The objective of this working paper is to provide a political-economic and sociological overview of the emergence and establishment of ERTs in Argentina over the past two decades. Read More
This research, conducted using the traditional method of financial statement indices, concerns the economic and financial performance achieved in the years 2009-2011 by 30 worker cooperatives in the service sector. The cooperatives investigated are medium-sized (turnover 30-50 million euros) and large (turnover over 50 million euros). The results obtained support the thesis that cooperatives exhibit strong resilience in the face of the economic crisis. Read More
Is it possible to get disadvantaged people back to work? And does it make sense to do so today, in the years of job insecurity, when the phenomenon of unemployment and exclusion from the labor market is affecting increasingly large groups of individuals? These questions were attempted to be answered by a recent research paper published in the volume "Efficient Inclusion: the Experience of Social Cooperatives for Job Placement". Read More
The paper aims to take an in-depth look at the "Network Contract," an innovative form of business aggregation recently introduced by the legislature, through the results of a qualitative survey conducted on a sample of about 300 companies involved in 159 network contracts. Read More
This paper contributes to the literature by carrying out the first empirical investigation into the role of different types of enterprises in the creation of social trust. Drawing on a unique dataset collected through the administration of a questionnaire to a representative sample of the population of the Italian Province of Trento in March 2011, we find that cooperatives are the only type of enterprise where the work environment fosters the social trust of workers. Read More
This article presents the main findings of an exploratory study of the social enterprise sector in Switzerland, funded by the National Science Research Fund, focusing on the purpose of job placement of vulnerable people. Read More
The crisis in global markets has severely affected the labor market, on the one hand, making it even more difficult for disadvantaged people to find new jobs and, on the other, creating new conditions of social fragility and thus new labor needs. While social cooperatives are a concrete way to respond to these emergencies, they often find themselves having to self-sustain in a highly competitive market with narrow profitability margins and restrictive spending policies. Read More
This paper assesses the model employed by argan oil cooperatives in southwest Morocco. Female-based cooperatives have been supported by donor organizations and development practitioners to promote environmental conservation of argan forests, foster social equity in the patriarchal society, and improve the local economy. Read More
The social cooperative is a passionate enterprise, a business with soul, but above all a form of organization that has stood the test of time and accumulated useful knowledge and experience to face even the uncertain future of our country and its welfare. This book discusses social cooperatives, 20 years after the founding law No. 381/91. Read More
Euricse participated in the "Progetto Donne Lavoro" initiative launched by the magazine Donna Moderna and the Vodafone Italia Foundation. The competition notice had the aim of rewarding female social enterprise by offering an opportunity for social emancipation and promotion through work. Euricse, in addition to offering technical consultancy on the topic of social enterprise, was also one of the members of the scientific evaluation committee. Read More
The aim of this research conducted by Euricse is to investigate the economic significance of the Italian cooperative system by analyzing its quantitative dimensions, recent evolution, and comparing theory with the reality of cooperative enterprises. Read More
The objective of the report is to examine the relationship between workers' intrinsic motivations and wage differentials within the nonprofit cooperative sector, comparing the static compensating wage differential hypothesis with a dynamic hypothesis that considers productivity as a determining factor in wages. Read More