International Conference on Cooperative Studies, Koln, Germany, 2008.

eRNAC Netherlands 2008 symposium ‘Cooperatives’ was held at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University on October 30. The programme consisted of the lectures

• ‘CEO Compensation in Cooperatives’ by Li Feng (RSM Erasmus University).
• ‘Impact of Fair Trade on Cooperative Organization’ by Ruerd Ruben (Radboud University)
• ‘Firms, Nonprofits, and Cooperatives: A Theory of Organizational Choice’ by Jens Prufer (Tilburg University).