The purpose of this article is to explore the relationship that arose in Italy between local financial systems and local production systems in the period of the country’s post-war reconstruction, when it rejoined the trajectories of modern economic development. This will be done by verifying...

The last years have witnessed a wide reshaping of the banking scene, the aftermath of which includes an increased risk of operative downsizing of the banking system towards certain customer segmentations, marginal areas and activities. Recently the banking scene has deteriorated, especially at...

Negli ultimi anni si è assistito ad un profondo cambiamento dello scenario nel sistema bancario. Secondo quanto gli studiosi del settore e le autorità affermano, una delle principali conseguenze di questi cambiamenti è l’aumento della segmentazione delle classi di clientela e della...

Credit is indubitably one of the most important sectors in which the supply of goods and services by cooperatives has arisen. Given the importance of the role of cooperative banks in the development of other sectors and of the territories or communities in which they operate, and the economic...

Uno dei settori più rilevanti dove si è affermata l’offerta cooperativa è senza dubbio quello del credito. Se consideriamo l’importanza del suo ruolo, per lo sviluppo degli altri settori e dei territori e delle comunità ove opera, ed il potere economico e politico che di conseguenza esso...

The last years have witnessed a wide reshaping of the banking scene. According to researchers and authorities, the aftermath of these developments include an increased risk of demarketing of the conventional banking system towards certain customer segmentations and marginal areas and activities....

This paper investigates the motivation behind economic behaviour in the cooperative credit movement, and some of the inherent problems. In particular, the following hypotheses are analysed: the possibility of maintaining the principles of reciprocity and participation in the case of rapid growth...

Many changes occurred in the last years in the economic and social framework make this question quite actual. This special issue argues that the new reality created by the great financial crisis has fostered cooperative banks’ development — at least at local level — and allowed them to...

Credit is indubitably one of the most important sectors in which the supply of goods and services by cooperatives has arisen. Given the importance of the role of cooperative banks in the development of other sectors and of the territories or communities in which they operate, and the economic...

The last years have witnessed a wide reshaping of the banking scene. According to researchers and authorities, the aftermath of these developments include an increased risk of demarketing of the conventional banking system towards certain customer segmentations and marginal areas and activities....