After showing remarkable resilience to the negative effects of the 2007-2009 global financial crisis, cooperative banks have undergone a process of structural reform and consolidation almost everywhere in Europe over the past decade. Recognizing these changes, the paper provides an account of the main concepts and trends in research that has focused on cooperative banks since 2010. Read More
The paper explores the role of the Third Sector in social and health integration and highlights virtuous experiences in several Italian regions where these entities have played a driving role. Read More
The paper explores the coordination mechanism for cultural production, focusing on Trentino's innovative approach of shared administration and cultural policy. Read More
The aim of the paper is to address the possible implications of the principle of “shared administration” for the emergence of new forms of empowerment of social actors able to promote distributed models of self-determination and democratic exercise of power as an alternative to top- down bureaucracy. Read More
This paper – which largely summarizes the Euricse-Istat report on the Italian social economy (2021) – aims to provide a unitary picture of the dimensions and characteristics of the entire social economy in Italy and to explore its sectoral specialization and evolutionary dynamics, showing, finally, some insights into the relationship between the presence of SEOs and variables of social interest, especially with particular reference to welfare services. Read More
This paper aims to explore the salient features of the social economy in Trentino through data from Istat's Permanent Census of Nonprofit Institutions. Read More
The working paper presents findings from research on cultural volunteering and specifically analyzes the nature of bands and their role within the Trentino community. Read More
This paper is part of the literature that recognizes the crucial role of ethical evaluation in the financial sector and investigates the social and environmental impact aspects of economic activities. Read More
Lack of credit for farming is one of the main obstacles that poor Thai farmers face. Most agricultural credits from commercial banks are given to large agricultural businesses thus leaving out poor farmers who consequently have to borrow from informal sources with high interest rates. Read More
This paper brings together the first results of research aimed at studying the start-up and enterprise processes of worker-recovered enterprises in Italy. The results, obtained through the administration of an online questionnaire, delve into the governance, resources and strategies used by workers in recovering/starting their own cooperative enterprise in Italy. Read More
Starting from a reconstruction of the main limits of the current local welfare systems, the paper examines in depth the elements underlying a different model of territorial healthcare, based on the integration between social and healthcare fields and on the participation of territorial communities in the definition of policies and services. Read More
The Mondragon Corporation is an umbrella organisation for nearly 100 separate self-governing worker cooperatives that together employ over 81,000 workers (2019). Being mainly located in the Spanish Basque region, the group’s cooperatives operate throughout the world, with 141 production plants in 37 countries, commercial businesses in 53, and sales in… Read More