This article analyses the role of social economy in the regulation of three basic issues in economy: the supply of goods and services, the labour market and the capital market. The author’s approach is of a dynamic and socio-economic nature and takes as a reference the French situation. Once...

The expression “co-operative” used in its habitual current form is over 50 years old. However, it is not exaggerated to declare that nowadays in this society we are still looking at a new concept under development and hence not shaped definitively. This paper offers an up to date, summarised...

In this study we endeavour to expose the falseness of a certain sense of underlying inferiority in the company model advocated by the social economy. We will do so by describing and analysing certain “recent” management trends whose origins run from the end of the Second World War to the...

The paper reveals a relevant dimension of social economy in Europe: cooperatives. Like many other types of enterprise, cooperatives face the challenge of finding the most efficient means to distribute insufficient resources. But contrasting most other enterprises, cooperatives also need to seek...

Social innovation that has been characterized as internal or external intervention action –arising from people in need or from those who want to help–, social development –improving the welfare or social cohesion– that, through an original change in the provision of a service or...

Economic literature first turned its attention to the co-operative movement in the period of the flowering of classical political economics. From then on and to the present day, co-operatives have aroused the interest of the different currents of economic thought. In this article we review the...

The objective of social and vocational integration is directly linked to local development and local employment initiatives, as part of which a number of agents are actively engaged in the integration process, namely employment and local development agents. These agents target their resources...

There are different policies for equality in employment, different “equality plans”, different guidelines, etc. at various levels (European, national, Autonomous Community, etc.) which aim to reduce inequality between men and women in labour matters, such as wages, employment rates, etc....

During the period 1808-1936, the liberal state dismantled the old system of religious charity belonging to the Ancien Régime, replacing it with public charity, conceived as a welfare instrument given the social risks represented by poverty, and as a means of controlling and converting the poor...