The European social model has always been characterized by the active role played in the production of goods and services by a variety of organizations that differ both from private corporations and public institutions. These are private organizations that, while active on the market, typically...

The Social Economy is increasingly attracting the interest of policy makers and scholars alike, thanks to its capacity to tackle key social and economic issues. While the importance of the Social Economy has been recognised by the EU, its role in supporting local development in other continents...

Italian social enterprises are not a new topic in literature. Several aspects e.g. theoretical frameworks, quality of work and job satisfaction, networking strategies, and the impact of the recent financial crisis, have been studied from many different perspectives in the last twenty years. Most...

Italian abstract: A partire da una ricostruzione dei principali limiti degli attuali sistemi di welfare locale, nel paper vengono approfonditi gli elementi alla base di un diverso modello di sanità territoriale, fondato sull’integrazione fra ambiti sociale e sanitario e sulla partecipazione...

This report summarises the findings of the project 'Benchmarking the socio-economic performance of the EU social economy'. Across the 27 Member States, the social economy includes more than 4.3 million entities1. Social economy entities are mainly cooperatives, mutual benefit societies,...

The collected volume edited by Peter Utting with chapters by Suzanne Bergeron, Stephen Healy, Carina Millstone, Bénédicte Fonteneau, Georgina Gómez, Marguerite Mendell, Paul Nelson, John-Justin McMurtry, Cecilia Rossel, Abhijit Ghosh, Ananya Mukherjee-Reed, JeanLouis Laville, Justine...

Dieser Bericht fasst die Ergebnisse des Projekts "Benchmarking der sozioökonomischen Leistung der EU-Sozialwirtschaft (Ausschreibung EISMEA/2022/OP/00159 Los 1)". In dieser Studie wird das sozioökonomische Gewicht des Ökosystems "Sozialwirtschaft" und sein Beitrag zu einer nachhaltigen,...

This report summarises findings of the project 'Benchmarking the socio-economic performance of the EU social economy', (Call for tenders EISMEA/2022/OP/00159 Lot 1). This study assesses the socioeconomic weight of the 'Proximity and Social Economy' ecosystem and its contribution to a...

The focus on achieving financial efficiency by microfinance institutions in recent years raises a natural concern on their social outcome, outreach to the poor. Using a stochastic frontier approach on sample microfinance providers in Ethiopia, this paper analysed the effect of an increasingly...