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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

Relationships on the Job and Work-Related Stress within the Third Sector in Europe

The aim of the study is to analyse the association between occupational stress and interpersonal relationships on the job for non-profit workers in Europe. The main assumption of the paper is that social support coming from interpersonal relationships on the job may counteract stress caused by adverse working conditions. The… Read More

Management Education in a Public University in the Economic Periphery: Reflections in Action on UBC in Interior British Columbia

Significant changes in university organisation over recent years have often ignored important challenges concerning the consequences for social and economic development. This paper explores different ways of organising universities. It examines a particular question: what should management education in a public university in the economic periphery entail? The paper relies… Read More

The Annual Conference of the Italian Society for Law and Economics (ISLE)

The Italian Society for Law and Economics (ISLE) is a national association, but ranks among the largest Law and Economics associations worldwide and each year receives visiting delegates from several European and non-European countries during its annual conference. The 2018 ISLE edition of the conference was held at the University… Read More

Structure and performance of Italian cooperatives: a quantitative analysis based on combined use of official data

Researchers and policymakers have identified the need to accurately and quantitatively evaluate cooperatives and their economic, social and employment effects, as well as their evolution over time, in a way that is as reliable as possible and not subject to interpretation. This need was also manifested in the adoption by… Read More