WP 110 | 20 Finance, property rights and productivity in Italian cooperatives

This paper addresses the real effects of collective capital on productivity using a large panel of Italian worker and social cooperatives. Read More

WP 109 | 19 The institutions of livelihood and social enterprise system

This paper considers resource coordination in production systems featuring the presence of enterprises and organizations pursuing social, health-related, educational, cultural, and environmental aims, or social enterprises (SEs). Read More

WP 108 | 19 Cooperation as a tool for the emancipation of the working classes in the thought of 19th century English economists

This paper seeks to synthesize the thought of three great economists, David Ricardo, John Stuart Mill, and Alfred Marshall, and then put forward a hypothesis as to why the interest in cooperation suffered such a rapid decline, and why even today it still struggles to present itself in its original form, that is, as a means of emancipation for the working classes, a relevant issue in the society of inequality. Read More

WP 107 | 19 Conflict between communities, citizen ownership and the production of public goods

The paper investigates the conditions under which consumer ownership should be preferred to investor ownership in economies with externalities. Read More

WP 106 | 19 The potential of the Trust as the institutional vehicle of choice for empowering the Third Sector in the recovery and enhancement of cultural heritage

This research aims to fill the gap in the literature between the public governance perspective applied to cultural heritage management and the current recorded macro-trends. Read More

WP 105 | 18 Urban regeneration and social innovation: The case of Gillet Square, a community-driven urban culture project

This article focuses its attention on the inner cities and asks questions on their possible redevelopment. In particular, the question concerns the social innovation of these projects. Read More

WP 104 | 18 Advancing statistics on cooperatives: Reflections on six country case studies

This paper summarizes the main results of the project “Terms of References for National Practices in Developing Statistics on Cooperatives” that is part of the series of initiatives undertaken by the ILO to better understand how data on cooperatives are collected and realised across the world. Read More

WP 103 | 18 Cooperatives and Taxation: How many Benefits do they really have? The Italian Case

The present contribution, through a precise analysis of the financial statements of cooperatives and shareholder corporations, will try to empirically verify these assumptions. In particular, it will take into account not only the taxes paid on corporate income, but also the taxation on employee income. Read More

WP 102 | 18 Agricultural cooperation and marginal areas: A reflection on the experience of the Province of Trento

This article, based on the experience of agricultural co-ops in the Province of Trento (Italy), will try to highlight the importance of this organizational model in favoring an adequate development of disadvantageous territories, such as mountain areas. Read More

WP 101 | 18 Public assets concession contracts between local authorities and third sector organisations

The paper analyses the issue of concessions of public property by local authorities to third sector organisations, taking into account sources of positive law and jurisprudence at national and European level. Read More

WP 100 | 18 Non-profits and the Profit Non-distribution Constraint with Selfish Entrepreneurial Motivations

In this paper we investigate the social value of the NDC in mutual non-profits where customers exert control over the firm. The main theme here is the exploitation of some customers by others, rather than the exploitation of donors by managers or owners. Read More

WP 99 | 17 Democratic Governance Mechanisms in Cooperative Banks: A Reassessment

This paper considers the fact that it is not always clear whether cooperative banks’ members have the proper incentives to actively participate in making decisions that relate to bank strategies and policies. Read More