A growing body of literature has started to study the impact of social capital on local development, according to Putnam's(1993) hypothesis. In this paper I focus on Italian provinces and try to relate the diffusion of social cooperatives to value added per capita. To tackle the issue of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the perceptions of senior accounting officers on governance, performance and accountability issues in the charity sector. Design/methodology/approach – The empirical data presented in this paper were collected via a mail‐out survey to Chief...

PPurpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the perceptions of senior accounting officers on governance, performance and accountability issues in the charity sector. Design/methodology/approach – The empirical data presented in this paper were collected via a mail-out survey to Chief...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to evaluate critically the extensively used social versus commercial entrepreneurship dualism that depicts these as entirely discrete realms possessing distinct and separate logics. Design/methodology/approach – To challenge this dichotomous representation...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the funding criteria adopted by funding organisations (FOs) in New Zealand. Design/methodology/approach – The naturalistic inquiry paradigm is applied and qualitative interview data were collected using semi‐structured interviews....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the funding criteria adopted by funding organisations (FOs) in New Zealand. Design/methodology/approach – The naturalistic inquiry paradigm is applied and qualitative interview data were collected using semi-structured interviews....