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The Annual Conference of the World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research (WINIR)

This conference letter provides an overview of the 10th edition of the Worldwide Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research (WINIR) conference, held in Prague in September 2025. The conference focused on the role of entrepreneurship in driving prosperity across society and on the importance of institutional frameworks in enabling entrepreneurs to… Read More

Participatory Governance: Comparing Cooperatives in Different Sectors, Settings and Cultures

The hybrid nature of cooperatives and their pursuit of multiple goals make them interesting for economics, political science and sociology. This contribution explores their ability to enter the space left by a retreating state by cooperativizing, rather than privatizing the provision of social and welfare services. It compares three books… Read More

Social Sustainability in Family Farms: The Case of Apples Production in South Tyrol

This article explores the interplay between family farming and social sustainability in South Tyrol’s apple sector. Drawing on a mixed-method approach—including secondary data from Raiffeisen Verband, a survey of 116 farmers, and two in-depth case studies—the article reveals a nuanced picture of resilience and transformation in a region where over… Read More

Female Leaders’ Conception of a Career in UK Finance and Their Self-Concept: Implications for Organisational Diversity

Despite decades of legislation and corporate initiatives, women remain underrepresented in UK financial leadership, with implications for organisational diversity, legitimacy, and inclusion. While structural barriers are well documented, less attention has been paid to how women’s self-concept and internalised understandings of legitimacy and success shape their leadership journeys in male-dominated… Read More

Confronting Development Barriers to Solve News-Market Failures: Theorizing Constraints, Resources, and Strategies For Worker Co-Operatives in the News-Sector

In an age of widespread news-market failures, can worker co-operators succeed where others have not? It’s difficult to say because co-operative studies scholars have long neglected news-markets. Rather, the news-industry’s structural crisis has only recently begun to bring worker co-operation’s role into focus. This paper therefore uses the five-barriers theory… Read More

Editorial

The editorial marks the beginning of the author’s tenure as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Entrepreneurial and Organizational Diversity (JEOD) in July 2025. It emphasizes the robustness of the journal’s existing editorial structure and the strong continuity between the current editorial direction and the vision established by previous… Read More

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