The paper explores the growing recognition of the centrality of the social economy, highlighting the need to analyze its specificities, including legal forms, regulation, governance and supportive policies, in order to address crucial challenges such as social cohesion, ecological transition and the creation of decent jobs, while also emphasizing its potential contribution to civic participation. Read More
This volume aims to investigate the perception of the cooperative world through a timely analysis carried out by Euricse has collected some of the most relevant research findings produced in recent times. 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
This book arises from a three-year comparative research program concerning co-operative enterprises in Australia and Italy. The book explores the historical development, legal framework and the peak organisations of co-operatives in the two countries. Specific comparative chapters focus on consumer, credit, and worker-producer co-operatives. Read More
This paper aims to outline a neo-institutionalist framework for analyzing the accumulation and governance of common capital resources within organizational boundaries. Read More
This paper aims to investigate one of the first, if not the first, social enterprises in Europe, the Italian social cooperative. It begins with an analysis of the economic and social context of the 1970s that gave rise to this form of cooperative. This is followed by a statistical analysis, starting with the first survey conducted to monitor the phenomenon and concluding with the most recent statistical data. Read More
The objective of this report is to analyze the evolution of Cooperative Credit Banks (BCCs) up to 2014 and in subsequent years, considering the challenges and opportunities in the Italian banking environment, particularly in relation to governance, transparency, and crisis management. Read More
The report analyzes changes in cooperative credit during the economic crisis of 2008-2014, focusing on regional differences and the role of area banks. It examines strategies to mitigate disadvantages, as well as spatial and temporal dynamics of the impact of the crisis on credit and customer relations, comparing Italian macroregions. Read More
This report analyzes the impacts of the economic crisis on bank-business relationships in Italy from 2008 to 2014. It focuses on the change in credit, the consequences of the reduction in business financing, and the deterioration in the quality of bank loans. 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 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
The report aims to thoroughly analyze the dynamics of consumer cooperatives in the province of Trento to understand the role of cooperatives in meeting the needs of members and contributing to community well-being. Read More