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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

Advancing the Theory of Cooperative Organization: Interrogating the Developing Country Perspectives

This paper attempts to theorize producers’ cooperatives as an organizational form in the context of developing countries, by using Williamson’s approach of comparative economic organizations. The idea of composite efficiency has been introduced here, by bringing in the notion of distributional efficiency. Detailed theorization of different types of organizations following… Read More

Social and Relational Variables in Worker Cooperatives: Implications for the Objective Function

Traditional economic theory is focussed on a particular type of firm profit maximisation in which labour is a production factor and its social characteristics are not considered. However, in interpersonal relationships, even those in the workplace, identity and sociality play a role in workforce productivity and can change the objective… Read More

Exploring the History of the First Social Enterprise Type: Social Co-Operation in the Italian Welfare System and its Replication in Europe, 1970s to 2011

“Social enterprise” is an umbrella term that covers a broad range of organisations, which differ to a greater or lesser extent in their visibility, scope and dissemination, in the various countries, but which share the explicit pursuit of social objectives, in the world of business and in an on-going manner,… Read More

Dennis R. Young, Elizabeth A.M. Searing, and Cassady Brewer (Ed.): The Social Enterprise Zoo: A Guide for Perplexed Scholars, Entrepreneurs, Philanthropists, Leaders, Investors, and Policymakers

Dennis Young, Elizabeth Searing, and Cassady Brewer’s The Social Enterprise Zoo: A Guide for Perplexed Scholars, Entrepreneurs, Philanthropists, Leaders, Investors, and Policymakers will prove to be a foundational work in nonprofit and social innovation studies, as so much of Dennis Young’s work does. Among the many achievements of this edited… Read More

ISCTE-IUL 2019 International Conference: Social Solidarity Economy and the Commons – Contributions to the Deepening of Democracy

The second edition of the international conference dedicated to the social and solidarity economy (SSE) and the commons was organised by the Centre for International Studies (CEI-IUL), with the support of the Department of Political Economy at ISCTE-IUL, the Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes (cE3c) in the Faculty… Read More

The Knowledge-based Agricultural Cooperative: A Validation from the Trentino Case

The new agri-food market is considered a detrimental factor for the competitiveness and financial equilibria of agricultural cooperatives. According to this view, as a result of market saturation and globalisation processes, shifting investments to supply chain forward activities (e.g., for brand development or for research and development activities) would represent… Read More