Johann Brazda

Johann Brazda (born July 15, 1954 in Vienna ) is an Austrian social scientist with a research focus on cooperatives .

life and work

Brazda studied economics at the University of Vienna , worked there since 1980 as a university assistant and obtained his doctorate in 1987. rer. soc. oec. Until 1998 he worked as a university assistant at the Research Institute for Cooperatives at the University of Vienna. In June 1998 he received his habilitation for the subject of business administration in the cooperatives and since October 1998 he has been an associate professor. Brazda is the head of the Cooperative Studies department of the Institute for Business Administration of the Faculty of Economics at the University of Vienna, Managing Director of the Research Association for Cooperatives and co-editor of the “Journal for the entire Cooperative Society”. He published, mostly in cooperation with other researchers, extensive works on general questions of the cooperative system, the history of associations and the cooperatives in Central and Eastern Europe. In 2012, Brazda organized the XVII together with Dietmar Rößl . International conference on cooperative science on the subject of cooperatives in the focus of a new economic policy . In the summer of 2014, the commemorative publication Cooperative Science Between Theory and History, dedicated to Johann Brazda on his 60th birthday (eds. Juhani Laurikari, Robert Schediwy and Tode Todev) was published with contributions by more than 50 authors.

Web links

• Literature by and about Johann Brazda in the catalog of the German National Library
• Johann Brazda (University of Vienna)
• A Time of Crises - Electronic version of the large consumer cooperative project of the 1980s, Eds. Johann Brazda and Robert Schediwy (PDF; 3.0 MB)
• Web presence of xvii.IGT