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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

Social Enterprises and Welfare Systems. The Role of Multi-stakeholder Governance and Price Discrimination

Social enterprises (SEs) have been active for some decades and have been regulated by law in several countries. Their operation showed ability to complement the provision of welfare services, especially social services, by the public sector and private enterprises, and to innovate in the introduction of new services, organizational and… Read More

Cultural Third Sector Organizations and Local Development: New Actors and Tools for Urban Regeneration in Deprived Contexts

The importance of the creative and cultural capital in the economic development of post industrial inner cities has been widely demonstrated by urban development literature as it interacts with the physical environment and sustains regeneration processes. However, also in depressed and peripheral neighbourhoods, creative firms, museums, nonprofit organizations, cultural associations,… Read More

Janelle A. Kerlin (Ed.): Shaping Social Enterprise: Understanding Institutional Context and Influence

Over the last two decades, social enterprise (SE) has received increasing attention from policymakers, practitioners and scholars, who have explored this phenomenon from various angles. The comparative analysis of SEs across countries represents one of the newest avenues of research (Kerlin, 2010; 2013). While essential steps forwards have been made… Read More

Empower-SE COST Action International Research Workshop: Towards and enabling ecosystem for social enterprises

The Research Workshop “Towards an enabling ecosystem for social enterprises”, organized within the framework of the COST Action “Empowering the next generation of social enterprise scholars” (Empower-SE)1 was held at the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Sociology and Social Work in February 2020. The event was built around research results… Read More