Anecdotal evidence describes how co-operatives are facing a financial crunch, particularly since the economic crash of 2008. This paper aims to analyse the composition of the capital of co-operatives. Read More
The paper addresses the issue of home care support for the frail elderly whose needs are not adequately addressed in formal provision and often not even within the family. Read More
The creation of cooperative forms of organisations and a proper structuring of them is required for achieving this objective of reaching out to the local community. This paper is an attempt to analyse the structure and functioning of credit cooperatives in India and to assess to what extent the same is conducive for connecting the local societies. Read More
The paper analyzes how cultural heritage and, more specifically, historical-archaeological heritage can be a powerful driver of local development. Read More
The purpose of this article is to investigate the role of different forms of enterprise in the Trentino economic system, and then to provide a comparative assessment, first with the neighboring province of Bolzano and, later, with the entire Italian economy. Read More
In the essay, after identifying the reasons explaining the growth of the third sector, its economic dimension is reconstructed and whether and to what extent the reform has captured its specificities and succeeded in laying the groundwork for its further strengthening is analyzed. Read More
This paper supports the thesis of inadequacy of the homo oeconomicus model, providing results of a field experiment conducted in the city of Naples (Italy) on the practice of “suspended coffee” (caffè sospeso). Read More
This paper addresses the real effects of collective capital on productivity using a large panel of Italian worker and social cooperatives. Read More
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
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
The paper investigates the conditions under which consumer ownership should be preferred to investor ownership in economies with externalities. Read More
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