IV International Workshop on Cooperative Finance | Registrations are now open

June 20-21 2013 | Trento REGISTRATIONS ARE NOW OPEN The Workshop, organized in collaboration with Federcasse (Italian federation of Cooperative Credit Banks) and with the support of EACB (European...
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Euricse’s contribution to the International Year of Cooperatives

This report summarizes the main findings of the conference ‘Promoting the Understanding of Cooperatives for a Better World’, which was co-organized by Euricse and the International Co-...
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The World Cooperative Monitor

The inaugural World Co-operative Monitor, ranking the largest co-operative and mutual enterprises by turnover and collecting data on all sizes of co-operatives across the globe in categories, was...
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Research

Euricse aims to support and conduct research activities that bridge the divide between current dominant theoretical models and the specific features characterizing cooperative and social ...
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Publications

WP 54|13 Disentangling the relationship between nonprofit and social c...

 We use a unique dataset to study how participation in two specific types of nonprofit organizations, i.e. social welfare associations and social cooperatives, affects individual social capital. A descriptive analysis shows that both the types of organization have a positive impact. The econome...

L’inserimento lavorativo avvantaggia solo i soggetti svantaggiati?

Un’analisi costi-benefici applicata ad alcune cooperative sociali aderenti al Consorzio Sociale Unitario G. Zorzetto di Venezia Il rapporto di ricerca aveva l’obiettivo di indagare la capacità delle cooperative sociali di inserimento lavorativo aderenti al Consorzio Sociale U...

WP 53|13 Worldwide regulation of co-operative societies – an Overview

 A short survey of such a vast subject matter cannot be complete. It remains a reasoned but arbitrary collection of ideas, data, facts and figures, biased by the personal experience of the author and his access to sources, inevitably leaving gaps. In the first part of the paper, the “co-o...

WP 52|13 Collective institutions towards habitability: roles, strategi...

 The goal of this paper is to apply the theory of commons to residential contexts and verify if and how collective institutions can be used to produce habitability, i.e. a set of particular socio-environmental conditions conducive to inhabiting a particular area. While most literature on the st...

Projects

Users’ cooperatives in public services: A comparative study

The main goal of this research project is to investigate users’ cooperatives in public service delivery in Italy, France, Germany, United Kingdom and Spain. In Italy in particular, the research focuses on users’ cooperatives supplying water, energy, waste, transp...

The World Cooperative Monitor

The inaugural World Co-operative Monitor, ranking the largest co-operative and mutual enterprises by turnover and collecting data on all sizes o...

The contribution of cooperative and social enterprises to socio-...

Cooperative and social enterprises are gaining an increasing relevance in transition countries as path-away out of social exclusion. These institutions can be regarded as a beneficial dynamic that can have a relevant impact upon the economic and social development both at national and local level, a...

Accounting in European cooperation

This research project aims at mapping the diversity and common patterns of social accounting practices across European cooperatives engaged in various sectors (cooperative banks, agricultural cooperatives, social enterprises). This research will also explore the degree of di...
Siti EuricseJEODThe Journal of Entrepreneurial and Organizational Diversity (JEOD) focuses on the subject of entrepreneurial diversity, encompassing therefore all enterprise types and models.
SCGSocial Capital Gateway (SCG) is a web site publishing materials for the study of social capital and related topics in a multidisciplinary perspective.