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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

Social Network Analysis at the 2021 Annual Conference of the Italian Society for Economic Sociology (SISEC)

The Italian Society for Economic Sociology (SISEC) is a national association that aims to represent Italy-based scholars in economic sociology, the sociology of work and labour markets, and the sociology of organisations. Its last two conferences included rich and highly participated sessions on applications of Social Network Analysis (SNA). In… Read More

COVID-19, Co-production and Governance of Japanese Healthcare Providers

The COVID-19 pandemic underlines the importance of citizen support for and compliance with public health goals. This paper explores the contribution of governance to the staff’s work environment, and patient participation in public financed healthcare services. More staff control over their daily work-life tasks will promote greater work satisfaction; in… Read More

Scaling Co-operatives Through a Multi-Stakeholder Network: A Case Study in the Colorado Solar Energy Industry

A new generation of co-operative businesses has struggled to identify pathways to transformative scale in their industries. This case study analyses a multi-stakeholder network of single-stakeholder co-ops that emerged in the Colorado solar energy industry that could be a replicable model for scaling co-operative businesses despite challenges of capital access. Read More

Does the Share of Female Managers Affect the Firm’s Geographic Spread? Evidence from the UK

The present article aims to add a new thread on the debate of gender quota by assessing gender diversity in senior managerial positions. We utilise UK data drawn from the 2011 Workplace Employment Relations Study (WERS6), the latest survey in the WERS series, to examine the former association.  The use… Read More

Victor Pestoff: Co-production and Japanese Healthcare: Work Environment, Governance, Service Quality and Social Values

A growing interest in healthcare, and particularly in the management of social and healthcare services, is currently emerging in both academic and applied fields. More in general, the societal and economical changes of the last decades are increasingly questioning the available models applied in the structuring and administering of public… Read More

CIRIEC World Conference in Latin America: Social and Solidarity Economy as an Inclusive, Sustainable and Resilient Development Model in a Post-COVID-19 World

Most Latin American countries bring the theme of regional integration into their respective Constitutions, keeping Simon Bolívar’s dream of Pátria Grande alive. This dream, considering the complex geopolitical and geoeconomic relations of today, results in a series of economic, social and political challenges for the whole of Latin America and… Read More

Social Enterprises and COVID-19: Navigating between Difficulty and Resilience

The spread of COVID-19 and the consequent restrictive measures that became necessary in the first months of 2020 hit Italy hard. With this research, summarised here and published in the IV Iris Network report on social enterprises in Italy, the authors investigate COVID-19’s impact on social enterprises, the behaviours of… Read More