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 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...

Nel dibattito economico si possono individuare tre filoni interpretativi delle motivazioni della nascita dell'impresa cooperativa. Il primo vede nella cooperativa un'impresa generalmente meno efficiente dell'impresa di capitali (perche' manca lo stimolo del profitto) e che puo' avere una qualche...

Il saggio si propone di studiare la struttura organizzativa, cioè l’integrazione tra imprese sviluppata dalla cooperazione sociale in Italia nel corso dei suoi trent’anni di storia. Accanto a una rappresentanza politico-sindacale il movimento della cooperazione sociale ha sentito il bisogno...

Il paper propone una stima del ruolo economico del sistema cooperativo in provincia di Trento che tiene conto non solo del contributo diretto alla produzione di reddito, ma anche della produzione e dell’occupazione attivate in imprese diverse da quelle cooperative. Oltre al valutare l'impatto...

Institutional and organizational variety is increasingly characterising advanced economic systems. While traditional economic theories have focussed almost exclusively on profit-maximizing (i.e. for-profit) enterprises and on publicly-owned organizations, the increasing relevance of non-profit...

he role of cooperative and social enterprises in contemporary market economies has been downplayed and marginalised to date by the dominant economic approaches. This insufficient attention (Kalmi, 2008 su Cambridge Journal of Economics) derives from the limited applicability of the main...

Diversity matters, both at the firm and at the macro-economic level. This is the driving mission of JEOD. While the importance of diversity is already quite well recognized in other disciplines as a major source of wellbeing and quality of life, an open discussion on diversity in economics...

Euricse participated in the “Progetto Donne Lavoro” (Women and Work Project) launched by the magazine Donna Moderna and the Vodafone Foundation Italy. The objective of the contest was to reward a female social enterprise offering an opportunity for empowerment and social promotion through...