This study explores the dimensions of the social economy in Italy in terms of organizations, employment and revenues, taking into account the market/non-market orientation of organizations. Read More
This article aims to provide a political, economic and social overview of the emergence and establishment of ERTs in Argentina over the past two decades. In addition, the legal and institutional preconditions that significantly encourage, limit and determine the scope of worker cooperatives will be analyzed. Read More
Starting with the mission of foundations of banking origin (FOBs), the result of the privatizations of Italy's public banks that began in 1990, this paper assesses the quality of the work of these entities, applying a model of analysis that considers their philanthropic activities, investment activities of resources derived from the total or partial divestment of holdings in former public banks (transferee banks), governance and transparency. Read More
This paper highlights the first phase of a research program, completed in late 2014 and early 2015, that homes in on worker-recuperated enterprises (imprese recuperate dai lavoratori) in Italy. The paper specifically focuses on Italy’s worker buyouts (WBOs) facilitated by its Legge Marcora (Marcora Law) framework—the form of worker-recuperated enterprises predominating in Italy. Read More
In this work we discuss the core elements of the community cooperatives concept (community goods, land and citizenship) with references to concrete cases. We then examine how new community cooperatives differ from historical ones. The paper concludes with a brief discussion of their future prospects. Read More
This paper proposes an analysis the literature on the shift from stakeholder to shareholder finance behind the Great Financial Crisis (GFC). Traditional banks generally maximized stakeholder value (STV). But before the GFC also many of them started maximizing shareholder value (SHV). Read More
This contribution aims to enrich the scarce theoretical reflections on multi-stakeholdership in a context where they are already well established, namely that of social and personal services. Read More
This paper analyzes the situation of social enterprises in Ireland. The first part provides an updated representation of the Irish social enterprise sector, while the second part presents Camara Education as a specific case of a successful Irish social enterprise. Read More
El objetivo del estudio fue comprender la dinámica organizativa y el potencial de las organizaciones de base de recolección de residuos en el área metropolitana de Santiago de Chile para pasar de una situación de informalidad, asociada a la idea de economía popular, a la capacidad de incorporarse como organizaciones más estructuradas en el contexto de la economía social y solidaria. Read More
Mancur Olson and Robert Putnam provide two contrasting views on the effect of involvement in voluntary associations on their members. This paper aims to examine the different models by involving a sample of members of different types of associations, from different age groups and educational levels, and a demographically comparable sample of non-members. Read More
The cooperative movement underwent in 2012 a renewed impulse with the declaration of the “International Year of Cooperatives”. In this paper we present the results of the interviews conducted with international experts of the sector, who belong to national organizations following the Delphi methodology. Read More
In the first part of the paper we study the pricing policies of a customer-owned firm in the absence of external regulation. The main result is that the effect of self-regulation generally ensures the dominance of customer ownership over investor ownership in terms of welfare, although in neither rule is sufficient to achieve first-best in equilibrium. Read More