Cooperation in Italy - 1st Euricse Report

This research project stems from the realization that in Italy there is a dearth of official statistical information on the cooperative sector, in spite of the important role that this sector plays...

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Throughout all of 2012 Euricse and ICA will publish one story of cooperation per day on a dedicated website. These stories - in words, photos and videos - aim to demonstrate how widespread, lively,...

Appeal on the importance of cooperative banks for Europe's economic recovery and growth

  Carlo Borzaga, the president of Euricse, launched an appeal on behalf of the community of experts from the cooperative world yesterday in Venice, during the international conference on...

Processes of differentiation and innovation in social enterprises

This project, begun in mid-2010, investigates how innovation is articulated within social cooperatives, differentiating between product, process, sector and end user innovations. The...

Publications

WP 33|12 Stakeholder orientation and capital structure: Social enterprises...
In this paper, we investigate whether capital structure differs between for-profit and nonprofit sectors by focusing on two key aspects of the latter:...
WP 32|12 Dalle società di mutuo soccorso alla mutualità. Risposte alla crisi...
Le società di mutuo soccorso sono comparse in Europa tra il XIX e il XX secolo. Si tratta di una delle prime forme di solidarietà della...
WP 31|12 Credit cooperatives: challenges and opportunities in the new global...
The future scenario highlights a Western leadership challenged while the geo-economy seems to be moving back to a pre-Industrial Revolution setup. Aga...
WP 30|12 Valutazione della sostenibilità economica e finanziaria del sistema di...
La Provincia Autonoma di Trento ha da tempo avviato il processo di riordino delle Aziende Pubbliche di Servizi alla Persona (A.P.S.P.), con l’in...

Projects

International handbook of cooperative law (Book)
The degree of development reached by cooperatives of different sectors throughout the world, which among others led to the UN decl...
Accounting in European cooperation
This research project aims at mapping the diversity and common patterns of social accounting practices across European cooper...
Politics and actions for work integration. An analysis of the role...
The project unfolds in two different parts: + the first aims at analysing the means by which B-type cooperatives integrate production,...
Does social economy promote inclusion? Evidence from empirical...
Microfinance and Fair Trade practices are becoming important vehicles to bring the market closer to marginalized households. Such proje...

News/Events

Third Euricse Conference on Cooperative Finance and Sustainable Develo...
June 14th and 15th, 2012 - Trento Registrations are now open for the Third Euricse Conference on Cooperative Finance and Sustainable De...
The contribution of cooperatives to the sustainable development
8-9 Novembre, 2012, Bolzano (Italy) L’Istituto per lo Sviluppo regionale e il Management del Territorio dell’Accademia Euro...
Cooperative and social enterprises in Europe and in transitional conte...
June 22 |23, 2012 Faculty of Philosophy | Cika Ljubina, 18-20, room 101 Belgrade | Serbia This event is aimed at creating a lively disc...
Social economics and evolutionary learning
Thursday May 31st, 2012 at 3 P.M. Sala Seminari Euricse (Via San Giovanni, 36) Zohreh Emami, professor of Economics at Alverno College...