Do cooperative enterprises create social trust?

Fabio Sabatini, Francesca Modena and Ermanno Tortia

This paper contributes to the literature by carrying out the first empirical investigation into the role of different types of enterprises in the creation of social trust. Drawing on a unique dataset collected through the administration of a questionnaire to a representative sample of the population of the Italian Province of Trento in March 2011, we find that cooperatives are the only type of enterprise where the work environment fosters the social trust of workers.

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Year of publication:	[2012]
Authors:	Sabatini, Fabio ; Modena, Francesca ; Tortia, Ermanno
Publisher:	Brussels, Belgium : EERI, Economics and Econometrics Research Institute
Subject:	Cooperative enterprises \| nonprofit organizations \| trust \| social capital \| motivations \| inclusive governance \| work organization \| Sozialkapital \| Social capital \| Nonprofit-Organisation \| Nonprofit organization \| Vertrauen \| Confidence \| Genossenschaft \| Cooperative \| Sozialwirtschaft \| Social economy \| Kooperation \| Cooperation

Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (circa 30 Seiten)
Series:	EERI research paper series. - Brussels : EERI, ISSN 2031-4892, ZDB-ID 2861229-2. - Vol. no 2012/10
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper ; Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/142639 [Handle]
Classification:	L31 - Nonprofit Institutions ; L33 - Comparison of Public and Private Enterprises; Privatization; Contracting Out ; P13 - Cooperative Enterprises ; Z1 - Cultural Economics ; Z13 - Social Norms and Social Capital
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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