This Working Paper analyses the universe of Italian social cooperatives, providing both confirmation and evidence of evolutions that are still little studied. After thirty years of growth, there has been a decrease in the number of social cooperatives, mainly due to a drop in new formations, while the number of non-cooperative social enterprises has increased. Overall turnover and employment continue to grow; however, a disaggregated analysis reveals that a relatively small number of cooperatives generate most of the economic value. Profitability appears very limited and, again, the positive aggregate figure is attributable to the performance of a residual share of cooperatives. Unexpectedly, an inverse relationship between profitability and enterprise size emerges. Finally, there is the remarkable growth of cooperatives with multiple objects (A+B), which ten years ago were largely in the minority and now represent 40% of newly established cooperatives.<\/p>\n
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Il paper esplora l\u2019evoluzione delle cooperative sociali italiane, evidenziando il calo delle nuove costituzioni, la crescita delle imprese sociali non cooperative e delle cooperative ad oggetto plurimo, e la concentrazione di redditivit\u00e0 in poche realt\u00e0 maggiori.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":25167,"parent":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[1355],"class_list":["post-25868","publications","type-publications","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cooperative-sociali-2","publications-cat-working-papers","publications-area-local-development-en","organizational_types-social-cooperatives"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n