ACCORD publishes reports and papers. Reports are finished pieces of substantial research, generally undertaken for a client. Papers are shorter and cover a variety of topics and purposes. You can download a PDF version of our reports and papers below. ACCORD also publishes paper by their associates.

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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.
  
  

Other related publications

Mark Lyons Third Sector. The Contribution of Nonprofit and Cooperative Enterprises in Australia, Allen and Unwin, Crows Nest, 2001
The first overview of Australia's social economy. It describes how this vital part of our social and economic systems developed, the contributions they make today and the challenges they face.

Mark Lyons and Susan Hocking, Dimensions of Australia's Third Sector, Centre for Australian Community Organisations and Management, UTS, Lindfield, 2000.
This technical publication reports the first attempt to map and estimate the dimensions of Australia's third sector or social economy. The data reported was generated by the Australian Nonprofit Data Project, a collaborative project between UTS and the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Provides a great deal of data, including expenditure, income (including sources) and employment by industry group and describes the many ways the data were derived.

Karine Shellshear, Creating ‘social capital’ through culturally sensitive housing co-operatives, ACCORD, 2001
Karine Shellshear explores how co-operative housing might contribute to cultural integration and the development of social capital in her engaging case study of the Sydney based Tongan Housing Co-operative, "Hope, Faith and Love."
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