During the last years, the regeneration of spaces and buildings inside cities has become an important issue, which involves public governments, private actors and the third sector. The failure of neoliberal market-oriented models, as a tool against social exclusion, has led to the re-thinking of...

The Italian version of this paper can be found at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2220272 Un primer balance del Año Internacional del Cooperativismo evidencia como las formas de la economía cooperativa sean plurales, amplias y de larga duración. A estos rasgos distintivos se debe la particular...

Using a stochastic frontier approach, we analyse the imposition of financial sustainability requirement on the traditional social mission of microfinance – outreach to the poor. We also address whether the way ownership is organised and practiced affects the costs of microfinance delivery....

The community cooperatives that are spreading today in many parts of the world are the arrival point of an evolutionary process which has seen the progressive shift of cooperatives’ focus from specific social and professional groups to society as a whole. This evolution is marked by two...

The paper aims to study the organizational structure, namely the integration developed among social cooperatives in Italy over their thirty years of history. In addition to organizing political and trade union representation, the social cooperation movement has felt the need to develop a system...

Italian Abstract: L’effettivo ruolo economico delle cooperative, in generale e a livello settoriale, è spesso sottovalutato e non compreso appieno. Ciò è vero anche per le cooperative operanti nel settore agricolo. Infatti tra I numerosi commenti sulla recente e particolarmente positiva...

The study focused on describing and analysing the integrated approach to agricultural cooperative marketing in Uganda: the tripartite cooperative model. It was found that structural changes and successful growth have been achieved within the agricultural cooperative marketing system. This model...

This research, conducted with the traditional method of financial ratios, analyzes the economic and financial performance registered by 30 workers cooperatives operating in the field of services in 2009-2011. Cooperatives under investigation are of average size (turnover between 30 and 50...

Using household survey data from Ethiopia, this paper evaluates the impact of agricultural cooperatives on smallholders' technical efficiency. We utilize propensity score matching to compare the average difference in technical efficiency between cooperative farmers and similar independent...

I cambiamenti intervenuti nella regolamentazione e nel mercato bancario hanno inevitabilmente attenuato i caratteri distintivi originari delle banche di credito cooperativo (BCC) e inasprito la concorrenza tra queste e le altre categorie di intermediari creditizi. A ciò hanno contribuito la...