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A model of government–industry–academic collaboration: mandatory bankruptcy counselling policy in Canada
Author(s) -
McGREGOR SUE L.T.,
BERRY RUTH E.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
journal of consumer studies and home economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.775
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1470-6431
pISSN - 0309-3891
DOI - 10.1111/j.1470-6431.1997.tb00268.x
Subject(s) - bankruptcy , legislation , insolvency , government (linguistics) , blueprint , directive , public administration , politics , legislature , political science , business , law , engineering , philosophy , computer science , mechanical engineering , linguistics , programming language
This paper profiles the chronology of a productive and complex collaborative relationship between government, industry and academia (mainly home economists) that has existed since late 1992 around the policy issue of mandatory bankruptcy counselling in Canada. Changes to the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (BIA) in 1992 mandated counselling for bankrupts. A 1994 National Counselling Directive Working Group evaluated the impact of this legislation leading to the establishment of a 1995 Qualifications of Counsellors Task Force charged with developing a blueprint for use with the 1996 development and delivery of a course of study for insolvency counselling. Those completing the course will be the first roster of names in a national registry of qualified BIA counsellors in 1997. This paper attempts to capture the dynamics of managing and respecting the interconnections between stakeholders within the constraints of their political and economic realities.