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Trento International Research Colloquium on Cooperatives

On 30 and 31 May 2025 EURICSE, in collaboration with the International Cooperative Alliance Global Committee on Cooperative Research (ICA CCR), the EMES International Research Network, CIRIEC International and the University of Trento organised a Research Colloquium to celebrate 2025, the United Nations International Year of Cooperatives. The Colloquium benefited… Read More

Generative AI Carries Non-Democratic Biases and Stereotypes: Representation of Women, Black Individuals, Age Groups, and People with Disability in AI-Generated Images across Occupations

In this study, I investigate how generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems reproduce and reinforce societal biases, with a specific focus on the representation of women, Black individuals, age groups, and people with visible disabilities in AI-generated occupational images. I analyzed 444 images generated by Microsoft Designer, Meta AI, and Ideogram… Read More

Refocusing on Territory: A Strategic Weapon Against Isomorphism for Banking Cooperatives

This study aims to understand how a banking cooperative developing in a globalized industry achieves territorial strategic positioning in the context of growth through an extraterritorial merger. Theoretically, this study challenges the seemingly accepted assertion that a cooperative drifts into a sectoral competitive logic in its growth, which is contrary… Read More

An Exploratory Study on the Effects of Social Entrepreneurship and Collaborative Network Orientation on the Performance of Social Economy Organizations

Social economy organizations, which thrive on cooperation and solidarity, use social entrepreneurship and collaborative networks to achieve social goals and ensure sustainability. This study examines how the social entrepreneurship and collaborative network orientation (CNO) of top management teams in social economy organizations influence organizational performance. CNO encompasses a preference for… Read More

Co-operative Care: The Case for Worker Co-operative Elder Care in Ireland

Ireland’s population age profile is forecasted to increase over the coming decades which will have implications for the care responsibilities of families and the state. However, there is a paucity of quality elder care in Ireland. Elder care worker co-operatives could contribute to meeting this shortfall in supply. This study… Read More

Green Human Resource Management and Its Implications on Organizational Performance: A Systematic Literature Review and Recommendations for Future Research

Emerging literature highlights the influence of green human resource management (GHRM) on organizational performance (OP). However, a comprehensive exploration of both direct and indirect relationships between GHRM and various facets of organizational performance is essential to meet the demands of sustainability. The aim of this paper is to conduct a… Read More

Cooperatives: A Historical and Theoretical Perspective

The history of cooperatives is often presented in two phases: first, as an immature initial phase characterized by failed utopian attempts, followed by a mature one, in which a more established status was obtained, allowing a progressive development. This narrative is too linear and evolutionist. So, I would like to… Read More

Andrea Bernardi, Massimiliano Mazzanti, Salvatore Monni (Eds.): Innovations for Circularity and Knowledge Creation: Participation and Cooperative Approaches for Sustainability

The book Innovations for Circularity and Knowledge Creation: Participation and Cooperative Approaches for Sustainability, edited by Andrea Bernardi, Massimiliano Mazzanti, and Salvatore Monni, offers an essential contribution to the discourse on sustainable economics. It examines the unique role of cooperative models in advancing circular economy practices, emphasizing practical applications over… Read More

Integral Cooperatives as Prefigurative Organizations: Towards a Commons-Based Development Model

Integral cooperatives, as non-profit democratic enterprises that can accommodate any sector of activity, have been multiplying throughout Portuguese territory in the last few years in response to sequential crises, worsening of life conditions, and the realization that the capitalist system is at their root. These commons-based organizations prefigure an alternative… Read More

A Path-Dependence Analysis of Italian Social and Community Cooperatives

In Italy, cooperatives emerged as a key vehicle for solving problems. As these problems evolved, so did the cooperative identity. Path-dependence analysis is a methodological approach that seeks to explain discontinuous processes by means of notions like inertia, incorporating both contingent and reactive processes and events. A literature based on… Read More