COMMUNITY BUSINESS SUCCESSION: A ROLE FOR CO-OPERATIVES / LA SUCCESSION DANS LES ENTREPRISES COMMUNAUTAIRES : UN RÔLE POUR LES COOPÉRATIVES
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Abstract
This panel session at the 2012 Co-operating to Build a Better Nova Scotia Conference in Halifax explored community business succession. Research shows that many “baby-boomer” business owners will be looking for succession options for their enterprises as they retire over the next 10 years. This is an exciting opportunity for co-operative conversions of existing conventional enterprises. The session will provide an overview of the opportunity, outline the typical succession steps and identify the key requirement of the various stakeholders. Three examples of successful succession/conversions will be presented. The presenters are actively involved with these co-operative conversions. They will focus upon: 1. What was the impulse or source of the idea to form the co-op? 2. What were some of the key challenges faced and how were they overcome? 3. How was the co-op financed, include members’ investments and external financing? 4.What are the co-op’s key successes or accomplishments since starting? Join this session to see how your business could be converted and how succession can be used to expand the co-operative sector. The slides are available in both English and French with the exception of Debbie Raine's, which is only available in English. The YouTube URI leads to an audio recording of all four presentations. Presentation 1 - Cheticamp co-op purchases local funeral home Presentation 2 - Conversion of Acadia cinema into co-op Presentation 3 - Purchase of Careforce home care by the employees Presentation 4- Co-operative conversions and successions for retiring business owners D’apres les recherches, bon nombre de proprietaires d’entreprise de la generation du « baby-boom » vont explorer leurs options pour la succession a l’occasion de leur depart a la retraite au cours des 10 prochaines annees. Il s’agit la d’une occasion palpitante de convertir des entreprises existantes en cooperatives. La session fournira une vue d’ensemble des possibilites, decrira la marche a suivre typique pour la succession et mettra en evidence les principales exigences pour les diverses parties interessees. Les animateurs participent activement a des conversions de ce type. Ils se concentreront sur les aspects suivants : 1. Quelle a ete l’impulsion ou la source de l’idee de former une cooperative? 2. A quelles principales difficultes a-t-on ete confronte et qu’a-t-on fait pour les surmonter? 3. Comment a-t-on finance la cooperative (investissements des membres, sources exterieures, etc.)? 4. Quelles sont les principales reussites ou realisations de la cooperative depuis son lancement? Joignez-vous a la discussion pour en apprendre davantage sur la conversion eventuelle de votre entreprise et sur l’utilisation de la succession pour elargir le secteur des cooperatives. 1er presentation - La Cooperative de Cheticamp et l'achat du salon funeraire de la region 2ieme presentation - Conversion du cinema Acadia en cooperative 3ieme presentation - L'achat du Careforce Home Care par les employees 4ieme presentation - les conversions en cooperative pour les proprietaires d'entreprises partant en la retraite
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.021 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.013 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.008 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.025 | 0.003 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".