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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

Ontologies of Employee Ownership: A Comparative Analysis of Trust-Owned, Directly-Owned and Cooperatively-Owned Enterprises

Each academic discipline wrestles with framing objects of study within its field. This paper is a reflexive analysis of the ontology of employee ownership (EO) and employee-owned businesses (EOBs) based on ten cases from two PhDs and two post-doctoral studies. We found that normative definitions of EO not only fail… Read More

Exploring Local Dynamics of COVID-19 in Italy: Local Labour Markets and the Cases of Bergamo and Brescia

In containing and mitigating the diffusion of COVID-19, countries are not fully able to pursue local test, trace and isolate strategies due to difficulties in detecting place-based infections and positive asymptomatic cases. This paper explores whether and to what extent local labour markets, functional areas defined by employment self-containment indexes… Read More

Entrepreneurial Intermediation in Innovation: A Study of Multilayered Contexts and Embedded Dynamics of Organisation-Creation

The article is based on a theoretical exploration and empirical analysis of formalized public initiated instruments—eight network entrepreneurs—intended to promote, intermediate and support innovation and entrepreneurship in firms and firm networks located in three different business areas in Mid-Norway: food value chain, experience industries, and renewable energy and environmental technology. Read More

Eric Bidet and Jacques Defourny (Eds.): Social Enterprise in Asia: Theory, Models and Practice

Eric Bidet and Jacques Defourny’s edited book Social Enterprise in Asia: Theory, Models, and Practice is by far the most comprehensive and extensive scholarly collaboration on social enterprises and social economy in Asia. This book covers multiple sub-Asian regions (East, South, and Southeast Asia) and seven comprehensive Asian country chapters… Read More

Academy of Korean Studies International Conference: Reciprocity in Comparison: Spain, Vietnam, Italy, and Korea

On October 29th, 2020, the Academy of Korean Studies in South Korea held an international conference online. The title of the conference was “Reciprocity in Comparison: Spain, Vietnam, Italy, and Korea”. The research presented was wide-ranging, very relevant to cooperative enterprises, which comprise a large and growing sector of social… Read More

The Usefulness of Sharing Social Impact Data. Early Findings from an International Benchmarking on SROI Assessments

This paper aims at investigating a perspective for the social impact measurability by collecting and analysing open data at the international level. Our goal is to shed light on the unlocked potential of the knowledge produced by a global community of scholars and practitioners engaged in social impact measurement processes. Read More