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Collaborative Research (continued)
Skidmore students and their professors have worked together
on numerous research projects. This kind of high-level scholarship
does more than enhances a student's understanding in a given
disipline; the practical, hands-on experience and "real-world"
accomplishment also instill a sense of confidence that will
benefit a graduate in any career. Projects from recent years
appear below, arranged by academic area.
Project: The Evolution and
Future Prospects of Dairy Cooperatives in New York State: Case
Studies of the Dairylea and Agri-Mark Cooperatives Participants: Associate Professor James J. Kennelly and Anatoly
Ostrovsky '03 Plan: The development, evolution, and future prospects
of dairy cooperatives in New York State will be examined. Specifically,
research will focus upon preparing extended case studies of
the Dairylea and Agri-Mark cooperatives, the largest and oldest
dairy cooperatives in the area. It is hoped that a result of
this study will be to develop an understanding of the role that
cooperative organizations may continue to play in the preservation
of family-owned farms and the survival of rural communities.
The question "Do cooperatives still represent economically viable
organizational structures?" needs to be answered first.
Project: A Sense of Place: Business Enterprises and Their
Rootedness in Community Participants: Associate Professor James J. Kennelly and Yang Wang
'99 Plan: We seek to develop a grounded theory of the factors
that contribute to the "rooting" or "anchoring" of firms in
local communities, in geographical places. Mainstream business
strategy theories suggest that firms, as profit maximizers,
should be flexible, mobile, and in a sense "stateless" or "rootless."
This project is intended to explore the opposite phenomenon,
to discern the factors that argue against such an orientation
and cause certain firms to entrench themselves in a local community.
In other words, what is the "glue" that binds a firm to a community?
In most cases, the connection is Velcro; the researchers wish
to examine the cases where there has been a real "bonding."
Creative Thought Matters.
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