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Enrica Chiappero Martinetti (Ed.): La sfida dell’uguaglianza. Democrazia economica e futuro del capitalismo [The challenge of equality. Economic democracy and the future of capitalism]

The first two decades of the 2000s were marked by economic upheavals that intensified existing problems and created new fractures and tensions, leading to unprecedented global economic, social, and geopolitical imbalances. While there have been profound transformations in economic and social systems, such as the digital and technological revolution and… Read More

Doing Transdisciplinary Action Research: A Critical Assessment of an Italian Lab-Like Sustainable Food Initiative

The food system nowadays has proven to be unsustainable from the ecological and social points of view and the need of supporting food security and sustainability through local, short-supply chain food systems is manifest. Against this background, several municipalities all over the world have started to establish multi-stakeholder collaborative roundtables… Read More

How Do Cooperatives Support Their Members in Managing Aquaculture Risks? The Case Study of the Northern Coastal Provinces of Vietnam

Millions of Vietnamese farmers seek their livelihoods in aquaculture; however, they face multiple risks in their daily farming practices. Notably, some of these risks cannot be effectively managed by individual farmers because they are beyond their individual capabilities. This is why cooperatives can play a crucial role in effectively addressing… Read More

Entrepreneuring in Diverse Neighbourhoods: Policies and Minority Business in Copenhagen, Istanbul, Milan and Warsaw

Recent literature claims that minority entrepreneurship is changing, e.g., entering non-ethnic sectors. A change partly related to spatial transformations (such as gentrification) in neighbourhoods where minorities are settled and to policies affecting their ventures. This article aims to disentangle how targeted and general policies affect minority entrepreneurship in neighbourhoods characterised… Read More

Morris Altman, Anthony Jensen, Akira Kurimoto, Robby Tulus, Yashavantha Dongre and Seungkwon Jang (Eds.): Waking the Asian Pacific Co-operative Potential

“Is it possible to identify a regional cooperative model (or models) of the Asia Pacific region?” With 23 case studies across 11 countries and four cooperative sectors (agricultural cooperatives, consumer cooperatives, credit cooperatives and worker cooperatives), the 44 authors of Waking the Asian Pacific Co-operative Potential boldly try to answer… Read More

15th International Conference of the International Society for Third-Sector Research (ISTR)

The International Society for Third-Sector Research (ISTR) is a major international association promoting research and education in the fields of civil society, philanthropy, and the nonprofit sector. Founded in 1992, ISTR has spent thirty years building a global community of scholars while also raising the awareness of the Third Sector… Read More

The Influence of Board Diversity and Board Conflict on Performance in Consumer Cooperatives in South Korea

Board of directors are important elements in the structure and management of cooperatives. This study examines the relationships between cooperative board diversity (i.e., value and functional) and three performance variables (social performance, operational performance, and democratic performance). Additionally, we hypothesize that conflict (task or relational) mediates these relationships. We argue… Read More

Participatory Bureaucracy: Addressing Gender Inequality in Worker Cooperatives

Worker cooperatives – firms owned and governed by their workers – have experimented with organizational structure in aid of greater equality. Gender theorists and cooperativists have argued that bureaucracy produces inequality, but bureaucracy has also demonstrably reduced organizational inequality. By unpacking “bureaucracy,” both discrete and mutually reinforcing effects of authority… Read More

Challenges to the Development of Work Integration Social Enterprises in Latvia

Social entrepreneurship is becoming increasingly popular in Latvia because it allows enterprises to implement economic activities while tackling social problems relevant to society. Since 2018, when the Social Enterprise Law was introduced, the number of registered social enterprises has reached 195 (in 2021). Work integration is the most common field… Read More

David Ellerman: Neo-Abolitionism: Abolishing Human Rentals in Favor of Workplace Democracy

This is a review of Professor David Ellerman’s book Neo-Abolitionism: Abolishing Human Rentals in Favor of Workplace Democracy, a recent book that is the result of several decades of the author’s theoretical elaboration. The book deals with the reintroduction of jurisprudence in basic microeconomic theory and reinterpretation of its basic… Read More